teenagers. The school produced a "Bully Buster" advice website which was featured on BBC South Today after it received recognition from both the police and its feeder schools. Littlehampton College The school had a separate sixth form college building which was located within the school grounds, to the west of the main buildings. It was a semi-autonomous community college in which the school maintained control. The college offered a range of qualifications, including AS and A2 A-Levels, GCSEs and BTEC awards. It maintained strong links with the school through various methods, such as college students became involved in several lower-school events, particularly creative ones and other drama department productions. It provided a range of events and programmes, both educational and social that students could participate in. For example, it had a college committee which was responsible for making student's feelings heard, improving the general college environment and organising the various social events. A volunteering organisation known as 'OUTSET', which was part of 'V'; the government run scheme where students could offer their time to local projects and organisations in order to work towards nationally recognised certificates. As the college was maintained by the school, its Business and Enterprise specialist status was incorporated into the college. It ran three Roddick Conferences throughout the year in order to mark their specialist status. These conferences ranged from a day in business events entitled 'Suited & Booted', a day of volunteering in the local community called 'Day of Action', a global and environmental awareness day entitled 'One World', and a film festival and showcase – 'Room 5 Film Festival'. It was named after Anita Roddick, a supporter of the school. Proposed academy The proposal of an academy in Littlehampton was first made in 2007, shortly after the school lost out to Bognor Regis Community College in the bidding for a full rebuild under the Building Schools for the Future programme. Shortly afterwards, the school, West Sussex County Council and Woodard Schools signed an agreement to turn the school into an academy, alongside two other establishments in West Sussex. The DCSF quickly accepted the submitted 'expressions of interest', and asked LCS to develop a feasibility study, moving the development of an academy much closer. An early suggestion proposed during the feasibility study was to name the new institution after Dame Anita Roddick, a long-time supporter of the school, who had recently died. This suggestion was