More than 70 pupils are to be suspended from a Lincolnshire school for downloading a game onto school computers.
A total of 54 students at Tollbar Business and Enterprise College, in New Waltham, Grimsby, have already served a day's suspension for misusing information technology facilities, the school said.
The same sanction will be applied to a further 20 p
upils when they have finished their exams.
All were found to have downloaded the game Armagetron onto the hard drives of school PCs after it was brought onto the site on a pupil's memory stick.
College principal David Hampson said it was important to send out a message that school computers should only be used for learning.
He said: "It was picked up by our monitoring systems straight away and all of them were immediately locked out of their computers. We have more than 1,000 computers at the college and they are for learning and education, not playing games. We have taken a stance."
Mr Hampson said he was disappointed by the students' behaviour as the school had gone to great lengths to give them a good education.
He said: "It is disappointing because we are doing all we can to support our students and help them to do well, like giving Saturday lessons, and they were wasting time with a game. We have just had an outstanding report from Ofsted, and with 2,058 pupils are one of the biggest schools to be rated outstanding.
"We have a very clear policy on the use of our ICT systems and any infringement will be dealt with appropriately."
Inspectors from the education watchdog Ofsted visited the school last month. They described the use of computers to promote students' independence and progress as a "major strength".
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