When students return to Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys this week, they will find a row of new computers awaiting them.

The school has benefited from a £60,000 grant from the Wolfson Foundation, an independent charity that supports research and education.

It has enabled the school to buy IT equipment for three new computer science laboratories in its teaching centre.

Head teacher Amanda Simpson said: "We are incredibly grateful. Digital literacy is a key skill in today’s world and these three laboratories will not only be for teaching computer science, but also a resource for the whole school in the teaching of STEM pathways, media studies and languages where AI, robotics and specialist technical software is required."

She said: "I am convinced that by providing our ambitious students with the environment that matches their talents, we have the opportunity to bring out the very best in all of them.”

The funding has been used to buy 100 workstations and monitors.

Computer Science and STEM subject teaching puts a strong bias on practical learning to support theoretical understanding, so these workstations have been installed alongside classroom visualisers, which provide teachers with a tool to improve explanations and modelling and reinforce learning.

The school's director of ICT and eLearning, Marc Smith, said: "We are the only grammar school in the area offering computer science for post-16 study and we believe that equipping the new laboratories with fit-for-purpose technology will motivate students to choose the subject at both A level and GCSE."

Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys is the largest boys' grammar school in Kent, with more than 1,300 pupils. It has a co-educational sixth form.

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