Smart Learning

Awards

BETT Awards 2010

Phase 1 Phonics shortlisted for BETT Award!

Smart Learning is delighted to announce that the popular Phase 1 Phonics Series has been shortlisted for a BETT Award, in the Early Years Solutions category.

The BETT Awards is an annual scheme that highlights exemplar digital products intended for the education marketplace.

The BETT Awards define exemplar products as those which are fit for imitation, or a model. The awards also recognise outstanding education sector products and learning solutions. Judges review the entries based on these criteria, including design, cost-effectiveness, support of higher order skills and effective learning and teaching styles. For the technical evaluation, focus is on the robustness and resilience of each product, and its accessibility for those with specific needs.

The BETT Awards is committed to five key principles:

Celebrate a distinctive and diverse digital education resources market
Represent and meet the needs of the education system
Stimulate the design, production and delivery of high quality learning resources
Provide options for practitioners, learners and parents who want to use innovative and distinctive educational resources
Reward inclusive and accessible designs.

The BETT Awards is produced by Emap Connect, the organisers of the largest educational technology show in the world – BETT. The BETT Awards is made possible by working in association with Becta, the Government's lead agency for ICT in education, and BESA, the trade association representing the educational supply industry.

Find out more about Phase 1 Phonics

ERA – Education Resource Awards 2009

Smart Learning Shortlisted!

The popular Smart Skills Builder Reading Booster Pack series has been shortlisted for the Education Resource Awards 2009!

This innovative range of resources to support struggling readers at Key Stage 3 has been shortlisted in the ‘Best Secondary Resources (non ICT) category.

The Education Resources Awards highlight the quality and diversity of educational products and resources. Now in their eleventh successful year the ERA focus on the resources that create a practical impact on learning and the day-to-day work of teachers in the classroom.

The winners will be announced at a dinner on Friday 27 March – keep your fingers crossed for Smart Learning!

For the full shortlist please visit the BESA website

BETT Awards 2007

Winner: Digital Content, Primary (Core Subjects) – Interactive Literacy (Year 3 and 4)

Smart Learning’s Interactive Literacy Year 3 and 4 was awarded a 2007 BETT Award for Digital Content Primary (Core Subjects).

BETT awards recognise outstanding education sector products and learning solutions. Expert judges review entries based on criteria in the following areas:

Support of higher order skills
Effective learning and teaching styles
Design
Cost-effectiveness
Robustness and resilience
Accessibility for those with specific needs

The judges commented that Smart Learning’s Interactive Literacy “is very good at delivering literacy and the development of cross-curricular sections, while also helping to embed ICT into the curriculum”.

Shortlisted: Early Years Solutions – Early Years ICT Series (Disc 1)

Disc one of Smart Learning’s Early Years ICT Series was also short-listed for a BETT Award in the ‘Early Years Solutions’ category in 2007.

Liz Nuttall, Director of Smart Learning commented: “We were delighted to be short-listed for this year’s ‘Early Year’s Solutions’ BETT award. Recognition of our Early Years ICT product has inspired us to develop a wider range of exciting resources for younger children.”

Press Release: Smart Learning wins 2007 BETT Award