the second stage of building works was completed by september 1960. the school then consisted of three blocks; an administrative block with offices, dining hall, assembly hall, library, gymnasium, indoor heated swimming pool and changing rooms; a three-storey block of 22 classrooms (including specialist rooms for history, geography and music); and a practical block consisting of laboratories for general science, physics, chemistry and biology along with rooms for arts, crafts, needlecraft, domestic science, woodwork, technical drawing and metalwork. outside were six hard tennis courts, and a school garden with greenhouse, tool shed and potting shed. there were playing fields and hard areas which could be configured for various outdoor sports.