We have invested heavily in modern technology in partnership with BAE SYSTEMS and the School is now able to offer outstanding facilities, which are second to none. BAE SYSTEMS has chosen Kirkham Grammar School as an International Centre for Technology, effectively the flagship within its extensive Schools’ Network. The Confederation of British Industry has also recognised the school as a training centre. We feel confident, therefore, that our provision in this crucial area of the curriculum is the best on offer and that the school is very much at the leading edge of technological progress.

Most, though not all, of the School’s technology is housed in a superb new Technology Centre, to which we have recently added a Languages Centre. These splendid new buildings mirror on the outside the traditional face of the school, yet within they contain the latest technology in the most modern of settings. There are over one hundred computers, networked and connected to the Internet.

There are facilities for computer assisted design and manufacture, multi-media manufacturing, video-conferencing, systems and control engineering, robotics, pneumatics and electronics. There are three separate ICT suites: one dedicated to the teaching of ICT, the second a bookable resource, equipped with inter-active whiteboard, and a third for the teaching of languages.

Technology is an integral part of the school curriculum from the first year. ICT and Design Technology are offered as options at both GCSE and A-level. Computer skills courses are offered to pupils, staff and parents. Boarders have their own network of computers, with access to the Internet, within the Boarding House, and there is a further ICT resource to serve the science and mathematics departments. There is access to computers within the Sixth Form Centre and several departments have their own computers within their departmental bases.

Not surprisingly, the Technology Centre at Kirkham Grammar School has received International recognition as one of the foremost resources of its kind in education. Government ministers and students from across the world regularly visit the school, as links are forged with a growing number of schools abroad.