hall, formerly the Mecca Bingo Hall on Liverpool Road, which is open for public use as well as to the students. There are seven laboratories, two workshops and a library. In 2004 a new Sixth Form Centre was built, consisting of a new common room (including a cafe and vending machines) and two computer rooms. Until 1987, the college had a smoking room for the use of Sixth Form pupils who were smokers. of playing fields are sited nearby on Little Crosby Road. Academics Exam results consistently exceed national averages achieved by state-funded schools, The school aims to develop the person as a whole, not just academically but in many areas: spiritual, moral, intellectual, physical and cultural. The school song The former School Song, composed in the 1920s by music master Frederick R. Boraston (1878–1954) was sung by former pupils, most notably at the annual Speech Day, which were once held at Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall.The song is written as a march, with repeated crotchet notes in the opening melody. The unusual seven-bar phrases, and alternating major and minor keys, produce a feeling that is at once rousing and wistful. The words anticipate the day we leave school, and the "broad highway of Life" lies before us. We look forward to reaping "a golden harvest not yet sown", but shall "sometimes pause a moment" to think of yesterday, and the old school and its associations will find a place in our hearts "most wondrous kind". Thoughts of games, songs, and the friends we made give way to thanks that the school has taught us wisdom in both thought and deed. In the soaring finale, pupils past and present raise their voices to cheer St Mary's, and wish her long life, with the repeated Latin exclamation Vivat! In the 1980s the song was replaced with a completely new song, with words more in tune with the School's co-educational, lay-teacher status. List of Head-teachers Brother Delaney Brother Thompson Brother Coleman Brother Gibbons Brother Francis Brother Taylor Brother O'Halloran (1972-1987) Brother Ryan (1987-1990) Wilfred Hammond (1990-2003) Jean Marsh (2003-2008) Michael Kennedy (2008–present) Notable former teachers Eugene Genin MBE (1903–1983), music teacher, pupil of Arthur Catterall; former lead violist with the RLPO; played in the pre-1933 Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool; remained a teacher at the college until he was almost 80. Hugh Rank (1913–2006), Viennese-born Jewish teacher of German literature Raymond "Bodge" Boggiano DFC (1920–1985), French