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.

Bowes children aged 9-10, in supportive pairs, created short PowerPoint presentations with a focus on the use of ICT, showing what they had learnt from their topic work on Ancient Greece.

What does globalisation mean?

Perhaps one of the most interesting aspects relating to Globalisation is that means different things to different people. The DCSF aims to focus on the new curriculum for ICT and across all subjects and dimensions. However, Globalisation infers the 'bigger picture' and the use, development or acceptance of ideas, Web 2.0 technology as well as communicating and sharing information globally. Put more simply Globalisation refers to using ICT to help schools prepare children to take their place in the world/become global citizens.

NOUS PARLONS FRANÇAIS - ET VOUS?

As the Primary languages entitlement creeps ever closer, Roz Mays, a teacher of French at one of Cambridgeshire's smallest primary schools with approximately 80 pupils, shares her experiences of Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) teaching and talks about how technology can relieve the pressure on teachers.

Arnaud Mandan livens up MFL by inviting famous French and German guests from the past onto their VLE forums. Dave Calver came up with the idea of getting his students to write questions to a virtual World War I veteran in order to get an idea of what life was like living in the trenches before writing their own assignment on what life was like.

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.

The introduction of modern foreign languages to the primary school is quite a challenge to most schools but fortunately there are some good case studies, dictionaries, translators, sets of lesson plans, worksheets, presentations, flash cards and other resources online. There are also opportunities to develop your own skills with online lessons and chances to network with other teachers. Reviewed by Jim Merrett

The project created the world's biggest human hand-holding chain of children, to highlight the 80 million primary aged children who do not go to school, for Germany's Prime Minister, Angela Merkel, the European Union and the G8 Summit leaders.

The paper chain of children created was digitally recorded and represented our friends who did not go to school. Our resources were then uploaded to our Twinspace site at: http://my.twinspace.etwinning.net/sendmyfriend?l=en and the information passed on the Global Campaign for Education.

In this article Janice Staines presents some case studies demonstrating ways in which teachers have incorporated ICT into their Modern Foreign Language teaching.

Some suggestions for using talking word processors and Naace Big Book Maker to develop children's skills and confidence in MFL within the topic of 'Time'.