School Journal Wins Gold!

SCHOOL JOURNAL WINS GOLD!

No matter your age, if you attended primary school in NZ, you will probably recall the day you graduated from Rainbow Readers to your first School Journal.

Still commonplace in NZ schools, the School Journal is this year’s winner of the Best Book in Primary Publishing Award at the CLNZ Educational Publishing Awards. The Award is a bitter sweet. Earlier this year, it was announced that Learning Media, the state owned publisher of the School Journal since 1907, would be closing its doors. Soon after the news, the Ministry of Education announced that Lift Education had secured a contract to continue to publish the School Journal. Lift Education is owned by the winner of the Best Educational Resource for Export at tonight’s event – South Pacific Press.

David Glover, departing CEO of Learning Media accepted the Award and was also presented with a gift by Kevin Chapman (Publishers Association representative) for his contribution to the NZ publishing industry.

Back lit by the twinkling lights of the Harbour Bridge at dusk, the Windy Ridge School Kapa Haka group welcomed guests to the Awards event with a moving performance.

Paula Browning, CEO Copyright Licensing New Zealand and MC for the evening commented that “Entries into this year’s awards demonstrates the strength of New Zealand education publishing. There is significant growth potential for New Zealand in being able to build on existing export markets in the USA, UK, Australia and Canada and to reach into as yet untapped markets in countries like Brazil, Chile, South Korea and China.”

The 2013 winners are as follows:

BEST BOOK OR SERIES IN PRIMARY PUBLISHING

School Journal Level 4 October 2012
Publisher: Learning Media

BEST BOOK OR SERIES IN SECONDARY PUBLISHING

The Story of a Treaty
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Author: Claudia Orange

BEST BOOK IN HIGHER EDUCATION PUBLISHING

The New Zealand Chef 3e
Publisher: Pearson New Zealand
Author: Lesley Christensen-Yule

BEST BOOK OR SERIES IN TE REO MĀORI

Puao Wai Maori Series & Teacher Notes
Publisher: Huia

AND

Te Wharekura 92 – Te Mana o te Kata
Publisher: Learning Media
Author: Kaa Williams

BEST DIGITAL MEDIA SOLUTION

Write that Essay
www.writethatessay.org
Publisher: Hunter Publishing
Author: Dr Ian Hunter

BEST EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE OR PROGRAMME FOR EXPORT

CSI: Chapters
Publisher: South Pacific Press
Author: Neale Pitches

ENDS

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