The Bernice McCabe Award

The PTI’s Bernice McCabe Award promotes and celebrates excellence in subject leadership, recognising departments that put quality subject teaching at the heart of the classroom. The £5,000 prize and trophy is awarded annually to an exceptional department which demonstrates the ethos and values of the PTI through their work within and beyond the curriculum. 

The 2025/26 winner will be announced at The PTI Awards dinner on the 27th November 2025. The three nominated departments are:

  • Science - Southend High School for Boys
  • Maths - Plashet School, London
  • English - The Whitstable School

Find out more about each of the nominated schools by clicking on the tabs above.

Bernice McCabe OBE, who sadly passed away in February 2019, was the founding Co-Director of The PTI and believed in the transformative power of inspiring subject teaching. To remember Bernice, and to promote inspiring work driven by the values of The PTI, we have created the Bernice McCabe Award. The Bernice McCabe Award is awarded annually to a practising subject leader in a PTI member department.

 The winner of the 2024/25 Award was the Maths department at The Warren School, Romford. They won for their work creating a department and a curriculum that fosters a deep love for mathematics in students, in the classroom and through extracurricular activities. Congratulations

Above: 2024/25 Winner, Randhir Purewall, Head of Maths at The Warren School, Romford with the trophy.

Previous Winners

2024, Geography Department - St Edward's College, Liverpool

2023, Geography Department - Thomas Tallis School, London

2022, Maths Department - Leeds West Academy, Yorkshire

2021, Geography Department - Broadway Academy, Birmingham

2020, Music Department - Mounts Bay Academy, Penzance