experiment was Molly Hattersley, a leading socialist. As a part of the continuing debate about comprehensive schools, Creighton School became the subject of a series of articles in the Sunday Times and a subsequent book by Hunter Davies, The Creighton Report, illustrated by an A-Level Photography student at the school and the Sunday Times photojournalist Frank Herrmann. Fortismere School After further reorganisation, Creighton School and another comprehensive, Alexandra Park School, were combined under the new name of Fortismere School. It opened in September 1983. Andrew Nixon, who had been headteacher of Alexandra Park School from 1980-3 prior to the merger, became Fortismere's first headteacher from 1983-2005, and played a major role in the development of the school's liberal and progressive ethos that emphasised pluralism, as well as gaining Technology College status in 1997, which lasted until it became a foundation school. Technology College status helped fund major developments to the school's infrastructure during Nixon's tenure, including construction of a new science block in 1999, a sixth form learning resource centre in 2002, and a county-standard sports hall, tennis courts and artificial pitch in 2004. During Nixon's tenure, the school routinely achieved 70% or more of students attaining five A*-C grade GCSEs, including in English and maths, was ranked among the top 100 non-selective comprehensive schools in the UK, and was noted for "valuing inclusiveness and egalitarianism". He was succeeded by David Jones, who served as interim headteacher in 2005-6, before the appointment of a permanent successor, Aydin Önaç. Önaç, who led the school in a very different direction in his three and a half years as headmaster 2006-9, told the Evening Standard of his contempt for the school's pre-existing ethos: "When I joined in April 2006, I inherited a school held back by an egalitarian mindset that was stuck in the Seventies." Foundation status In the summer of 2006, the school's governors and recently-appointed headteacher Aydin Önaç proposed to change the school's status to that of a foundation school. The governors argued that the increased autonomy from the LEA provided by foundation status would be beneficial to the school, while critics argued that the proposal was an attack on the school's comprehensive nature and would lead to a reduction in provision for pupils with special educational needs. On 1 September 2007, Fortismere became a foundation school – despite opposition from 70 per cent of parents and a petition from students