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Planning across the six areas of learning in ICT can cause difficulties for some nursery teachers, says Gina Kent In 1998 the Government announced that it had allocated 230 million from the National Lottery to support training in the use of information and communications technology (ICT) for teachers and school librarians in maintained schools across the UK. The New Opportunities Fund was to allocate the funding. The main aim of the training is to raise the standard of pupils' achievements by increasing the expertise of all teachers to the level expected of all newly qualified entrants.

In 1998 the Government announced that it had allocated 230 million from the National Lottery to support training in the use of information and communications technology (ICT) for teachers and school librarians in maintained schools across the UK. The New Opportunities Fund was to allocate the funding. The main aim of the training is to raise the standard of pupils' achievements by increasing the expertise of all teachers to the level expected of all newly qualified entrants.

Since September 2001 I have been working full time as an ICT consultant for the Foundation Stage in Lewisham, south London. I deliver New Opportunities Fund ICT training to schools for Talent, a training consortium made up of Lewisham LEA, Lewisham College and Goldsmiths College. The training model offers schools the equivalent of six sessions for face-to-face training and each individual teacher also receives up to half a day's individual support. This can be in the classroom, or as one-to-one help in, for example, planning, teaching, managing and assessing, or for the development of technical ICT skills. Talent also offers specialist training days for Foundation Stage practitioners.The typical programme for such a day covers:

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