OpenOffice is a powerful suite of applications which your child will find useful for school. It is compatible with the software versions that we use in school and with the ones that our pupils use at home.
At times, pupils will bring in work that has been written on newer versions of the software that we have in school. It can be time-consuming and to convert these files and there are certain file types that we can't convert.
Openoffice is a free program that runs on machines of any age. Click here to download. [1]

AVG is a free anti-virus application. You can schedule scans, schedule automatic updates and you won't get constant pop-ups from it, telling you what a great job it's doing!
To download your free copy of AVG anti-virus, click here. [2]
The GIMP is a powerful graphics application that rivals Photoshop in the features it offers. Like the software above, it is completely free and open files from virtually any other graphics program.
To get your free copy, click here. [3]
Links:
[1] http://www.openoffice.org/
[2] http://www.avg.com/gb-en/product-avg-anti-virus-free-edition
[3] http://www.gimp.org/downloads/