Our games feature Mr Bloom himself (and his puppet vegetables!)
We’re pleased as punch to say that our interactive content for the first in-house CBeebies production to come out of BBC North – Mr Bloom’s Nursery – launches this week.
Mr Bloom’s Nursery is a new BBC TV series and interactive website for 3–4-year-olds. Filmed on location in Manchester, it follows the magical adventures of Mr Bloom and a group of vegetable friends, including Margaret the shy cabbage, Colin the excitable runner bean, and cheeky radishes the Wee McGregors. The show invites young viewers to join three children (the tiddlers) in tending Mr Bloom’s allotment.
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Late last year we came in at number 12 in the Recommended Agency Register’s (RAR) poll of the top 100 agencies outside London. Hooray!
Following the results we were also asked to share our thoughts on what we thought our clients should be doing in 2011. We put the feelers out to everyone here at The Workshop and collected everyone’s answers.
This is what we came up with:
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Today is the last working day of the year here at The Workshop, but rest assured the office will be all revved up to go again come 4 January. In the meantime, our account and project managers will keep an eye on their email over the holiday period in case of emergencies.
Have a fantastic Christmas, enjoy your well-earned break and see you in the New Year.
We’re very excited to tell you about a new venture that we’ve launched to offer an easier, low-risk style of apprenticeship to small and medium-sized businesses.
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Last week was quite a week here at The Workshop. After the high of winning two Cream awards on Thursday, we picked up award number three on Friday night from DADI in Leeds, Best Public Sector Website for Diploma Support.
Diploma Support was one of The Workshop’s biggest-ever projects: four industry partners (including the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, Pearson and LSN), a multimillion-pound budget and a delivery team of more than 50 people. We won the contract in 2008 from the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) to deliver a comprehensive package of Diploma training events, consultancy, publications and online support to teachers.
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We went along to the Cream Yorkshire Awards last night. Our work on Roundabout’s 2009-2010 annual report was nominated in two categories – ‘Craft’ and ‘Publications and Annual Report’ – and managed to scoop awards in both. Hooray!
Just a note to say thank you to those of you who voted for Mission:Explore in the recent Orange Mobile Volunteering competition. It was one of the top three voted community winners for the topic ‘Apps doing good on the go – built or in development’.
Mission:Explore will now go through to the next judging phase, where 10 apps will be chosen from all categories to receive direct promotion to Orange customers.
You can find out more about Mission:Explore in our launch post.
A selection of our work for BBC jam
It’s been a long journey, but we’re delighted that some of the wonderful work we did for BBC jam back in 2007 has finally reached its rightful destination on the BBC website. We brought exciting educational content to life through design, animation and development for Key Stage 1 Welsh, Key Stage 2 Science and Key Stage 3 French.
The material has now been versioned into Welsh and is being used on the BBC Wales website as part of their learning offer for young Welsh learners. Much of the work we did on these projects involved creating immersive ‘worlds’ from which to launch interactive content. Originally we worked closely with the BBC in the early days of Jam to research and consult on the shape of the service.
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We’ve developed an accessible media player and we’re making it available to download for free right here on our website.
We started building our player towards the end of 2009 and have already used it as part of our work with clients. But with few robust, accessible players out there, we began to think about how we could do more with what we’d created.
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