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.

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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.

Andy Pierson of ESP explains how ICT can support teachers in the classroom who are nervous about singing or playing an instrument in front of the class.

Taking the seaside as a theme Andy Pierson of ESP describes ways in which music can be effectively integrated into this popular Key Stage 1 topic.

Andy Pierson of ESP describes how the KS2 weather topic provides many opportunities for using descriptive language to explain different weather features. In this activity we will create an imaginary weather diary using weather symbols each of which has some music to go with it.

This article won the Chris Robson Memorial Prize in 1999 and first appeared in MAPE Focus on Art Summer 1998. Steve describes how over fifty children from Key Stage 2 were involved in creating a multimedia school prospectus as artists, authors, photographers or editors.

I shared several comments from colleagues in the last issue of Sharing Success on the end of school web-sites (for sharing educational material). The conversations and opinions developed into a really interesting thread - with colleagues contributing factual and objective views ....

What constitutes a good lesson? Is it good preparation, planning and assessment? Does it have to cover all the strands in the National Literacy or Numeracy Strategies? How can what the children have experienced be measured?

The idea for the 'sing-a-round event', which is part of the Oracle Education Foundation's 'Let's Play 2008 Project' I have been leading, came from bumping into Maurice Walsh from Manchester's Music service whilst working with one of the project schools. He asked about the project and as he had links in Beijing was there any way we could add another event that involved sharing singing between schools.