The Beryl and Barney home-school link was established last year at Aboyne Nursery in Aberdeenshire where I work. It was designed to enable the children to take a teddy bear home and 'have adventures'. The children would retell the adventures to staff who would scribe their story, and the children would be encouraged to draw pictures of their escapades.
When I began my current post as nursery teacher in August 2002, I was made aware of the Information and Communications Technology Innovative Awards Scheme that had just been funded by the Scottish Executive for the second year. The National Grid for Learning (Scotland) was organising the awards and was inviting applications from educational establishments with ideas for innovative small scale ICT projects.
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