Finalists
The full details of all our 2025 ERA finalists are listed below.
This year’s award-winners will be announced at a gala awards ceremony to be held on Thursday, 23rd April 2026 at The National Conference Centre Birmingham.
Early Years Resource or Equipment
- Bloomsbury Education – Let’s Talk picture book series
- I am a Clever Writer Resources – I am a Clever Writer (IAACW) in Reception
- Literacy Counts – Ready Steady Write
- Literacy Counts – Ready Steady Phonics
- Teach Hullabaloo! Music – Teach Hullabaloo! Early Years Music Curriculum
- Yellow Door – Ten in the Bed
- Yellow Door – Birds – Sensory Play Stones
Primary Resource or Equipment – ICT
- 1decision – Primary PSHE/RSHE
- Busythings – Busy Things
- ClickView – ClickView
- Education Shed – Spelling Shed
- FlashAcademy – Transforming the future of EAL teaching and learning
- IXL Learning – IXL
- Jigsaw Education Group – Jigsaw RE
- Language Magnet – Language Magnet Primary MFL Platform
- Learning by Questions – SATs Springboard from Learning by Questions
- Literacy Counts – Ready Steady Spell
- Literacy Counts – Ready Steady Write
- LiteracyPlanet – LiteracyPlanet
- Sky – The Edit
- Smile and Learn Digital Creations S.L. – Smile and Learn
Primary Resource or Equipment – Non-ICT
- Collins – Number Builders
- Collins and Wandle Learning Trust – Little Wandle Fluency Programme and Big Cat for Little Wandle Fluency books
- Commando Joe’s – Let’s Play
- Kapow Primary – Kapow Primary Science
- Kapow Primary – Kapow Primary Spanish
- Literacy Tree – Literacy Tree Whole-School Membership
- Mrs Mactivity – Spectacular SPaG
- Oxford University Press – Readerful
- Promote Your School – Wall Art by Promote Your School
- Settle Stories – Stories For Schools
- Sky Arts Access All Arts – Sky Arts’ Access All Arts Week
- Staedtler – Noris 307 Handwriting Pen
- Teach Hullabaloo! Music – Teach Hullabaloo! Music
- United Curriculum – United Curriculum Primary
- Wild for Life – My Wild Life
Secondary Resource or Equipment – ICT
- FlashAcademy – Transforming the future of EAL teaching and learning
- PG Online – ClearRevise Exam Study Tutor (CREST)
- Sky – The Edit
- Sphero, Inc – Sphero Blueprint Engineering
- Tassomai – Tassomai
Secondary Resource or Equipment – Non-ICT
- Collins – Collins GCSE Maths 5th Edition
- Phonic Books – Mel on Mars
- Promote Your School – Wall Art by Promote Your School
- The Talk About Trust – Drugs, Alcohol and Nicotine Education Workbook
Secondary Resource or Equipment – Tools for leadership, management & assessment
- High Speed Training – Safeguarding INSET day pack
- ImpactEd Group – Understanding Attendance
- Lightspeed Systems – Lightspeed Insight
- Olex.AI – Olex.AI
- Reteach – Reteach
- SmartEducator – SmartEducator/AI Marking Tool/Sendient
- Welbee – Data Insights, featuring Edu Intelligence
Special Education Resource or Equipment - in association with nasen
- Academy21 – Academy21
- Avantis Education – ClassVR
- B Squared – SENDcast
- Phonic Books – Mel on Mars
- Smile and Learn Digital Creations S.L. – Smile and Learn
- Speech & Language Link – Secondary Language Link
- The Dyslexia Shop – The Dyslexia Shop Ltd
- The Talk About Trust – The Talk About Alcohol, Cannabis and Vaping Games and Activity Pack for SEN and alternative settings
- Touch-type Read and Spell (TTRS) – TTRS Online
- Wild for Life – My Wild Life
Leadership in Education - in association with NAHT
- Jo Mumford – Elysian Animal Assisted Interventions
- Natasha Chalk – EK Outreach Services
- The Executive Leadership Team – Hopedale Children and family services
- Trystan Williams – E-ACT Venturers’ Academy
Classroom Teaching Aids
- Language Magnet – Language Magnet Primary MFL Platform
- Lightspeed Systems – Lightspeed Classroom
- Mrs Mactivity – Spectacular SPaG
- Settle Stories – Stories For Schools
- The Day – The Day
Collaboration Between School & Supplier Award
- Academy21 – Academy21
- Amazing People Schools – Amazing People Schools and LEO Academy Trust
- Concero Education Technology – DfE Benchmark / IT Support / Broadband & Infrastructure
- Elementary Technology – Elementary Technology in collaboration with Keelham Primary School
- Hemisphere Education – Hemisphere Education and Heartlands High School
- Literacy Tree – Literacy Tree / An Daras Trust
- Picture News – Picture News and St Nicholas CE Primary Academy
- Promote Your School – Promote Your School/ Chapel Hill Primary School
- Satchel – Satchel One
- School Badges UK – School Badges UK
Educational Book Award
- Bloomsbury Education – Teaching a Diverse Primary Art Curriculum
- Bloomsbury Education – SEND Strategies for the Primary Years
- Collins – Big Cat contemporary poetry books
- Collins – Glow Up Your Grades
- Let’s Talk Behaviour – Danielle Douglas – Let’s Talk Behaviour – Danielle Douglas
- PG Online – ClearRevise Exam Study Tutor (CREST)
- Technical One Limited – 11+ Essentials – Maths Dictionary Plus: Essential Definitions,Example Questions & Practice
Free Educational Resources
- LGfL – Safeskills
- Reteach – Reteach
- Sky Arts – Sky Arts’ Access All Arts Week
- Speech & Language Link – The Link Community
- We Are Futures – Energising Futures
Indoor & Outdoor furniture or equipment award
- Metalliform Holdings – Metalliform Holdings Ltd
- Promote Your School – Wall Art by Promote Your School
Online Safety Award
- LGfL Super Cloud – Online Safety Award
- What2Learn – The OSA Online Safety School Package
Wellbeing Award
- High Speed Training – Safeguarding INSET day pack
- Lightspeed Systems – Lightspeed Alert
- nurtureuk – Boxall Profile® Online
- nurtureuk – Theory and Practice of Nurture Groups
- The Day – The Day
- Welbee – The Welbee Way
- What2Learn – The Resilient Schools Wellbeing Package, by What2Learn Ltd
The Rising Star Award
- Alice Wood – Literacy Tree
- Anna Carter- High Speed Training
- Chris Lock – SmartEducator
- Claire Chambers – Speech & Language Link
- Daniel Somers – Language Magnet
- Eleanor Austin- 1decision
- Hannah Holford – Hopedale Children and Family Services
- Kirsty Doyle – Commando Joe’s
- Sam Wainwright – Technical One
- Sarah Lawson – Quick – Kapow Primary
- Tara Thomas – Ascent Autism Specialist 16-25 College
