A Crystal Celebration

This award celebrates libraries which help make reading accessible to all. This could be a formal long-standing city library at the heart of your community, or shelves full of books and audio tapes for loan, or even the most remote phone box serving as a wonderful book exchange.

Entry Details: This category is open to UK libraries (whether formal or homespun) of any size or shape. Photos and video submissions are welcome, and we encourage you to consider capturing what the library looks like, how it originated, and who it serves.

This award celebrates school librarians who have passionately created a vision, space and actions to not only promote reading for pleasure but also position the library as central to the strategic development of their school.

Entry Details: This category is open to all UK-based schools, colleges, provisions, or Trusts. Submissions can include photos, short stories, and video interviews. You might want to consider featuring testimonials or insights into how that individual is transforming lives.

This award celebrates the creative writing talents of our young people across the UK, with entries to include a literary piece in any writing style with the theme being 'crystal' to celebrate this year's awards. Writing could be comical or creative, clever or quirky. The core intention is for us to be able to celebrate that young person’s motivation and talent.

Entry Details: This category is open to any young person under the age of 18 living in the UK. Submissions must include a title and the written work, including the theme of ‘CRYSTAL’ as we are celebrating our Crystal (15th) Anniversary. There is no cap on word count or restriction on writing style.

Ownership of all work submitted will remain the property of the young person, but we’d love to publish the winning piece on our website and refer to it via our social media. Please be sure to let us know whether you’re happy for the young person to be featured in onward publicity (or have permission from the correct person).

This award celebrates the poetic talents of our young people across the UK, with entries being a piece of written poetry, whether a haiku, sonnet or epic, with the theme being 'crystal' to celebrate this year's awards.

Entry Details: This category is open to any young person under the age of 18 living in the UK. Submissions must include a title and the written works including the theme of ‘CRYSTAL’ as we are celebrating our Crystal (15th) Anniversary. There is no cap on word count.

Ownership of all work submitted will remain the property of the young person, but we’d love to publish the winning piece on our website and in social media in due course. Please be sure to let us know whether you’re happy for the young person to be featured in onward publicity (or have permission from the correct person).

This award goes to the young person who has carved their own creative path in storytelling and narrative, submitting a graphic story with the theme being 'crystal' to celebrate this year's awards.

Entry Details: This category is open to any young person under the age of 18 living in the UK. Submissions must include a title and the written works including the theme of ‘CRYSTAL’ as we are celebrating our Crystal (15th) Anniversary. There is no cap on word count.

Ownership of all work submitted will remain the property of the young person, but we’d love to share the winning piece on our website and social media. Please be sure to let us know whether you’re happy for the young person to be featured in onward publicity (or have permission from the correct person).

This award celebrates colleagues who ensure their reading and literacy policy isn’t just a checklist but is part of the infrastructure, with values and pedagogy being embraced by all staff across the entire institution.

Entry Details: This category is open to all UK-based schools, colleges, provisions, or Trusts. Submissions can include photos, short stories, and video interviews.

This award celebrates colleagues who forge a path for all learners, and advocates for their progress and voice within the institution without question.

Entry Details: This category is open to all UK-based schools, colleges, provisions, or Trusts. Submissions can include photos, short stories, and video interviews. Please also consider testimonials about this individual.

This award celebrates individuals and whole schools doing something incredible to embrace and improve literacy this year, for example, creating the best reading culture across a school, taking an innovative approach to encouraging reading, making reading accessible to all, taking extra steps to support English as an additional language, etc.

Entry Details: This category is open to all UK-based schools, colleges, provisions, or Trusts. Submissions can include photos, short stories, and video interviews.

This award celebrates the school, college or provision with the highest percentage of learners completing reading assessments during the 2024/25 academic year.

Entry Details: This award is open to Lexonik Advance customers across the UK. All customers are automatically entered!

This award celebrates the successful implementation of the Lexonik Leap programme and is demonstrating impact via the accurate use of the diagnostic assessment. Consideration will not just be given to the number of learners enrolled on the programme but also to the effective use of the diagnostic and the number of completed assessments.

Entry Details: This award is open to Lexonik Leap customers across the UK. All customers are automatically entered!

This award celebrates schools and colleges embracing a whole-school literacy approach and has the highest percentage of active users.

Entry Details: This award is open to Lexonik Vocabulary customers across the UK. All customers are automatically entered!

This award celebrates standout customers who not only embrace our literacy programmes in their school, college or trust, but who recommend Lexonik to family, friends and colleagues.

Entry Details: This award is open to Lexonik customers across the UK. All customers are automatically entered! Our Account Managers at Lexonik will be making their nominations.

This award celebrates coordinators who have fully embraced the programmes and go the extra mile to promote outstanding literacy practices in their school, college, provision or across their Trust.

Entry Details: This award is open to Lexonik customers across the UK. Our Regional Trainers at Lexonik will be making their nominations.

This award celebrates schools that have fully embraced and implemented Lexonik programmes and awareness across their school, college, provision or Trust.

Entry Details: This award is open to Lexonik customers across the UK. Our Senior Management Team at Lexonik will be making their nominations.

This award will celebrate our longest-serving trainer of any Lexonik intervention programme in our 15 years.

Entry Details: This award is open to Lexonik customers across the UK. All customers are automatically entered!