Winners of the Nursery World Equipment & Resources Awards 2019 revealed

The products entered were tested by independent early years settings and experts, who marked them on criteria including learning potential, versatility, design and value for money.

Birth to Threes

• TickiT Sensory Reflective Sound Balls: Commotion – Gold

• Giant Stack and Build: TTS Group – Gold

Prime Areas

• Tales Toolkit Online Training Package and Resources: Tales Toolkit – Gold

• TickiT Rainbow Architect Sets:Commotion – Gold

• Early Soundplay Bundle Collection: Clickety Books – Silver

• Pop Like Popcorn CD and Teachers Guide: Funky Feet Music – Silver

• Babo the Dragon: Baby Erasmus – Bronze

Literacy

• Tales Toolkit online training package and resources: Tales Toolkit – Gold
  
  
• Chatter Clouds: Hope Education – Gold
  
  
• Blackboard Writing Shed: Cosy – Silver
  
  
• Johny Lambert’s Animal ABC: DK – Silver
  
  
• Story Cube: Millwood Education – Silver
  
  

Mathematics

• Messy Maths: Crown House Publishing – Gold
  
  
• The Curious Dragons: Skylark Learning – Gold
  
  
• Apple Tree Maths: Sport and Playbase – Silver
  
  
• Wooden Frame Counting Set: Yellow Door – Silver
  
  
• Giant Playground Counting Tree Rings: Cosy – Silver
  
  
• Numbermat: Numberfit – Bronze

Creativity

• The Niki Davies Book of Songs for Spring and Summer: Out of the Ark Music – Gold
  
  
• The Niki Davies Book of Songs for Autumn and Winter: Out of the Ark Music – Gold
  
  
• TickIT Rainbow Architect Sets: Commotion – Gold
  

Understanding the World (check!)

• iSandbox: iSandbox – Gold
  
  
• Let’s Investigate: Woodland, Safari and Polar Footprints: Yellow Door – Silver
• TickiT Wooden Minibeast Blocks: Commotion – Silver
  
  
• TickiT Domestic Animal Family Match: Commotion – Silver
  
  
• TickIT Wild Animal Family Match: Commotion – Silver
  
  
• Culture Cubes: Millwood Education - Bronze

• TickiT Fruit and Vegetable Match: Commotion – Bronze

Outdoor Play

• Outlast Arbour: Community Playthings – Silver
  
  
• Messy Maths: Crownhouse Publishing – Silver
  
  
• A Sense of Place: Bloomsbury Publishing – Silver
  
  
• Kindunk Hooded Playsuits: Kidunk – Silver

• Mud Kitchen Activity Cards: Yellow Door – Silver
  
  
• Imaganeering Blocks: Cosy – Silver
  

Health and Well-being

• Connected Kids Foundation Course – teach kids meditation: Connected Kids – Gold

• My Happy Planet 99.9% Purified Water Biodegradable Eco Wipes: Opus Innovations – Silver
  
  
• What’s Going On Inside My Head?: Bloomsbury Publishing – Bronze

Furniture

• Reading Pod: Cosy –  Silver

Professional Books (add authors)

• Men in Early Years Settings: Building a Mixed Gender Workforce: Jessica Kingsley Publishers – Silver

• Messy Maths: Crown House Publishing –  Silver
  
  
• Understanding Children’s Behaviour: Bloomsbury Publishing – Silver

• 50 Fantastic Ideas for Nursery Gardens: London Early Years Foundation (LEYF) – Silver
  
  
• In All Weathers!: Yellow Door – Bronze

• Can I Go and Play Now? Rethinking the Early Years, by Greg Bottrill: Sage Publications – Bronze
  
  

Staff Resources

• ReallySchool: NetSupport – Gold
  
  
• Early Years TV :Kathy Brodie Early Years Training – Gold
  
  
• Supersonic Phonics: Herts for Learning – Silver
  
  
• Siren Films Early Years Video Clip Library: Siren Films – Silver
  
  
• Schemas: A Practical Handbook – Bloomsbury Publishing – Silver
  
  
• Self-regulation in Early Years: Mine Conkbayir – Silver
  
  
• CACHE Alumni: CACHE – Bronze
  
  
• Just Quality Adding Impact Accreditation: Jigsaw Early Years Consultancy – Bronze
  
  
• Essential Foundations for Counting: Herts for Learning – Bronze
  
  
• Parent Zone: Connect Childcare – Bronze
  
  
• Workforce Development Toolkit: The Education People – Bronze
  
  
• Kinderly Learn:Kinderly – Bronze
  
  
• Kinderly Together: Kinderly – Bronze
  
  
• Tree Top Toddlers: Sport Through Stories – Tree Top Toddlers – Bronze

You can read more about these medal-winning resources in our special awards magazine, distributed with the 30 September issue of Nursery World, and online soon.

• Photos of the event are available at shorturl.at/dEMX6