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.

Naace has been invited to offer two briefing sessions in the Local Authority Lounge. These cover ICT CPD experiences for ICT advisors and the use of web-conferencing to support transition and MFL. Naace will be making four contributions to the Seminar Programme covering collaborative tools in teaching and learning, personalised learning, transforming learning and a report on the 'Let's Play Project'.

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.

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

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'.

This article won the Chris Robson Prize 2003. Roy describes how he started a club for Year 4 pupils to learn Spanish, with the help of some ICT resources. The project culminated in an invitation to the children's mums to join them for an entertaining Spanish evening!

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.