Sherston Education

Sherston Software is pleased to announce that its flagship product 'Early Years World' has been shortlisted for the Education Resource Awards 2012 - Best Early Years Resource or Equipment - involving ICT.

Sherston Software is pleased to announce the completion and integration of the “Adaptive Learning Engine” into Sherston's flagship online product, Planet Sherston.

Come and meet the team on stand B56 this year where we will be launching Early Years World and Planet Sherston. Planet Sherston is a whole world of learning for 5-12 year olds featuring an Adaptive Learning Engine, thousands of online activities and a unique alien nurturing game to motivate youngsters outside of the classroom - includes free access at home, free training and competitive pricing!

 Sherston is delighted to have been awarded 2 finalist awards in the edtech digest COOL TOOL AWARD 2011 for the following products: The Big Bus 2.0 (new product or service category) The Red Pen (assessment solution category) For more info click here.

  Divided into age ranges and levels of difficulty children age 2 to 5 can embark on 56 mini-adventures, learning as they play and providing printed record sheets for evidencing achievement. Benefits Help young learners along their learning journeys Printed record sheets – perfect for Child Development Records and ‘Parents as Partners’ GO DO activity sheets extend learning away from the computer ‘Well Done Certificates’ to motivate and reward your children Access both online and offline   Click here for more informaton and to sign up for a free trial.  

 "Exciting", "Imaginative" and "Engaging" - these are some of the “WOW” words that will spring to mind as you browse through our new 2012 Sherston Software and TAG Learning catalogue.

 Planet Sherston now includes powerful new course building features headlining the latest upgrades to this popular resource.

The Big Bus 2.0 from Sherston Software is pleased to have been selected as a finalist in the SIIA CODiE Awards for 2011.

Partnership set to provide schools and educational institutes state-of-the-art online educational content on a flexible, cloud based platform.

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Sherston software  is pleased to announce that The Big Bus 2 has won a BESSIE 2011 awards in the USA.

  Coming to you in March – the launch of Planet Sherston… Set your pupils on a rocket-propelled educational journey.

The new Sherston catalogue for 2011 is now available to preview. Click here to be the first to see the brand new offerings from Sherston software    

Visitors to this year's Scottish Learning Festival in Glasgow had a sneak preview of Planet Sherston, the powerful new interactive world of learning for children aged three to eleven.

Percy Parker, the popular educational computer game from Sherston Software, launches as an App for the iPhone.

Sherston, part of BLi Education, is pleased to announce the launch of 'ReacTickles for SMART Table', the first UK published 3rd party application for this innovative multi-touch technnology platform.

  RM Community Connect 4 (CC4) Networks - Coming Soon: Over 100 MSI packages! We are pleased to advise our customers that RM CC4 MSI packages for over 100 of Sherston’s most popular titles are now being tested and we hope to make these available soon.

Sherston, part of BLi Education, is pleased to announce its expansion into the American education market with the opening of a North American office.

Our most popular offer ever!

Goodbye eLearning credits, hello Harnessing Technology Grant!

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Sherston now stocks a brand new version of the award winning Digital Movie Creator video camera - the Digital Movie Creator 3 Education Version (blue model only).

Sherston has scooped an impressive ten awards at the Practical Pre-School Awards 2007.

Sherston has today launched Rain Forest Music, a piece of creative software that provides Key Stage 2 children with the perfect interactive environment to express their imagination through music and visual composition.

Children preparing for next month’s SATs tests can now use a new online service to support their English, Maths and Science revision.

Sherston and Thingimibobs have today unveiled a new CD-ROM that helps young children take their first steps in ICT, safely guided by three friendly Jellybods - Wibble, Wobble and Flump the Dog.

Three exciting new science CD-ROMs have just been launched: Polka Dot Park: Growth and Polka Dot Park: Habitats for Foundation Stage; and The Science Express for Key Stage 1. Polka Dot Park: Growth helps three to five year-olds to develop their knowledge and understanding of the world, with a focus on growth and living things.

Sherston has launched the fantastic Operation Minibeast CD-ROM for science and ICT.

Knowledge is power, so Sherston have launched an encyclopedic software tool for ICT and literacy for three to five year olds entitled: The Magic Beanbag.

Sherston scooped an amazing seven Practical Pre-School Awards 2006 for its educational software titles at a Champagne Breakfast Presentation on 29 September in London.

Hot on the heels of the World Cup, leading educational software publisher, Sherston kicks off the autumn term – and the new premier league football season – with a new CD-ROM for junior school children aimed at helping them score top marks for spelling. On the Ball is an action-packed football-themed CD-ROM containing four exciting games: Penalty, Free Kick, Offside and Corner to help 7-11 year olds enjoy learning their spellings.  Children can choose their own football team kit and name, create their own word lists and then choose to play against a classmate or the computer.

Learning about Religion  from prolific educational software publisher Sherston, is a new CD-ROM resource for 7-11 year-olds that contains animated reference books on the six major British religions including: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism.

In the time it takes to wave a magic wand, 7-11 year-olds can learn everything they need to know about spreadsheets for ICT and numeracy with software specialist Sherston’s newest title, The Wizard’s Apprentice for PCs.

Young learners are in for a few surprises with the launch of two new interactive CD-ROMs for PCs designed to develop basic skills for 3-5 year olds from prolific educational software publisher, Sherston.  Bringing a well-loved theme right up to date, Young MacDonald’s Farm  is a modern take on a traditional story, with Old MacDonald’s daughter now in the tractor’s driving seat and running the farm her way.

Evil eco-exterminator Gomez and mild-mannered adversary Professor Roberts star in two new action-packed data logging and problem-solving CD-ROMs for juniors from Sherston for PCs entitled Gomez Returns and Professor Roberts’ ICT Problem Solving Kit. In Gomez Returns, the pair appear together in a series of exciting activities designed to get children thinking and problem-solving, while in Professor Roberts’ ICT Problem Solving Kit, the clever character Professor Roberts takes centre stage to present his fascinating range of brain-teasers to young users.   Making his ghastly re-appearance from Mission Control in Gomez Returns, Gomez, the infamous nature-hating villain, goes on a trail of destruction and must be tracked down and stopped before he causes untold damage to the world around him.

Young learners are in for a few surprises with the launch of two new interactive CD-ROMS designed to develop basic skills for 3-5 year olds from Sherston (Stand M50) at The Education Show 2006.  Bringing a well-loved theme right up to date, Young MacDonald’s Farm  is a modern take on a traditional story, with Old MacDonald’s daughter now in the tractor’s driving seat and running the farm her way.

Perfect for establishing good typing and mouse skills from the word go, new early years and infant CD-ROMs, Type with Tizzy and Tizzy’s Busy Week from Sherston encourage correct use of the keyboard and mouse by young pupils – laying solid foundations for the computer skills they’ll need throughout life. Both interactive programs use engaging scenarios to help familiarise young children with these essential tools and develop their competence – Type with Tizzy, suitable for ages 4-7, concentrates on the keyboard, while Tizzy’s Busy Week, aimed at 3-5 year-olds, focuses on mouse control.

Infant CD-ROM Measure Up!

Sweeping the board at the recent Practical Pre-school Awards 2005 and Nursery World Awards 2005, educational software publisher Sherston this week celebrates as it rides high on a tide of success. At the Practical Pre-school Awards 2005 in London, Sherston popped the champagne corks after winning five awards for the following CD-ROM titles: abc-CD Special Edition (silver), Sherston Skill Builders - Volume 2 (bronze), BBC Faiths and Celebrations (bronze), Izzy's Story Skills (bronze), Oxford Reading Tree First Phonics Talking Stories Stage 1 (bronze).

Figuring out mathematics – pupils can now take numeracy learning into their own hands using Numeracy Box R, Numeracy Box 1 and Numeracy Box 2  from Sherston.

Building on the success of Where in the World is Barnaby Bear? and Magic Grandad’s Seaside Holidays, Sherston and BBC Worldwide Children’s Learning, are launching five new CD-ROMs for infant geography and history at BETT 2006.

UK educational software company Sherston’s South African subsidiary, Sherston-Sheshani, is challenging rising rates of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections by trialing a new educational computer game in South Africa.

Young Einstein’s will soon be able to benefit from educational software publisher Sherston’s new Junior Science series of CD-ROMs for 7-11 year-olds which promise to put the magic back into science.

Powerful and easy to use, mangodata from Sherston and MightyMango helps primary and secondary aged pupils create and analyse their own databases.

Hands-on students can get to grips with typing skills, spelling and vocabulary with Sherston’s new CD-ROM for PCs, Easi Keysi.

Bridging the basic skills gap to ensure all students get up to GCSE standard by the time they leave school, leading educational software publisher, Sherston has launched Literacy Bank 7.

Izzy’s Story Skills – Goldilocks and the Three Bears  is the perfect tool for teaching literacy in early years settings.

Popping the champagne corks, leading Wiltshire-based educational software company Sherston, scooped three awards at the annual Wiltshire Business of the Year Awards at the De Vere Hotel in Shaw Ridge on 28 February 2005, just days after securing a publishing deal with Australia’s most prominent educational software publisher Dataworks.

Numeracy skills don’t grow on trees but Sherston’s new CD-ROM The Money Mice  for Key Stage 1 answers the $64M question: how can teachers teach money-related learning objectives through ICT? Presented through colourful and engaging graphics, each of the six money-related activities on this CD-ROM are designed to help children to practice essential skills like coin recognition, spending, buying, selling, earning and saving money. Getting the tills ringing, children help rodent characters Marlon, Mack, Molly and Maz when they visit the school fair.

Enhancing the teaching and learning of science in schools, Sherston is launching the BBC Science Simulations  series at BETT 2005.

Teachers’ favourite Sherston (Stand SW4) will be unveiling the BBC Faiths & Celebrations CD-ROM for children aged five to seven at The Education Show 2005.

Solving the mystery of how to enhance the teaching of ICT and geography, Sherston (Stand E60) is launching The Web Detectives, The Map Detectives: Rural Mystery and Urban Mystery CD-ROMs at BETT 2005.

An updated version of Sherston bestseller abc-CD - Talking Animated Alphabet, abc-CD Special Edition  for PC and Mac combines the quality of its much loved predecessor abc-CD - Talking Animated Alphabet with a range of essential new features and activities.

Shortlisted in the Early Years and Primary Software, Content and Tools category for the prestigious BETT Awards 2005, Sherston relaunched bestseller The Crystal Rain Forest at BETT in January this year.