the school in 1975. In October 2020, it was announced that the school would merge with Bablake School, with the combined school is set to open in September 2021. The proposed new school was initially named Coventry School, before backlash from parents and staff led to Bablake and King Henry VIII School being chosen. Le Fousseau In 1991 Le Logis de Fousseau, a manor house in the French Department of Mayenne, was donated to the Foundation by Mr Bill Boucher for the use and benefit of the pupils of the Foundation. Le Fousseau is around 15 km from Fougères. The border with Brittany is only a few kilometres to the west and that of Normandy some 20 km to the north. The chateau was typically used for residential trips by students practising French. With effect from September 2012, the school no longer made use of Le Fousseau. The Coventry School Foundation took the decision in 2012 to sell the property. Publicity King Henry VIII School's swimming pool was shown in a BMW ad starring Rebecca Adlington. In 2017 a large scale advertising campaign was launched by the Senior School in the Coventry and West Midlands area in an attempt to attract new, external, enthusiastic students. Controversies Debee Ashby, a teenage glamour model was expelled from the school in 1983 after topless Page 3 pictures were published. Former headmaster, Terence James Vardon, left his position after pleading guilty to three charges of possessing indecent images of children between 1989 and April 1999. In 1999, John Skermer, a senior teacher was also convicted of taking and possessing photographs of naked boys. A teacher at the school, James Anstice, admitted to a charge of causing criminal damage in 2004 costing £2,500 by destroying a nativity scene at Madame Tussauds featuring David and Victoria Beckham. In 2012, two pupils were expelled over allegations they sold drugs to other children; three other students were suspended for a term. In March 2021, local press reported that the school's systems were infiltrated by an "international cyber crime organisation known to the FBI" and reported that "the organisation responsible did post personal data stolen from the school's system online". Former headmasters Thomas Sherwyn BA (Oxon) Leonard Cox BA (Cantab) MA (Oxon), 1572–1599 John Tovey MA (Oxon), 1599–1602 Jeremiah Arnold, MA (Oxon) MA (Cantab), 1602–1611 James Cranford, 1611–1627 Philemon Holland MD (Cantab) MA (Oxon), 1628–1629 Phineas White BA (Cantab),