Mac office or Pages for daughter's school work?

My daughter needs more for her school assignments and creative projects. She is interested in animation and likes to enhance photos and images she finds. as a secondary school student(12yrs-13yrs) she needs to produce homelearning projects also. We have imac 10.5 with OX. I had been recommended macoffice because it was assumed we would find it difficult to work on apple at home and pc at school , this doesn't appear to be the case,daughter does both no problem but as I am not great with computer there are things she might struggle to do. i am planning to get some instruction from the apple store recently opened in our nearest city. What would people recommend?

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