Early Years & Primary
Early Years Foundation Stage
Unlike phonics schemes that open with abstract symbols, every activity starts with an animal a child can see, hear and watch moving.
- Core topics: communication & language, early literacy, early number, understanding the world — mapped to the EYFS framework.
- A real animal behind every concept: counting Marvin's strawberries, describing Rosie's colours, watching a hoglet grow from fifteen minutes old.
- Nothing to lose: no timers, countdowns or failure states — a child not ready today loses nothing by stopping.
- Read-aloud on every page, including a child's own name said the way their family says it.
KS1 — English, Maths & Science
Unlike worksheet packs that treat each sheet as a standalone drill, these run as short journeys that build toward a badge and a printable certificate.
- Core topics: reading, writing, spelling & grammar; number, place value & problem solving; plants, animals & habitats.
- One activity, then stop: a check-in, one activity at the right level, then a gentle target that is met rather than exceeded.
- Visual chunking throughout — short callouts and clear layouts, so a child who loses their place has less page to lose.
- Access controls where needed: dyslexia font, enlarged text, high contrast and calm mode, adjustable mid-lesson.
KS2 — English, Maths & Science
Unlike revision materials that assume a child is already engaged, these build outward from an animal the learner has chosen.
- Core topics: full KS2 English, maths and science — including food chains, habitats, adaptations and life cycles.
- Journeys, not piles of worksheets: Wildlife Explorer, Hedgehog Explorer and the Animal Science workbook run as sequences with a reason to return.
- Real husbandry, honestly taught — what an animal costs and needs, including when a pet is not right for them.
- Printable throughout — for a folder, a fridge, or an EHCP review.
Secondary
KS3 — English, Maths & Science
Unlike textbooks that drop the animal hook once content gets harder, the anchor stays in place exactly when the abstraction increases.
- Core topics: KS3 English, maths and science, mapped to the National Curriculum.
- A concrete object for every abstract idea — cells, energy transfer and classification through animals on the cams that same day.
- No attendance tracking — a week off costs nothing; there is no streak to lose.
- Level switching without penalty — content steps down without being flagged, scored or shown to anyone.
GCSE Biology — 7 topics
Unlike revision guides that assume a student can already sit with a wall of text, each concept arrives carried on a real, named animal.
- Core topics: seven GCSE Biology topics, mapped to exam specifications.
- Species you can actually look at — adaptation through a panther chameleon whose colour signals mood and temperature; life cycles through hedgehogs filmed here from birth.
- Distraction-free layouts that strip out background clutter.
- Revision without a countdown — no timed quizzes, so revision doesn't rehearse the anxiety it's meant to relieve.
GCSE Chemistry
Unlike materials that treat chemistry as the subject with no way in, this enters through the water, heat, nutrition and substrate of a real animal room.
- Core topics: GCSE Chemistry, mapped to exam specifications.
- Chemistry with something at stake — water quality, heating, humidity and diet for animals whose welfare depends on getting them right.
- Bite-sized callouts rather than paragraphs, so working memory isn't spent holding the page together.
- Access controls on every page: read-aloud, dyslexia font, enlarged text, high contrast, calm mode.
GCSE Physics
Unlike physics resources built around unfamiliar apparatus, these use heat, light, energy and force in a setting the student already understands.
- Core topics: GCSE Physics, mapped to exam specifications.
- Everyday apparatus, real stakes — heat lamps, UVB, thermal gradients and insulation as they actually work in an animal room.
- Diagram-led explanation — ideas carried visually first, prose second.
- Print or screen — every page works either way.
GCSE English — two papers
Unlike comprehension packs built on extracts a student has no reason to care about, the source material is animals they have already met.
- Core topics: both GCSE English papers — reading, analysis and extended writing.
- A subject worth writing about — prompts drawn from real animals and real sessions, for students who can write but won't write to order.
- Structured writing support — prompts, scaffolds and read-aloud, so a blank page is never the starting point.
- No word-count shaming — a short piece finished is a piece finished.
GCSE Maths
Unlike maths schemes that reset a student's confidence with every timed test, this one removes the clock entirely.
- Core topics: GCSE Maths, mapped to exam specifications.
- Numbers attached to something real — feeding costs, enclosure dimensions, weights, growth rates and vet budgets from the animals here.
- Never timed, ever — pace is not the thing being assessed.
- Step down without a record — a student can drop a level mid-topic without it being logged.
Post-16 & Vocational
Level 2 Animal Management
Unlike distance-learning packs written from textbooks, this course is built by a working practitioner from a licensed collection of over 70 animals.
- Core topics: husbandry, welfare, health, handling, housing and nutrition across mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates.
- Taught from a real collection under an Animal Activities Licence — not stock photography and generic profiles.
- Welfare-honest throughout — the real cost of heating, feeding and veterinary care.
- Print-and-keep materials for a portfolio or a paper-based learner.
Level 3 Animal Management
Unlike Level 3 material that stays theoretical, this covers the practice, the paperwork and the legal duties that come with it.
- Core topics: advanced husbandry and welfare, species-specific requirements, health monitoring, risk assessment and legislation.
- The real operating picture — licensing, insurance, record-keeping and risk assessment as actually carried out.
- Adult-appropriate adaptation — the same accessibility controls, without the younger presentation.
- Progression from Level 2 — continues directly rather than restarting the ground.
SEND, Wellbeing & Access
Can't Face School
Written by someone who couldn't get through the school gates at fourteen — not a clinician looking back across thirty years.
- For the young person and the parent — separate paths for "if you're the one struggling" and "on a bad morning."
- Feelings and words — name it, settle, and scripts you can hand over before an appointment.
- A green/amber/red tool for what a day actually costs, and what to do on a crisis morning.
- Free, no sign-up — support like this should never be behind a paywall.
So You've Just Been Diagnosed
The questions everyone has after a diagnosis, answered plainly — for the family working out what it means and what happens next.
- The questions everyone has, in plain language, with no jargon and no homework.
- What actually changes, and what doesn't, on the day after.
- Free, no sign-up.
Animals Never Asked Me to Explain
Ciera's own story — from crying at the school gates at fourteen to a licence, a van and a business councils pay to send children to.
- Written by the person who lived it, close enough to remember what the mornings actually felt like.
- Short chapters you can open at any page and finish on a bad day — with the animals (Gary, Rosie, Marvin) woven through.
- Free to read.
Colour-Coded Maths Guides
The methods that trip up dyscalculic and dyslexic learners, broken into colour-coded steps you can follow one at a time.
- Column methods, fractions, decimals, percentages, place value and ratio — each step in its own colour.
- A visual scaffold, not another wall of numbers — print it and keep it beside the work.
- Free to read and print.
PawSteps SEND Library
Original, plain-English guides and printables — not text lifted from a publisher's material.
- Guides: autism and ADHD for young people and for practitioners, plus meltdown/shutdown, sensory, PDA, EBSA, co-occurring conditions and waiting for assessment.
- Printables: pupil passport, sensory profile, a reasonable-adjustments menu, an instruction guide for TAs, and a plain-English glossary.
- Free to read, print and share.
SEN Zone & Printable Library
Unlike SEND provision retro-fitted onto a mainstream product, the access features here were built in from the start.
- Included: 20 SEN activities, visual cards and schedules, social stories, and the visual schedule maker.
- Physical access: switch and eye-gaze operation, and full touch use including tap-to-place instead of dragging.
- Communication access: symbols and AAC, read-aloud everywhere, dyslexia-friendly font and calm mode.
- Flip or print — everything works on screen or on paper.
Wellbeing Journey
Unlike mood apps that punish a missed day, this one has no streak to break and nothing that resets.
- Included: a daily check-in, a mood and behaviour tracker, calm activities, breathing and guided meditations.
- Something to do today — a bridge for families waiting months for mental-health support, not a replacement for it.
- A pet that never gets ill — care is rewarded and absence is never punished.
- Private by default — the wellbeing journal saves on the device rather than being sent anywhere.
Games & Apps
The Arcade — ten games
Unlike educational games that gate progress behind speed, these have no fail state to hit.
- Included: ten PawSteps animal games — food webs, camouflage, habitats, hedgehog rescue, life cycles, a garden birdwatch and more — free forever, alongside the wider arcade.
- Learning through play — concepts practised rather than tested, with no score to lose.
- No loot boxes, no real money — coins are earned by learning and spent on the learner's animal.
- Free, no sign-up — playable without an account or a card.
Schoolhouse & The Animal Room
Unlike bolt-on companion apps, these are full environments where the learning already covered is put to use.
- Included: two subscription apps built around the same animals and the same curriculum.
- Practice, not repetition — applying what a lesson taught, in a setting rather than on another worksheet.
- The same access controls — read-aloud, dyslexia font, enlarged text, high contrast, calm mode.
- Included in the subscription — no separate purchase, no per-feature upsell.
Free Forever
Vet-Informed Care Guides
Unlike care sheets written to sell a pet, these lead with what the animal actually needs.
- Included: 367 care guides, plus articles, live animal cams, the careers hub and the pet-matcher quiz.
- Welfare-honest — common myths called out directly, and mis-selling named as mis-selling.
- Dated and reviewed — every guide carries a review line, informed by current veterinary guidance.
- Never behind a paywall — an animal's welfare should not depend on a subscription.
Browse the lessons in the full curriculum catalogue or by age on the Key Stages page. Two sample lessons are open to try free; everything else is included in a subscription with a free trial.