Twofour Communicationshas won two prestigious New York Festivals 2008 awards. Ordinary Day, a film produced for the British Heart Foundation explaining emergency life support skills to children, has won the top prize in the New York Festivals 2008 Film and Video Trophy earning the Gold World Medal in the Safety and First Aid category. The trophy was presented at the Tribeca Rooftop on Thursday 31st January. Twofour's Watch Us Grow series for Teachers' TV was also recognised in the New York Festivals 2008 Television Broadcasting Awards, which took place the following evening, winning a Silver World Award in the Educational/Instructional TV category.

Richard Wallis, Head of Twofour Learning said: "Ordinary Day was a very exciting project to work on - anything that can give children the knowledge and confidence to do the right thing in an emergency and help them to save lives is very rewarding. I am proud that the work we have done for the British Heart Foundation has been recognised internationally. Likewise Watch Us Grow is an inspirational film encouraging teachers to teach children how to grow and cook their own food. It is great that both projects have been screened in the US and have impressed the judges there. "

About Ordinary Day
Ordinary Day is aimed at giving children between the ages of 5 and 16 emergency life-support skills (ELS) all the way from making an emergency telephone call through to CPR. This video contains a brief introduction to ELS followed by seven self-contained scenarios, each one demonstrating a specific emergency situation, and indicating the correct procedure.

About Watch Us Grow
Watch Us Grow is a 6-part TV series led by the Royal Horticultural Society and funded by Teachers' TV, the DCSF Growing Schools Initiative and the Helen Hamlyn Trust as part of its Open Future programme. As well as being broadcast on Teachers' TV the series is available as part of a comprehensive teachers' pack on DVD. Designed to help teachers incorporate gardening, cooking and related skills into schools the programmes feature all ages of children from a secondary school in Sittingbourne, where behaviour and attendance has dramatically improved since the boys become involved in community gardening, to a primary in Manchester that is building an ambitious rooftop vegetable garden.