Widening Horizons - Gold Award From Sutton Trust 2026-27
We are delighted that Kendrick School has been awarded the Sutton Trust Fair School Admissions Award at Gold level 2026/7 for the third year running. The Sutton Trust is an educational charity in the United Kingdom which aims to improve social mobility and address educational disadvantages. The top Gold level is awarded to schools who have made several determined and significant changes to their admissions policies to ensure that there is fair access to all pupils, regardless of socio-economic background.
Kendrick School was recognised for the multiple systems we have in place to support access for children eligible for pupil premium funding within our Widening Horizons project. These include the use of Pupil Premium Priority and a lower admission score for Pupil Premium applicants in the admission policy; our extensive approach to outreach and engagement work including weekly Inspire Club where pupils are supported in their studies by Kendrick students in a fun and inspiring way; our Inspire bulletin packed with helpful information to aid learning; a free online package and provision of practice papers and a test familiarisation day in the summer holidays.
It is part of our aim here at Kendrick to ensure that all young people have 
access to the very best education we can provide.
For further information on our Widening Horizons project, please see our website here or e-mail Admissions@kendrick.reading.sch.uk