Christopher Roy Bacon, a pensioner who taught at D’Hautree School in the 70’s and 80’s, denies the charges.
It’s claimed the 71-year-old indecently assaulted seven boys aged between 11 and 15 in the old school’s music block between 1979 and 1983.
He also faces a further count of gross indecency on one of the boys, indecently assaulting a teenage girl at a property in St Clement in the early 80’s, and indecently assaulting a nine-year-old boy between 2001 and 2002.
The trial is expected to last two and a half weeks and will start on 29 November. Two half-days, one in June and the other in August have also been set aside for a preliminary hearing.
Mr Bacon is intending to act as his own lawyer and the court now has to decide whether an advocate should be appointed to help him.