It is one of eight schools and four children's homes run by The Witherslack Group, which offers education and residential care to children with special education needs.
She comments: "There are many advantages of both ‘off the shelf' or local authority-wide learning platforms. There is compatibility between users, easier collaboration between staff and ease of data exchange between schools.
"Local authority learning platforms allow education officers to get to grips with a single system, they are cheaper and more efficient to support, and pupils and staff within the same local authority can easily transfer their experience and expertise to one another.
"However, learning platforms are not without their disadvantages. With all ‘off the shelf' and local authority products, there is the automatic assumption that one system fits all schools and all pupils, which off course is impossible.
"With off the shelf solutions, you may also be making a substantial investment for aspects that are never used or simply not applicable to your learning practices. Equally, a lot of schools have developed their own bespoke learning platforms, but now find themselves being forced to use another learning platform that has been developed by their local authority.
"The overall success and effectiveness of learning platforms on the education of pupils is something that is hard to measure at this current time. Although the majority of schools have had their learning platforms in place for long time, most are having to change to a local authority developed system.
"However, it is easy to see that access to a learning portfolio via the web at any time from any location is of great benefit to education and independent learning. Pupils are able to take control of their work at their own pace, on set tasks that have been personalised and customised to their individual requirements."
