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.

The Direct2U service was a weekly email service produced by Becta in partnership with Naace. The service was for primary teachers and offered lesson plans featuring ICT in activities based on six subject strands. The service is discontinued but you can view the lesson plans in this archive.

An interpretation of QCA Art Unit 2A 'Picture This'

This follows on nicely from work done in QCA Art Unit 1A 'Self -portrait'

The following 'step-through' example uses Textease Studio CT but could be appropriately done with any other paint package.

This article won the Chris Robson Memorial Prize 1998 and first appeared in MicroScope 50, 1997. Sally describes how she worked with Year 2 children to develop a collection of exciting games to play using the Roamers.

Imagine a world where schoolchildren are contacting pupils in schools around the world through a totally safe, virtual environment, chatting about differences, sharing pictures, and posting opinions about stories they've read and written. Their teachers are making sure skills in literacy, numeracy, ICT and communication are being improved. The children are sharing ideas about how to live more healthy lifestyles. This Article illustrates how some of this is possible through the 101+ Club Project, supported by by the Oracle Education Foundation.

Kar2ouche is a commercially produced program that allows students to create imaginative animations with a full range of templates. Students can to add backgrounds, characters, voices and objects to support their multimedia projects.

Julie Steer's Article is inspired by early memories of her grandmother reading Charles Dickens's classic novel, Oliver Twist during a four-day visit. Julie reviews how a suite of software, 'The Literacy Collection' replicates some of her grandmother's techniques of story-telling: summarise, substitute, explain, visualise and performance.