Case Studies
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Why the Harris Federation chose to partner with Bedrock
In the Harris Federation, vocabulary was identified as a key concern and a barrier to learners developing a love of reading and being able to produce beautiful written work or speaking like a subject expert. Being predominantly in areas of...
Implementation across all subjects at St Anselm's Catholic School
Began in just English, now in every subject across the curriculum. Look at words term by term in every subject department to identify keywords and concepts. Bedrock is mostly set as a homework task across every subject as a pre-learning...
Doubling national literacy progress at St Mary’s CEVA Primary School
St Mary’s CEVA Primary School has been working with Bedrock for a number of years through regular classroom and home learning. This school has chosen to deeply embed Bedrock in their literacy strategy thanks to its personalised approach...
Data & Reporting within Harris Federation academies
A huge benefit of Bedrock for the Federation Literacy Lead, Charlotte Evans, is the way that data and reports are shared across the federation, with monthly usage data for all academies being sent to Charlotte to give her a holistic view of...
Improving reading comprehension by 20% for KS3 learners at Taverham High School
Like all schools, Taverham witnessed the impact of the coronavirus lockdown and the associated learning loss. In particular, Taverham have identified a negative impact on both general reading levels as well as oracy with their learners and...
Impacting outcomes for Pupil Premium, EAL and SEND learners at Harris Federation
The majority of Harris Academies are in areas of high deprivation, with some schools that have as high as 60% pupil premium and up to 46% EAL. Therefore many learners may come from backgrounds where they may not have bookshelves filled with...
Why we chose to partner with Bedrock at St. Anselm's
With Ofstead putting an increased onus on improving literacy across schools, the Literacy Lead at St Anselm’s wanted to find a solution that would work across all key stages and support their students to improve their understanding of...
Using Bedrock for the humanities at St. Anselm's
A key challenge identified in the humanities department is that learners are seemingly less inclined to read long texts, preferring bite-sized chunks of information and these smaller snippets often don’t include that academic vocabulary...
Why we partnered with Bedrock at Coston Primary
“If a child can’t read, they’re at a disadvantage from the very beginning because reading is everywhere” - Lynn Porter . Literacy is an important focus for Coston Primary and they wanted an online program that would engage their learners...
Partnering with Bedrock across the Harris Federation
There is a shared belief across the Harris Federation, that a learners socioeconomic background should never determine their outcomes, in education and beyond. The idea that every single learner requires vocabulary to be successful was the...
Successful implementation at Hellesdon High School
Hellesdon High School identified a significant reading age gap between their Pupil Premium (PP) learners and their non-PP learners. Not content to allow this gap to widen, Hellesdon wanted to take action and find a curriculum that would...
Bedrock for primary and secondary learners at Swindon Academy
Swindon Academy wanted to encourage all of their teachers to take ownership of vocabulary and literacy, not leaving it as a solely English department issue. They also wanted a program that would work for the majority of their school, from...