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Welcome to the 2012 Practical Pre-School Awards in association with Primary Teacher Update
This supplement is the definitive guide to the award-winning, innovative products that are available now.
Welcome to the 2012 issue of the annual Practical Pre-School Awards Guide, brought to you by Practical Pre-School and Primary Teacher Update magazines. This year the reach of the annual awards continues to include products aimed at professional childcare and educational settings, and has expanded further to include products that are aimed at all of primary education including key stages 1 and 2.
As ever, we are delighted to be able to bring you the key information about the wide range of exciting products that have been expertly designed for your use and for the benefit of the children in your care. So, whether you work in an early years setting, in child care or in a primary school, the details in this guide will be of relevance to you.
Over the years, the Practical Pre-School Awards have gone from strength to strength. The Primary Teacher Update Awards scheme, which has been established to run in conjunction with the Practical Pre-School Awards, is designed to include products that are aimed at children in primary education, aged from five to 11-years-old. As you will see, this has allowed an even wider range of products to be entered into this year’s awards, with a view to providing you with the useful guidance that can be of great benefit when choosing what products to use with the children and incorporate into your teaching.
All of the products in the awards have been tried and tested rigorously by an independent panel of testers, including the children themselves. Each product that was entered has been tested in at least two separate settings by the children and their carers or teachers. Testers marked the equipment against a pre-defined set of criteria which included elements such as appeal to the children at the start and end of the trial, durability, adaptability, educational values, play value, value for money and more.
With 90 per cent or more needed for products to attain a gold award, 80 to 89 per cent needed for silver to be achieved and 70 to 79 per cent required for bronze, the entries were all competing within a stringent scoring system. Each category’s coveted overall winner is defined by the product in that category with the highest overall score. The scoring system is designed to further highlight the outstanding quality of these products, the innovation that has gone into creating them and the commitment of the product suppliers and manufacturers in providing you with exceptional products.
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So, without further ado, please read on to find out what this year’s successful products are and use the information in the guide to help you make clear and considered judgments when deciding what new products to invest in or recommend.
Now incorporating Child Care magazine
Editor: Amy Griggs
amy.griggs@
markallengroup.com
Managing Director: Matt Govett
matt.govett@
markallengroup.com Design: Fonthill Creative Chief Executive Officer: Ben Allen
Practical Pre-School is published by: MA Education, St Jude’s Church, Dulwich Road, London, SE24 0PB
www.practicalpreschool.com
MA Education Ltd is part of the Mark Allen Group
www.markallengroup.com
Awards scheme administered by Evolution PR Limited Tel: 01327 701702. Email:
info@evolution-pr.co.uk
Now incorporating Child Care magazine Practical Pre-School Awards 2012 3
Tel: 020 7738 5454 Website:
www.practicalpreschool.com
Our thanks of course go to our team of testers, the full list of whom can be found on page 4 of this publication, and to Evolution PR, whose commitment and support always make these awards so popular and engaging.
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