Gold Award Tolo® Complete Gardening Set
Distributor: Tolo Toys Learning Ltd Tel: 01978 280070 Web:
www.hope-education.co.uk Price: £130.00 Age range: 5 years +
Description: Tolo’s Complete Gardening Set, which includes hand tools, long handled tools and wheelbarrows, are not only fun and educational but they are real gardening tools that have been custom-made to suit children. Each design is lightweight and easy to manage but has all the practicality or durability of high quality adult gardening tools. Children can discover for themselves the great adventures their garden holds.
Score: 91.8%
What the testers said: “An excellent idea! Mini versions of adult tools that are very sturdy and well-made. They are brightly coloured to appeal to young children. The children were very excited to play with these and loved playing in the garden. The children enjoyed the whole
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range of tools especially the wheel barrow. A reasonable price for such a large set of fantastic tools and they are extremely safe for the children to use when supervised.”
Publisher: The Usborne Foundation
Web: www.teachyourmonster
toread.com Price: Free Age range: 4 to 6 years
Description: Teach Your Monster to Read: First Steps is a new, free game to help children practise the first steps of reading. The game takes children on a magical adventure, practising letter sound recognition, blending and segmenting as they go. It has been developed by leading games designers, assessed by reading experts at Roehampton University and funded by a charity, The Usborne Foundation.
Score: 91.7%
What the testers said: “This is a fantastic free resource to support the teaching and learning of phonics. The games on the website encourage children to use a range of skills – auditory, visual and grapheme/phoneme correspondence. The children really enjoyed all of the games. It is definitely a resource that teachers could use with the whole class, small groups or individuals. It was very easy to access and the content was at a level the children understood themselves.”
Number Bunting
Manufacturer: The Pedagogs Ltd Web:
www.thepedagogs.com Price: £8.90 Age range: 3 to 7 years
Description: This gorgeous number line bunting from 0 to 20 is double sided and brightly coloured. The flags are A4-size and come packed with a roll of satin ribbon. The pack contains 23 flags, at a total length of 4.8m.
Score: 91.0 %
What the testers said: “We have not seen a product like this before so we were excited to use it. The illustrations were bold and colourful, which the children liked. We were impressed that the numerals on the reverse corresponded to their positions and in this respect it was versatile. This resource encouraged spontaneous counting from the children. A fantastic addition to our numeracy area.”
Pedagogs Credit Cards
Manufacturer: The Pedagogs Ltd Web:
www.thepedagogs.com Price: £7.50 Age range: 5 to 7 years
Description: This is the next classroom craze from The Pedagogs and a novel way to offer praise or reward your pupils. Give a few of these cards out each day to those who have worked well in class and watch them collect a complete set. More designs coming next term!
Score: 90.7%
What the testers said: “We loved these little praise cards; they were so appealing to the children, encouraging them to work hard and behave. They were lovely and bright with a variety of designs to suit young boys and girls. The children liked that if you collect all four it spells out different words on the reverse.”
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