A wide range of Primary classroom activities, reviews and resources has been developed and published over the years originally by MAPE and, more recently since the merger in 2004, by Naace.

Paul Williamson has spent a great deal of time empowering teachers in different subjects to use their Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) effectively. The successes have become increasingly apparent with every area of the school moving forward rapidly.

Broadgreen are one of the few high schools across the country that run a baccalaureate programme. The programme is highly successful one for their students and are Becta's ICT Excellence Awards 2008 - joint runner-up award winners for the Best whole school in the North West category.

In this article we are looking at a piece of software that has the potential to be very helpful in textiles activities at Key Stages 2 and 3. We believe that this piece of software is in the public domain and available for educational, non-commercial use. Even so, we advise you to carefully read any restrictions or conditions of use before installing it.

Susia Arnott and Marie Hindmarch, Advisory Teachers for ICT in North Tyneside LA, developed activities based upon The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch and The Giant Jam Sandwich to support the Langdale Early Years SCITT ICT. children.

In this article Angella Streluk explains some of the features of control work and suggests ways in which D&T and control can be integrated into topic work on the theme of 'homes and habitats'.

In this article Caroline Atherton describes how she integrated art and design and design technology into a History unit studying the Aztecs, and the particular role ICT played in this work.

In this article Chris Hackett describes how children became engrossed in learning as they were presented with a range of scenarios.

Becta produced ideas and activities using ICT across the curriculum. These can be found at http://forum.ngfl.gov.uk/direct2u
This article reproduces three of the Direct2U activities. The first is a D&T task for Year 1. This is followed by two Art & Design activities, one for Year 1 and the other for Year 2.

In this article Glenys Hart summarises the content of some of the Regional Broadband Consortia's individual grids for learning with reference to Art and Design and Design and Technology.