1954

The move to the present site in Hurst Road in 1954. The new site was officially opened in a ceremony led by the Lord Lieutenant of Kent and the Bishop of Rochester.

The new building had been constructed on land once belonging to the manor of Lamorbey House and had once been laid out as a golf course.

The manor house to which the school was now adjacent had been rebuilt in the eighteenth century and by 1950 was housing Rose Bruford College. Chis and Sid's new building was designed by Howard C. Lobb & Partners of Gower Street, in conjunction with the Kent County Architects S. H. Loweth and E. T. Ashley Smith.

Mr Richard "Dick" Pedley was appointed the new headmaster.

As part of the move, in September 1954 it had been decided that the school houses would be renamed as Davies, Edlmann, Williams, Staff, Townshend and Lester, all figures who had played a prominent role in the school's history. The move also saw a change in the school's winter sport from football to rugby, although cricket remained the school's summer sport.