Partnering with Bedrock across the Harris Federation

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Why Bedrock?

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 main driver for taking Bedrock Federation wide.

Bedrock’s impact

The expansion of Bedrock across the Federation demonstrates how successful the platform has been for the Harris Federation. Anecdotally, throughout all of the Harris Academies teachers find that there are learners eager to show off the new knowledge that they have acquired through Bedrock.

Academy size

52 schools

Bedrock partners with

32 schools (all secondaries)

Free School Meals

38%

SEND

16%

EAL

38%

Bedrock partner since

June 2019

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"When I visit a school and I meet a child that has immersed themselves in Bedrock, and they can show off to me the new words that they have been introduced to and they can use correctly and in context... that means we are doing our job well."

Rebecca Hickey, Secondary Director at Harris Federation

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Harris Federation encompasses 32 secondary academies across London and Essex. Following an early pilot with a single class, Bedrock Learning was expanded out to a whole-school partnership - and is now fully embedded across the entire network of Harris Academies.

Bedrock has been fundamental in helping to meet the needs of all learners throughout the academies, from those with low literacy skills to very high achievers, by providing direct vocabulary instruction at an individual level with a personalised approach.

Unified data and reporting across the Federation, alongside inter-school competitions and the sharing of best practice has seen Bedrock Learning become an integral and successful part of Harris Federation's literacy strategy.

Case Studies

More brilliant case studies...

Improving KS2 SATs and Progress scores at Dial Park Primary School
“It’s unlocked a whole new world of vocabulary for students which, without this, they wouldn’t have been exposed to.”
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Partnering with Bedrock Learning at GEMS Wellington Al Khail
"We've looked at our improvement in NGRT scores, along Bedrock's data, to correlate and show that students are improving... not just in the Bedrock context but in other more formal assessments too."
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Bedrock across the entire curriculum at GEMS Wellington
"Bedrock has really had an impact on the way we are assessing students' subject-specific vocabulary... we're personalising learning so much more."
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Implementation strategies in Middlesbrough
"We've really loved how Bedrock allows students to access at a level suitable for them, but also provides that challenge."
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Targeting low literacy levels in Middlesbrough
"We've really loved how Bedrock allows students to access at a level suitable for them, but also provides that challenge."
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Success in every subject at St Anselm's Catholic School
"Subjects get to cherry-pick their words, but the way that students learn is completely consistent."
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A solution to improve every learner: the data that proves the impact
"The question for our schools in the Trust has to be, if you're not teaching vocabulary, why not; and if you are, why are you not using Bedrock?"
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