Electronic and New Technology The Reception Teacher App
Manufacturer: The Pedagogs Tel: +852 2581 4800 Web:
www.thepedagogs.com Price: £1.99 Age range: 3-5 years
Description: The Reception Teacher App highlights the key concepts and skills from the reception year curriculum. Children work through: letter formation, addition and subtraction, initial letter sound and high frequency word recognition. Earn stars and then trade them for exciting virtual stickers and animation.
Score: 96.5%
What the testers said: “The app is very user friendly and easy for the children to understand. Good animation, children were very engaged and it is age appropriate. The child-like voice giving the instructions supports the children to use it independently. Good links to EYFS and good value for money. The children found it easy to navigate and I liked the way that if the children got something wrong it gave them the opportunity to try again.”
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Gold Award Overall winner
Electronic and New Technology
WordWand
Supplier/Distributor/Manufacturer: Reflections on Learning
Tel: 01869 366166 Web:
www.reflectionsonlearning.co.uk Price: £39.99 + VAT Age range: 3+ years
Description: WordWand is an innovative educational game that teaches children to listen, recognise and learn new words every time they use it. The recordable handset comes with 100 picture cards portraying common everyday objects and 50 blank cards, providing practitioners with an open-ended resource they can tailor to the individual needs of children.
Score: 90.7% 3
What the testers said: “WordWand immediately grabbed the children’s attention and their concentration when using it. It really was ‘child’s play’ with the ability to create your own activities at the press of a button. We played word, picture and number recognition games using the wide range of cards that are provided and made up our own games with other themes too. It has been brilliant to help a SEN child who is learning number bonds to 6, another who is trying to learn high-frequency words in reading. It really engages listening and word recognition skills. It created excitement with the sound effects and allowed the children to join in together. The children love it and see it as their “magic wand”.”
Innotab2 Baby
Supplier/Manufacturer: Vtech Electronics
Tel: 01235 546845 Web:
www.vtech.com Price: £84.99 Age range: 12+ months
Description: Babies can develop core skills in reading, letter sounds, names, numbers, logic and creativity with the many fun educational activities included. Includes a rotating self-portrait camera and microphone for enhanced game-play. Additional games and learning apps are available by connecting to the learning lodge website.
Score: 90.0%
What the testers said: “The children had so much fun with this; they loved having a toy that was like what grown-ups use. The two to three-year-olds were able to use it alone and find the apps. It has been dropped a few times but no damage done, so it is also robust. The device is very portable and so is good for car journeys. The device supports hand- eye coordination, creative
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play, language development and is a welcome addition to our ICT resources.”
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