285:. There was international interest in the system, provided by Northern Computers, with requests from countries such as Australia, New Zealand and Iceland, among others. As well as offering word processing and computing courses, it also facilitated data transfer between the school's split sites and could be used as an electronic mail system. Headteacher Peter Middleton planned to introduce computers to every student at the school with the aim for "every child to be computer literate".
240:. The school throughout its history was based across several sites, until it ultimately closed in 2009 following amalgamation with a newly built Litherland High School. The school is notable as being the first in Britain to install an Amstrad computer network which facilitated learning and communication between the school's then split sites.
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