Bedrock School Awards 2026
Celebrating the schools and teachers helping pupils build the language, knowledge, and reading confidence they need to succeed.
What are the Bedrock School Awards?
The Bedrock School Awards recognise schools making exceptional progress with Bedrock across language growth, reading comprehension, subject-specific vocabulary, and implementation consistency.
These awards are grounded in the work that matters: helping pupils access the curriculum through stronger vocabulary, deeper knowledge, better reading confidence, and consistent practice.
What can schools win?
There are 12 awards up for grabs.
Each winning school will receive:
- 10 laptop donations to support disadvantaged students and increase their chances of independent study success
- A Bedrock Partner Awards 2026 winner plaque
- Recognition across Bedrock communications and community channels
Award categories
The 2026 awards will recognise excellence in:
- Language Growth: Overall
- Language Growth: Disadvantaged Students
- Language Growth: Students with SEND
- Language Growth: Students with English as an Additional Language
- Reading Comprehension Growth (SAS): Overall
- Reading Comprehension Growth (SAS): Disadvantaged Students
- Reading Comprehension Growth (SAS): Students with SEND
- Reading Comprehension Growth (SAS): Students with English as an Additional Language
- Usage Consistency
- Subject-Specific Language Growth
- Most Consistent Usage for a New School
- The Top Bedrock Teacher
How winners will be selected
Depending on the award, this may include:
- Pre- and post-test language growth
- Bedrock Reading Test SAS growth
- Progress for key pupil groups
- Consistency of usage against expected weekly activity
- Subject-specific language growth
- Teacher-level usage points data
Awards will be reviewed carefully so that schools are recognised fairly and credibly.
Why these awards matter
Every award reflects something important: pupils building the foundations that help them read more confidently, understand more of the curriculum, and learn with greater independence.
Behind every data point is careful implementation, strong routines, teacher commitment, and pupils doing the work that moves learning forward.
What happens next?
On Monday 29th June the awards will be announced via email, socials and this webpage.
Award winners will be contacted directly to coordinate laptop donations and plaques.
For now, this is a moment to celebrate the schools using Bedrock with purpose - and the pupils building knowledge, vocabulary, and confidence lesson by lesson.
For more information, please contact your dedicated School Partnerships Coordinator.
