A new headteacher has taken over the reins at St Bernard's Catholic School - at an exciting moment in its development.

The school in Langley Road is one of two in the Slough area accepted by the Government run Education and Skills Funding Agency as eligible for a grant to enable it to expand - alongside Langley Grammar School.

Father of three Paul Kassapian, 47, took over at St Bernard's School at the start of term. He is still waiting to hear how much the school will get but hopes to expand the sixth form and increase pupil numbers above and beyond the current 800.

He has been head of Harrow's Salvatorian College for the last five years.

He grew up in Yorkshire and started teaching religious education 21 years ago.

He is optimistic about young people today and does not believe technology is something to be feared.

He said: "Globalisation and instant technology can lead to pupils wanting to have things they can see very quickly without having to work hard to achieve them.

"But technology is part of modern life and we have to educate young people to use it responsibly."

He is not worried though.

"I do believe young people have a sense of right and wrong, a sense of fairness and an awareness and understanding of people of other faiths."

Over the 100 years it has been going the school has metamorphosed from a convent school for girls into a co-educational school that also takes pupils from different faiths, while retaining a basically Christian ethos.

A recent Ofsted report rated it outstanding.