The project will take place across quite a number of schools, none of which I know about yet! I'm assuming that some will have access and some may be using VLEs, but I can't guarantee they'll all be using the same one. So I was hoping to find a safe, free, web-based alternative (like ning) that's OK to use with Y5 children. Also, it needs to be very simple to use so that teachers can set it up easily.
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