comedy Big School. Present day The current headmaster is Liam McGillicuddy, who started in September 2019. Previous headteachers are Kim Rowe (2011 to 2019), David Bocock (2004 to 2011), Vincent Hodkinson (1996 to 2004) and Leslie Bather (1970–1996). Bishopshalt School specialises in music and the performing arts. It has its own large playing fields and an ornamental garden specifically for the 6th form students. Bishopshalt has six house system 'houses', five named after bishops that rested at the old mansion, on their first day out from London, going to Worcester in the days of horse-drawn coach travel. Cranmer, De Salis, Evesham, Manor, Stanley and Worcester are the houses. The school motto is Fidelis, meaning 'faithful'. De Salis house was named after a local family that included bishop Charles De Salis and his elder brother Cecil Fane De Salis, who was a benefactor and governor of the school and last owner of the nearby Dawley Court at Goulds Green. Dramatic society Bishopshalt School runs a dramatic society named Bishopshalt Operatic and Dramatic Society, known as BODS. The company is open to students at the school from the tenth to the thirteenth academic year. They perform annually during December. The latest BODS show was- '9 To 5.' The Junior BODS (for years 7,8 and 9) are performed in June/July every year. The latest Junior BODS show was- Moana Jr. Academic performance It gets the third highest A level results in Hillingdon and above average results at GCSE. Bishopshalt also recently won the Hillingdon Maths challenge for Year 7. They have a successful netball and football team as well. Notable former pupils Carla Mendonca, actor Claire Richards, singer Bilal Saeed, philosopher Neil Shipperley, footballer Warren Goodhind, footballer Ryan Watson, actor Bishopshalt Grammar School Lisa Adkins, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney Leslie Clifford Bateman, Malaysian politician Vernon Bogdanor, professor of government at the University of Oxford John Taylor Hughes, Anglican Suffragan bishop of Croydon 1956–1977 and to the Forces 1966–1975 Oswald Morris, cinematographer Bernard Miles, character actor, writer and director Mel Read, Labour MEP for the East Midlands from 1999 to 2004 Nick Simper, Deep Purple bass guitarist R. C. Vaughan, professor of pure mathematics at Imperial College London from 1980 to 1998 and at Penn State University from 1999 John Arthur Watts, Conservative MP for Slough from 1983 to 1997, and Leader of Hillingdon Borough Council