ALL ARE TRULY OUTSTANDING.

DURHAM: Aclet Close Nursery School, Bishop Auckland; Barnardo's Disability Service North East, Chester-le-Street; Chester-le-Street C of E Junior School; Crook Nursery School; DFW Adoption, Durham; Durham Local Authority Fostering Service, Newton Aycliffe; Hartside Primary School, Crook; Ludworth Primary School, Durham; Lumley Infant and Nursery School, Chester-le-Street; Oakley Cross Primary School and Nursery, Bishop Auckland; Ouston Infant School, Chester-le-Street; Oxclose Nursery School, Spennymoor; Red Rose Primary School, Chester-le-Street; Rosemary Lane Nursery School, Peterlee; St John's Church of England Aided Primary School, Shildon; St Oswald's Church of England Aided Infant and Nursery School, Durham; The Hermitage School, Chester-le-Street; The Sunshine Day Nursery, Peterlee; Thornhill Primary School, Shildon; Willington C of E Primary School, Crook; Wingate Community Nursery School, Wingate.

GATESHEAD: Bensham Grove Nursery School; Brandling Primary School; Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School; Fellside Community Primary School; Furrowfield School; Kells Lane Primary School; St Mary and St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary School; St Oswald's Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School; Whickham Parochial Church of England Primary School.

NEWCASTLE: Central Newcastle High School Junior Department; Gosforth High School; Hadrian School; Kingston Park Primary School; Monkchester Road Nursery School; Moorside Community Primary School; Newcastle College; SWIIS Foster Care; Sacred Heart High School; St Cuthbert's RC Primary School; St John Vianney RC Primary; Walkergate Early Years Centre; Westfield School.

NORTH TYNESIDE: Glebe School, Whitley Bay; North Tyneside Fostering Service, Percy Hedley School; Priory Primary School, North Shields; Riverside Primary School, North Shields; Shiremoor Primary School; Sir James Knott Memorial Nursery School, Tynemouth; St Thomas More Roman Catholic High School, North Shields; Team Fostering, Wallsend; The Kings School, Tynemouth; Westmoor Primary School.

NORTHUMBERLAND: Beaufront First School; Bedlington Whitley Memorial Church of England First School; Little Angels Fun Club and Nursery Day Care, Cramlington; Meadowdale Middle School, Bedlington; Morpeth First School; Princess Louise Pre-School Nursery, Blyth; Seaton Terrace Nursery School; The King Edward VI School, Morpeth.

SOUTH TYNESIDE: Bedewell Early Years Excellence Centre, Hebburn; Clervaux Nursery School, Jarrow; East Boldon Infants' School; Hadrian Primary School, South Shields; St Matthew's RC Voluntary Aided Primary School, Jarrow.

SUNDERLAND: Columbia Grange, Washington; Springwell Dene, Sunderland; St Michael's Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary, Houghton-le-Spring; Town End Primary, Sunderland.