Adobe® Acrobat® 6.0 Professional software enables business, creative, and engineering professionals who work with graphically complex documents to improve the reliability and efficiency of business-critical document exchange. 

The industry-standard vector graphics software.
All-new Adobe® Illustrator® CS software is an essential tool for anyone who needs to express ideas visually in print, on the Web, and in any other medium. With powerful new 3D features, advanced typographical controls, smooth Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) integration, enhanced printing options, and faster performance, this powerful upgrade from Illustrator 10 helps you explore your creative vision and efficiently publish your artwork anywhere.  

The professional standard in desktop digital imaging.
Get superior results faster with industry-standard Adobe® Photoshop® software. You're in control with indispensable new features for graphic and Web designers, photographers, and video professionals.  

Real-time editing for professional video production.
Adobe® Premiere® software revolutionizes nonlinear video editing. Powerful real-time video and audio editing tools give you precise control over virtually every aspect of your production. Built for the exceptional performance of Microsoft® Windows XP® systems. 

Artcam allows you to create 3D models from 2D images by embossing and debossing different colours in the design. The software is commonly used in the sign and jewellery industries.
WestWirralWorks is an accredited training centre for this software and can offer certified training for teachers and licencing for schools. 

The 3rd Generation Graph Plotter for schools and colleges!
Autograph is the new dynamic PC software for teaching calculus, coordinate geometry, statistics and probability.  

Professional sign making software designed to help signmakers create any type of sign or poster easily, effectively, and quickly with the highest quality. 

RM Colour Magic is a computer graphics package to create pictures. It allows images to be developed, modified and corrected. Different ideas can be used to communicate ideas through pictures. There are many features in this package to increase the final image, such as; the spray tool, highlights of colour, the brush tool and a range of visual effects. 

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite introduces smart design tools for producing more creative and accurate graphics. With graphic design, page layout, digital imaging and motion graphics software, it is the ideal graphics suite for Windows.  

Cubase is a series of MIDI, music sequencer and digital audio editing computer applications (commonly known as a DAW - Digital Audio Workstation), created by the German firm Steinberg 

Dartfish software allows you to integrate video to its maximum potential in sports training and education. 

ArtCAM uses a combination of vector and pixel based images to create 3D reliefs. ArtCAM is a machinists tool used widely in the mold making and jewelry making industries.It is ideally suited to cross curricular applications. For example, ArtCAM is ideal for designing moulds in art, manufacturing it in D&T and measuring volumes in Maths.  

MiniCAM is an easy to use, Wizard based program that navigates students through the process of calculating 3D toolpaths over 3D CAD models produced in Pro/DESKTOP and/or ArtCAM. Students can load their own CAD models, specify an overall size for manufacture, select a material and appropriate cutting tools, calculate roughing and finishing toolpaths, simulate the results to assess surface quality and finally save the toolpaths ready for CNC machining. Designed specifically for educational users, MiniCAM provides a really simple step by step guide to manufacturing student designs.  

Mill Cam Designer is an easy-to-use milling design package which provides a low-cost introduction to Computer Aided Design and Manufacture (CAD/CAM). It is supported by Denford curriculum courseware and project material for the student to follow. 

QuickCAM 3D is a software package used to create CNC machine tool paths from 3D models or 2D images. This is achieved by entering sizes, defining positions and configuring your tooling and machining setups in a series of nine step-by-step stages.  

VR CNC Milling is the control software for all Denford PC series of millers and routers. It can also be used as off-line programming away from the machine to write programs and simulate them in either 2D or 3D windows. One of its best features is the Virtual Reality window, which allows students to preview thier designs and manufacturing process in a virtual world.  

Allows the aerodynamic analysis of car designs for the Jaguar F1 in Schools Challenge. 

Flowol can be used in simulation mode with a wide range of mimics – on-screen control scenarios. Designed for use in the computer room, mimics enable pupils to learn about cause and effect in a control system, and test their programs without an interface or model attached. Flowol can also operate ready-made models, or a student’s model via an interface e.g. FlowGo or the Fischertechnik Intelligent Interface – particularly useful for Systems and Control projects. 

Kar2ouche®, a product of Immersive Education and the University of Oxford, is a creative and interactive multimedia authoring software tool. It helps students to develop contextual understanding, critical interpretation, and individual expression through a wide range of creative activities including interactive role-play, picture making, storyboarding, animation, publishing and movie making. WestWirralWorks has over 50 Kar2ouche title covering a wide variety of Primary and Secondary Topic including RE, MFL, PHSE, History, English, Drama etc.Click here to see a detailed list of the titles available at WestWirralWorks CLC.
WestWirralWorks is an accredited training partner for Immesive education. We are able to provide formal training to teachers on this product. We are also able to distribute this software free of charge to Wirral pupils for home use. Contact the centre for more details.  

Some science concepts can be difficult to explain - and even harder to illustrate practically in-class. But by using real-time simulation, Krucible's virtual laboratories bring physics to life. Explore Waves, Energy and Forces: learners can run their own virtual experiments on-screen, taking measurements and plotting results, or explore 300 prepared activities and challenges - all in real time Suitable for KS4 

Lego Mindstorms Robolab the smartest, strongest and most advanced LEGO robot ever. LEGO mindstorms include an all new NXT intelligent brick with 32 bit micro-processor, 3 interactive servo motors, a sound sensor, an ultrasonic visual sensor, an improved sensor, and an improved light sensor.  

Macromedia Studio MX Professional Web Development Software
Dreamweaver : Fireworks : Flash : Freehand 

Cambridge Software CLC Maths In Motion National Challenge 

This Classroom Video Database has over 500 titles. It is accessable from any of the centres large screen monitors/projectors when using a teachers account. The database allows teachers to search for suitable videos by subject or year group. Click here to see a detailed list of the titles and to download teacher notes.  

Mediastage allows students to create a virtual production and be in full control of characters, lighting and cameras. 

Easy-to-use Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia Deluxe 2003 gives you a wealth of up-to-date information and more than 60,000 articles for work, home, or school. Get comprehensive and reliable resources to make learning simple and easy.  

With FrontPage® you can create and manage your own website. Build exactly the website you want using familiar Office tools.  

Microsoft® Access is one of the most versatile applications in the Office suite. This versatility is evidenced by the rich set of tools that even the most experienced database user can take advantage of, while offering the same level of simplicity as the other Office applications for first-time database users.  

Take control of your personal information and email communication with this new version of Outlook®.  

The newest version of our presentation graphics program helps you create attention-grabbing slides quickly and effectively. 

Publisher is a comprehensive solution for creating and publishing a wide variety of publications for desktop printing, commercial printing, e-mail distribution, or viewing on the Web.  

The latest version of Microsoft's award-winning word processing software helps you to easily create great-looking documents.  

This spreadsheet application helps you work smarter by allowing you to analyse data and get the most out of your information.  

Microsoft Visual Studio is Microsoft's software development product for computer programmers. It centers on an integrated development environment which lets programmers create standalone applications, web sites, web applications, and web services that run on any platforms supported by Microsoft's .NET Framework (for all versions after Visual Studio 6). Supported platforms include Microsoft Windows servers and workstations, PocketPC, Smartphones, and World Wide Web browsers.  

With MissionMaker students can create their own computer games.
MissionMaker lets students rapidly create visually 3D rich worlds for first-person 'Missions' - complete with sets, animated characters, dialogue and music.
Students can:

Select elements from an extensive object library to create a unique game world

Create and animate 3D characters

Import their own music, graphics and video

Set rules for game play

WestWirralWorks is an accredited training partner for Immesive education. We are able to provide formal training to teachers on this product. We are also able to distribute this software free of charge to Wirral pupils for home use. Contact the centre for more details. 

Control Studio 2 is a simulation package for learning about systems and control in electronics. It consists of a range of animated subsystem blocks that perform different functions such as switching and amplification. By connecting the subsystem blocks together you can investigate how they work and how electronics is used to solve everyday problems.  

Livewire is a state-of-the-art package for designing, simulating and analyzing circuits. It is powered by a highly accurate physics engine that is able to model precisely the characteristics of a circuit. 

PCB Wizard is a highly innovative package for designing single-sided and double-sided printed circuit boards (PCBs).  

Pantagrams allow you to trace over images that have been scanned or downloaded from the internet to create professional embroidery designs including applique. Once completed the designs can be sent to our 15 colour digital embroidery machine.  

Pinnacle Studio is the most powerful, easy-to-use software video editor in its class. Capture home movies to your computer, edit them, add titles, music, narration and special effects and then output your edited masterpiece to videotape, DVD and the Internet.  

Pro/DESKTOP is a program suitable for designing objects that can be measured accurately. It is great for producing complex products that are made of many parts (assemblies). Suitable designs can then be output to a CNC machine. Typical applications are, prototypes (camera, CD player, concept cars) 

3D CAD Software 

Music Creation Software that helps students to learn and embrace everything from theory to composition. They can even write music to video, and publish scores on the school intranet or directly to the web.  

3D Cad Software 

Speedstep suite of software is used for fashion fashion design. The software consists of:

ProSketch

ProSketch allows you to create new garment designs and edit existing designs.

ProPainter

With ProPainter you can create innovative fabric prints and logos which can then be applied to your ProSketch design. The software is very powerful and can simulate the how the pattern will look draped on a model. Alternatively the design can be printed and applied to fabric using our sublimation printing process.

ProPattern

Propattern allows you to create fabric patterns with detailed measurements that can be output to a plotter.
WestWirralWorks is an accredited training centre for this software and can offer teacher certification and licencing to schools. 

2D DESIGN combines technical draughting, graphic design and CAD/CAM, into one package, suitable for all ages. Version 2 of this software allows images to be imported into the design. 

2D Technical drawing package 

eduCADAM 2D milling Design software combines technical draughting, graphic design and CAD/CAM, into one package.
It is available FREE from the Unimatic Web site.