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Reading Award

Reading for pleasure is the single biggest indicator of a child’s future success. Demonstrate your commitment to reading and elevate your pupils’ life chances with the One Education Reading Award.

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Reading Award

The One Education Reading Award is the only Reading Quality Mark that supports schools with the development of their entire Reading curriculum.

We will support your school as you work towards the bronze, silver or gold award, promoting literacy and the pleasure of reading. With over 100 schools involved across the country, you will also have the chance to join our network of Reading Award partner schools, learning and growing in practice together.

Choose one of three awards to work towards:

Bronze: good provision is evident in Reading
Silver: excellent provision is evident in Reading
Gold: excellent provision is embedded across all areas of Reading

You will have one calendar year to complete the award, using the criteria and over 250 resources to guide your development of Reading.

Reading Award accreditation lasts for 3 years. It can then be renewed through a streamlined assessment process.

Reading Award for Secondary Schools

A strong Reading curriculum is crucial to a successful secondary-level education. By developing students’ reading, both for purpose and for pleasure, we can give them the very best chance to succeed at school and beyond.

Working towards the Secondary Reading Award will strengthen your pupils’ skills in three key areas, inspiring the next generation of readers:

Reading for Fluency

Reading for Meaning
Reading for Enjoyment

Special Schools and Alternative Provision

Working with a wide range of schools and settings, our consultants understand how to create meaningful reading environments to meet a diverse set of needs.

We will work closely with your team to tailor approaches, interventions and resources to engage all children in reading, inspiring a love for books and storytelling and improving pupil outcomes.

Our Packages

There are 3 main packages for your school to choose from, however we can also offer bespoke packages to reflect the needs of your school, cluster, or multi-academy trust. You will also be assigned a Reading Award consultant to support your journey with advice and recommendations.

All packages include the following essentials:

An individual Reading Award log on
Access to the Reading Award criteria and guidance
Access to the resources hub and secure evidence upload hub
Access to online CPD including webinars
Support via email

An online evidence review and feedback
A Reading Award plaque and logo on completion

Package 1 provides schools with online access to the Reading Award. This is ideal for schools that feel confident to work through the award without bespoke support. However, schools that purchase Package 1 can upgrade to an evidence review in school if they wish.

Our other packages offer bespoke in-school support in addition to all the essentials listed above. This support can be completed both remotely or face-to-face, depending on the preference of the school.

Package 2 offers 2 half days of in-school support.

Package 3 offers 4 half days of in-school support.

Examples of in-school support include: reviewing current practice against the Reading Award criteria; reviewing book stock; conducting CPD training for staff, and much more.

Take part and celebrate your children’s achievements, boosting their motivation, fostering a love of learning, and creating a positive classroom culture.

How Businesses Support our Reading Award

By becoming one of our valued partners, businesses help us to develop reading in the schools where it is needed most, making a huge difference to schools and their pupils.

We offer a variety of sponsorship opportunities, as well as the option for businesses to work alongside our consultants to develop a bespoke CSR project that suits their particular needs.

A big thank you to all our Business Reading Champions!

Reading Award

The One Education Reading Award is the only Reading Quality Mark that supports schools with the development of their entire Reading curriculum.

Choose one of three awards to work towards:

Bronze: good provision is evident in Reading
Silver: excellent provision is evident in Reading
Gold: excellent provision is embedded across all areas of Reading

You will have one calendar year to complete the award, using the criteria and over 250 resources to guide your development of Reading.

Reading Award accreditation lasts for 3 years. It can then be renewed through a streamlined assessment process.

Reading Award for Secondary Schools

Working towards the Secondary Reading Award will strengthen your pupils’ skills in three key areas, inspiring the next generation of readers:

Reading for Fluency

Reading for Meaning
Reading for Enjoyment

Special Schools and Alternative Provision

Working with a wide range of schools and settings, our consultants understand how to create meaningful reading environments to meet a diverse set of needs.

We will work closely with your team to tailor approaches, interventions and resources to engage all children in reading, inspiring a love for books and storytelling and improving pupil outcomes.

Our Packages

All packages include the following essentials:

An individual Reading Award log on
Access to the Reading Award criteria and guidance
Access to the resources hub and secure evidence upload hub
Access to online CPD including webinars
Support via email

An online evidence review and feedback
A Reading Award plaque and logo on completion

Package 2 offers 2 half days of in-school support.

Package 3 offers 4 half days of in-school support.

Examples of in-school support include: reviewing current practice against the Reading Award criteria; reviewing book stock; conducting CPD training for staff, and much more.

Take part and celebrate your children’s achievements, boosting their motivation, fostering a love of learning, and creating a positive classroom culture.

How Businesses Support our Reading Award

By becoming one of our valued partners, businesses help us to develop reading in the schools where it is needed most, making a huge difference to schools and their pupils.

We offer a variety of sponsorship opportunities, as well as the option for businesses to work alongside our consultants to develop a bespoke CSR project that suits their particular needs.

A big thank you to all our Business Reading Champions!

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Why choose the One Education Reading Award?

Our team benefits from the expertise of leading specialists in Reading, including a curriculum expert for the DfE. With creative solutions and strategies, our consultants will help you to embed a strong reading culture at your school, raising standards and pupil attainment.

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The process has been very supportive, really helping school improvement. We aren’t finished yet, but the award is already having a huge impact on raising the profile of reading across school.

Sally JudgeDelamere School

We wanted to complete the award to offer an opportunity to evaluate our current and future work in reading. We found the process extremely supportive and powerful – it enabled our school to build on what we currently do and work on what we need to. Children’s outcomes and the quality of reading experiences vastly improved, with the award bringing collaboration and consistency.

Helena AngstmannSt. Joseph's Catholic Primary Academy

We chose to work towards the award to raise the profile of reading in our school, to train staff on how to teach reading effectively and to help children enjoy reading more. Completing the award is raising the awareness and importance of reading for teachers, children and parents. It has been a turning point for our school.

Afsheen BassirianPeel Hall Primary School

The One Education Reading Award was extremely helpful in supporting us to review and refine what we were already doing, identify gaps in our provision, and think creatively about how to fill those gaps, particularly in the light of what was appropriate for us in a special school. The process has been really helpful to our literacy subject leader. Her confidence has grown enormously and she has learned how to think more strategically. Most of all, we have seen steady improvements in children’s attainment data and we now have a strong reading culture at Delamere.

Sally JudgeDelamere School

Since working towards the Reading Award and reviewing our current reading offer, we have had the opportunity to look at reading at St James' with a fresh pair of eyes. We have seen a huge increase in parental engagement with reading and participation numbers for all of our reading events. This is impacting on how our parents read with their children at home and outcomes for children. Children are taking the lead for reading in school and are supporting other children with their reading choices. Pupil voice shows that reading is a priority and at the forefront of everything we do.

James RoltSt James' Church of England Primary School

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