As a result, for example, visits to pupils' assemblies by speakers which were arranged by the previous headteacher have been cancelled indefinitely until procedures are in place".
In assembly, pupils are being treated to a gigantic projection of the weeks remaining until their GCSEs as, just beyond the warm, silent corridors, a long, educationless summer stretches out before them.
Mr Clark told MPs that other incidents included anti-Christian chanting during assemblies, pupils being strongly encouraged to join in the calls to prayers and "segregation issues", which saw boys and girls encouraged to spend less time in each other's company out of the classroom.
For secondary pupils, there is an assembly by TrueTube, a website that provides videos, lesson plans and assembly scripts for RE, PSHE and citizenship students aged 11-18.
Each day started with an assembly for pupils and families, after which the boys would attend lessons and the parents classes in parenting.
After the morning's special assembly, some pupils left the school.
But how different is that from a school that rings a bell ahead of hymn singing in assembly, where pupils are obliged to wear caps or boaters, where the school charity is Christian Aid? "It is vital that we make this distinction between religion on the one hand, and political ideology on the other.
"We don't only recognise him on this day," Thato Williams, a 13-year-old pupil, said during an assembly.
Ms. Lichterman, now retired, was visibly moved by the assembly of former pupils.
A parents meeting was organised on Tuesday with David Hampshire, the Cornwall county adviser for RE for the past 18 years, to explain the aims of the trip, as well as a special assembly for the pupils, she said.
