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Naace

Welcome to Naace

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Naace is the professional association for those concerned with advancing education through the appropriate use of information and communications technology (ICT). The Association was established in 1984 and has become the key influential professional association for those working in ICT in education.
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Naace Primary Resources

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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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ICT Mark

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Are you sharing your success with others?
Celebrate putting technology at the heart of learning!

Naace has a key role in the development and delivery of the ICT Mark working with our partner, the awarding body, Becta. The ICT Mark is an accreditation for schools who have reached nationally agreed levels within the Becta self-review framework.
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Direct2U email service and lesson plans

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.
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Naacemark for Service Providers 2.0

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Naace has completely revised its quality assurance scheme for service providers to make it consistent with established principles of self-review. Details of this new '2.0' scheme may be found here.
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Parliamentary Committee Inquiry into the National Curriculum: 2008

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In February 2008, Parliament announced its intention to undertake an Inquiry into the National Curriculum and invited submissions of written evidence.
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Events

Naace runs a wide range of activities and events for Members and Sponsors. Information about forthcoming and recent events is available here.

If you are organising any events and would be happy to hand out Naace literature please do let us know or should you have exhibition space that we may be able to fill please contact michelle.cank@naace.org
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Rose Review of the Primary Curriculum

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Sir Jim Rose is leading an independent review of the primary curriculum. His initial focus was Curriculum Design and Content, including a key issue for Naace members: What should be the position of ICT within the primary curriculum?
Here is Naace's response.
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Elections to the Board of Management: 2007

I am pleased to announce that the following nominations were received from Members for the recent call for elections. Given the number of places vacant, one in the case of Senior Vice Chair and four in the case of Members of the Board, the named Members are elected unopposed.
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Naace response to DCSF consultation on Home Access

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Naace Members have contributed to the DCSF consultation on the proposed Home Access programme. The DCSF sought views on a number of questions during Spring 2008 and the Naace response is published here.
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