FRED Longworth High School has won the New Statesman magazine's New Media Award for Best Secondary School ICT Project.
Information Computer Technology is used throughout the Tyldesley school, including smartboard technology.
The school uses Open Source software, selecting StarOffice over the Microsoft equivalent.
Judges were impressed by the overall efforts and imagination used to integrate technology into the teaching environment. They noted that canny procurement made the limited ICT budget go further and enabled the purchase of other technology, an idea that could be replicated by other schools.
The success follows that of near neighbours St Ambrose Barlow, at Astley judged best in the primary school category last year and is another feather in the cap for head Tony Colley, web designer and ICT whiteboard technician Andy Davis and his support team of Adrian Sharpe and Andy Palin.
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