The number of students reaches 100. Joanne Slade becomes the first student with complex disabilities to pass her Royal Society of Arts typing exam with the aid of a head stick.
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1981
Student Alison French is featured in a national TV programme called ‘Forty Minutes’.
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1982
The commerce and typing department is enlarged to include computing and word processing.
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1983
New accommodation for six students, Moose Bungalow (now Malvern), opens.
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1984
Former student Robert Jones is the only person with disabilities to be chosen for the first Operation Raleigh expedition.
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1985
New Court opens with teaching rooms, resource centre, workshop, speech therapy unit and home economics department.
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1987
A BTEC First Diploma course in business and finance is launched.
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1987
Student Patrick Bates presents a paper at a conference for the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication.
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1988
Shortwood Farmhouse is extended and refurbished.
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1989
The Duchess of Kent building opens and includes teaching rooms, a kitchen, a dining room and a library.
