However, campaigners from the TaxPayers’ Alliance want to know how the school, which was granted academy status in May, funded the move.
Emma Boon, Taxpayers’ Alliance campaign director, said: ‘iPads are a premium product at a premium price, there will be a huge cost of buying, repairing and replacing the devices that will inevitably be damaged or go astray.
‘Buying new technology for schools has to be about educational results, not gimmicks.
