It was a school that prided itself on close relationships between staff and pupils.
Parents sent their children there safe in the knowledge that teaching levels were "increasingly outstanding" – and UK's Ofsted credited the close bond between teachers and staff as the reason for high GSCE pass rates.
But amid the teachers striving to give youngsters the best start in life, lurked one man with very different, and very sinister motives.
Paedophile Sam Bradley, 23, exploited the relaxed environment to groom three girls for his s*xual gratification – the youngest just 14.
He preyed on the teenage infatuation with social media to persuade two girls to send him inappropriate mobile phone snaps – while having a full blown affair with a third who had recently left school.
Bradley also regularly sent the girls indecent pictures of himself and talked the 14-year-old into sending him phone videos of herself performing s*x acts.
Last month justice caught up with the vile teaching assistant and he was jailed for three years.
One girl was just 14 when Bradley first contacted her on Facebook and the other was 15.
Both girls looked visibly upset as they told their stories and it dawned on them that Bradley had used almost exactly the same methods to groom them both.
- Mirror
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