The streamlined approach is designed for schools with 'good' ICT. In such a school, there is likely to be less need to use the self-review framework as a development tool so the focus for them might be to have their self-review validated by an external assessor through a more streamlined approach. The assessment process is exactly the same for all schools; it is simply the preparation/approach that is streamlined.

As the largest event of its type in the ICT calendar the Conference is open to all Naace members and sponsoring partners.

An ICT Co-ordinator in an infant school decsribes how she has set up an after-school Internet Café for children and their parents.

If you are working through the Becta self-review framework then you share our belief that ICT is a tool for school improvement. If you have reached the ICT Mark standard in all aspects of the framework then you have achieved a standard of e-maturity that is worth celebrating!

ICT Year 6: Creating Electronic Big Books

The Direct2U service was a weekly email subscription service for primary teachers from Becta, which ran during 2005/6. The scheme offered lesson plans featuring ICT in activities based on six subject strands. The service has now been discontinued but Becta have given us permission to use a selection from the plans in this magazine. A full archive of all the Direct2U activities can be found at http://forum.ngfl.gov.uk/direct2u

Introduction

In this activity, children work in small groups to design and create an electronic Big Book for the younger children in the school. They will take into account the reading age and interests of younger children and the format of Big Books, and test out their books and modify them if necessary. There is not room here to give full details of how to use Big Book Maker but it is well supported with manuals and guides http://primary.naace.co.uk/activities/BigBookMaker/

An ICT resource for teaching mental maths

This response paper highlights the formal Naace view in relation to the key issues for ICT in relation to the Care Matters Green Paper following its consultation with the Naace membership

Annex to the main ECM Think Tank report from 5 April 2006: reflections by invited speakers on the interrelationship between the ECM agenda and other national initiatives and challenges, especially with regard to ICT.

Full text of the Naace response to the QCA secondary curriculum review, available for browsing or to download in Word format.

Full text of the Naace response to the Primary Review (supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation).