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From the data collected during the summer holidays, staff
identiÞ ed a number of pupils who encountered barriers to using this
programme. These pupils were provided with appropriate support.

Key stage 3 pupils are now into their second year of Bedrock
Vocabulary learning. Bedrock has had a signiÞ cant positive impact
on students’ reading ages, allowing them to develop their reading
for learning skills.

The graph below shows pupils’ reading ages and Bedrock usage
for the 2020/2021 Year 7 cohort. The blue bars represent how many
students are at a particular reading age. The red line represents
these pupils’ average Bedrock progress over the year. For example,
the 8 pupils with a reading age of between 6 years and 6 years 11
months have shown 29% progress on average.

Year 7 Reading Age and Bedrock Usage Comparison
80

70
65 68
61
60 52 53 56 58 51 59 52
Bedrock Usage (Average %) 40 29 46 26 40 39 25
50

30
20

10 8 14 16 21 17 19 16 19
4 7 5 3
0
05:06 06:00-06:11 07:00-07:11 08:00-08:11 09:00-09:11 10:00-10:11 11:00-11:11 12:00-12:11 13:00-13:11 14:00-14:11 15:00-15:11 16:00-16:11 17:00-17:11 18:00-18:11
Reading age
113/235 (48%) students are below their chronological age. Of them 21(19%) are SEN students and 26 (23%) are PPI students.
Reading age SEN PPI
5:06 2/4 50% 0/4 0%
6:00-6:11 4/8 50% 3/8 38%
7:00-7:11 4/14 29% 5/14 36%
8:00-8:11 3/16 19% 6/16 38%
9:00-9:11 7/26 27% 4/26 15%
10:00-10:11 1/21 5% 5/21 24%

Next steps

The success of the programme means it is now being launched in key
stage 4 and piloted in key stage 5.

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