Mini Apps are what we call our collection of small, fun interactive activities. They were developed by The Northern Grid in collaboration with schools. The activities are easy to use and appropriate for individual, group and whole class teaching via an interactive white board.
The original remit for the activities was to create small interactive applications in order to meet...
Start the Audit Tool
The Internet is a wonderful resource providing information...
Town trail is an online village with different places for the children to visit and explore. The areas are: House, Farm Yard , Field and Growth, Street and Environment , Garage , Shops , Emergency...

SENSwitcher is a suite of programs designed to help teach early ICT skills to people with profound and multiple learning difficulties, those who need to develop skills with assistive input devices and very young children...

So, what is Twitter?
"Twitter is not chat"
"Twitter is the largest staffroom in the...
This is Northern Grid's Acceptable Use Policy, updated for 2009.
This is available both as an editable Microsoft Word document and as an Adobe PDF file. Click the relevant link below to download.
This resource is a multi-disciplinary activity intended to aid the transition from primary to secondary school by taking a topic which requires the application of different subject knowledge to achieve understanding and a group approach for successful delivery.
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08 July 2009Northern Grid worked with a number of teachers in the North East region to produce resources for the foundation stage. This page links to a bank of worksheets and activities which may be downloaded and printed for use with children in the foundation stage. The resources cover Communication, Language and Literacy, Mathematical Development and Knowledge and Understanding of the...
02 July 2009The gallery below contains images taken in the course of a project called ‘Documenting the Changes’.
02 July 2009The gallery below contains images provided by the Gateshead Council.