New computer equipment has transformed test results at a south Oxfordshire primary school.

Hagbourne Primary School's recent SATs results have been excellent, and headteacher Richard Jones attributes much of the success to new technology.

During the summer of 2004 every classroom at the school was fitted with interactive whiteboards and teachers were provided with new Easiteach software on their laptops.

Using the specially designed software or the Internet, lesson material can be beamed onto the interactive 'touchscreen' whiteboards and children can then interact with it using their fingertips.

The technology appears to have had an immediate impact on the school's Key Stage two SATs results with a 100 per cent performance in Level Four English, maths and science. Mr Jones said the new equipment enabled good teachers to be even more effective.

"Much of this progress is down to the whiteboards and Easiteach. Immediately from September we had a brand new way of displaying and teaching. It's made concepts visual and therefore much easier for teachers to communicate and pupils to understand.

"The outstanding SATs results reveal just how much progress has been made this year."

The school is just one of seven countrywide to be recognised under the Schools Excellence Initiative.

The awards, launched by ICT educational supplier Research Machines based at Milton Park, near Abingdon, recognise innovative use of classroom technology.

Tim Pearson, chief executive officer at RM, said: "Hagbourne Primary School has achieved so much in the development of ICT in primary education."