Good morning, Explorer! ☀️
Saturday 11 July · Here's your trail for today.
Ten minutes, every school-day morning — the whole platform starts the day in the same place. daily live habit · assembly for everyone
15 min · Phonics Den
20 min · Mastery Trail
10 min · spaced repetition
Outdoors · Wild World
5 min · Wellbeing
🐼 Panda cam is live
Bao Bao is having breakfast right now. Watch live, then log it in your nature journal.
⚡ Saturday Showdown
This week's family quiz: British Wildlife. Beat your top score of 4,120.
San Diego Zoo · Edinburgh Zoo · KahootA quick check-in helps us shape today's learning around you.
Your grown-up sees trends, never your private notes.
Moodly · Bounce Together · YouHQ · Steer🎧 Walking Pod ready: "Rivers of the UK" — 12 min, made for the school run or dog walk.
Fitbit / Apple Health sync · GCSEPod audioYour World 🗺️
Every region is part of the curriculum. Master a region and the map grows. Pip walks with you.
The waterfall only parts for those who split things fairly ⛰️
4 of 7 pools crossed. Next: fractions of amounts — then the Trail Boss guards the top.
🦖My obsession this month
Tell us what you love right now — the whole world re-skins around it. Same curriculum, your universe.
A T-rex has 60 teeth and loses ¼ of them crunching a triceratops. How many teeth left? 🦖
“The Fossil Hunters of Lyme Regis” — how Mary Anning found the first ichthyosaur at 12 years old.
Birds are living dinosaurs. Watch one for 5 minutes — what's the most dinosaur-ish thing it does?
Objectives stay identical — only the wrapping changes. Grown-ups see the same curriculum map either way.
💫My Dream Board
Where are you headed? Pick a dream and the map lights the path to it.
Every step already exists in your world — the dream just connects them. Dreams can change any time; the learning always counts.
Learn 📚
Mastery paths, bite-size video pods and smart revision — filtered to all ages. Use the age chips at the top to switch.
🐾Mastery Trail — Maths: Fractions
Move forward only when a step is truly mastered. Practise until it sticks — no gaps left behind. Khan Academy mastery learning
🎬Learning Pods
Short expert-taught videos with a quick check at the end. Download for offline trips. GCSEPod · Oak National Academy · BBC Bitesize · BrainPOP · Discovery Education
The 'sh' sound 🦈
4 min pod + say-it-with-me practice.
The water cycle 💧
6 min pod + 3-question check.
WWII evacuees 🚂
7 min pod with primary sources.
Photosynthesis 🌱
8 min pod + exam-style question.
Macbeth: key quotes 🗡️
9 min pod, quote bank included.
Quadratic graphs 📈
10 min pod + past-paper walkthrough.
🧠Smart Review
Spaced repetition brings ideas back just before you'd forget them. Seneca · GCSEPod Check & Challenge
0/12 reviewed · streak protected until 8pm
Decodable readers, level by level 🦊
Bob-Books-style stories using only the sounds already learned, plus tap-a-sound practice:
🎤Read-Aloud Ranger
Read the passage out loud — Paw Steps listens, scores your fluency and spots the sounds to practise. No parent guesswork. Amira-style speech assessment · Phonic Foxes · Bob Books
Tap the mic and read the passage aloud
📖Story Mode EYFS–KS1
Pick any topic and Pip the Fox lives it as a bedtime-style story — read along or listen. AI narration · Charlotte Mason living books
🩺Vet School Junior — the signature strand
The pathway only Paw Steps could build: animal science from first pet to first placement, EYFS all the way to GCSE. signature content · zoo partnerships · Epicardio anatomy
EYFS
KS1
KS2
KS2–3 · Merge Cube
KS3 · Skye's GPS collar
KS4
One animal, every subject: Maths — Skye climbed 340m in 6 hours, what's her pace? · Geography — plot her GPS range · English — a day written as Skye · Art — draw her from the live cam.
Why does a dog yawn when it isn't tired? Watch, decode, then test yourself on the shelter-cam footage. Ends with the Responsible Owner badge assessment.
🏕️Life Skills Lodge
The bit home ed does better than anywhere — now with a place of its own. Everything logs to the portfolio as evidence.
Berry flapjacks = fractions
Halve the recipe for two people. Weigh, divide, bake — the maths is real and you get flapjacks.
Little Rescuers, badge 1
What to do first, who to call, recovery position on a teddy. Practised, not just watched.
St John Ambulance-style partner content
Windowsill to wildlife garden
Cress this week, sunflowers this month — feeds straight into your pack's garden quest.
Spot the fake
Real-or-fake photo challenges, ad-spotting, and what to do when chat feels wrong. A platform hosting kids owes them this.
🗂️Every strand, one map
How the whole curriculum gets made — and who makes it.
Sequencing rule: one brilliant strand before twelve shallow ones. Vet School Junior ships complete first; the marketplace grows the long tail at 90% to creators.
📚The Reading Den
Real books, levelled to you, with read-along audio — and the Read-Aloud Ranger quietly levelling you up. The goal isn't finishing phonics; it's reading for the joy of it. Bob Books → real books · pack book clubs
The Forest Foxes are reading: “Varjak Paw” 🐈
Chapter 6 by Thursday. Martha's question for the club: “Would YOU have trusted Holly?” Bring your answer.
📈 Read-Aloud Ranger says: your fluency is ready for level 5 — three level-5 books just appeared on your shelf.
🧱Build Mode
Build what you're learning — this month's brief: build a rainforest with all four layers. Your build files to the portfolio as evidence. Build Legends · Purple Mash · Minecraft-style learning
The deepest kind of learning 🧠
To place the emergent layer above the canopy, you have to KNOW the layers. Pip checks your build against the brief and asks one question about a choice you made — that conversation is the assessment.
This month's gallery stars: Noah's Roman villa 🏛️ · Isla's coral reef 🪸 · Dev's circuit city ⚡
🎙️Little Cubs: talk to Pip
Too little for menus? Just tell Pip what you want — “story”, “quiz”, “animals” — or tap the big pictures.
Tap Pip and say what you'd like to do
Voice is processed on-device and never stored — and every “conversation with Pip” quietly feeds speech-development insight to the therapy view, with consent.
Voice-first EYFS · pre-reader navigation🎨Made by kids, for kids
The deepest way to learn something is to teach it. Publish your own quizzes and mini-books to the gallery — grown-up approved before they go live. Purple Mash · Build Legends · Kahoot creator
Ocean Predators 🦈
★4.7 · played 312 times
My Guide to Snails 🐌
★4.9 · read 189 times
Build your own quiz
📖Structured courses & printables
Complete KS2 English
A tutor-marked, term-by-term course with feedback on every assignment.
Wolsey Hall Oxford · Galore Park
Revision guides that match the trail
Each mastery step links to the matching pages, so screen and paper work together.
CGP Books
This week's activity pack 🖨️
Fraction pizzas, cloud-spotter sheets and a 'ch' sound board game.
Twinkl · KS2 Gems
Make something with it 🎨
Code a fraction game, publish a mini-book or design a habitat poster.
Purple Mash · Build Legends
Quiz Arena ⚡
Fast, loud, competitive — answer quickly for bonus points. Play solo, or host a family game where everyone joins from their own device. Kahoot · Seneca smart quizzing
British Wildlife 🦡
5 questions · 15 seconds each · speed earns bonus points. Your best: 4,120.
your pack
Leeds
You're 435 points ahead — every quiz you play this weekend counts for the Foxes! 🔥
🗝️Co-op Escape Room
You each hold half the clues — you can't escape alone. Talk it out!
Escape rooms build the talk — each player's screen shows different clues, so explaining IS the maths. Oracy evidence logs to the portfolio.
Co-op play · oracy · Kahoot team mode evolvedWild World 🌍
Real animals, real places, real weather. Learning that starts with wonder and ends up outdoors.
📹Live animal cams
San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance · Edinburgh Zoo · Nat Geo Kids
🪄Bring animals into your room
AR Safari 🦒
Point your camera and a life-size giraffe appears in your garden. Measure it, walk around it, photograph it for your journal.
Google AR animals · Safari Central
Merge Cube: Inside animals 🫀
Hold a beating heart in your hand and slow it down to watch each valve. Compare a hummingbird's to a whale's.
Merge Cube · Epicardio
Serengeti with a ranger 🎥
Thursday 2pm — join a live broadcast from the field and put your questions straight to the ranger.
Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants · The Expedition Project
🍃Nature journal
Short lessons, living books and time outdoors — notice something, draw it, describe it. Charlotte Mason nature study
🐌 Snail trail on the fence
Silvery loops — it rained overnight. Measured one at 42cm!
Thursday🌳 Oak leaves turning
Pressed two leaves for the portfolio. Found a gall on one.
Monday🚜Outdoor missions & animal care
Where breakfast comes from 🥛
Trace milk from field to fridge, then visit a real farm near you.
LEAF Education · NFU Education · Countryside Classroom
Pet Care Academy 🐕
Earn your Responsible Owner badge — feeding, exercise, vet visits and reading animal body language.
SPCA Education · Animal Aid Education
Adopt a species 🐝
Follow one endangered species all term. Track real data and design a campaign to help it.
San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance · Nat Geo Kids
My Pack 🐺
Home ed doesn't have to mean learning alone. Your pack is 5 families who learn together — online and in real life. ClassDojo community · Kahoot teams · Seesaw families
Build a wildlife garden 🌻
Every family builds one square metre. Log your progress and the quest map fills in.
Latest: Dev's family planted lavender 🌿 · Martha built a bug hotel 🐞
🎥Live pack lessons
Poetry circle 📜
Bring one poem about weather. All ages welcome.
Maths problem party 🧮
Small-group tricky problems, KS2–KS3 split rooms.
Forest school meet-up
Hazel Wood car park, 10am. Fire-lighting badge session.
✉️Paw Pals abroad
Akira, 10 · Hokkaido, Japan 🇯🇵
This month: rivers of the world 🌊
Your pack studies the Ouse; Akira's class studies the Ishikari. Next Friday both groups meet on a video call to compare flood defences.
Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants · The Expedition Project📵Study Squad · GCSE
No paw prints, no fox — just not being alone at the desk. Moderated focus rooms with a shared streak.
Sam, Priya and Jos are in — cameras off, lo-fi on
Each technique is taught once, then built into how the platform quizzes you — so good study habits happen by default.
Evidence-based study skills · body doublingTeacher Studio 🏫
Tuesday · Year 5 Maple · 28 pupils. Built to give you your evenings back. Google Classroom · Teams · NetSupport School · ClassDojo · Kahoot host
Screen oversight runs only during timetabled lessons and is logged — pupils and parents can see the policy.
Last night's fractions worksheets
AI pre-marked 26 of 30 against your mark scheme. It flagged 4 books showing the same misconception: "adding denominators" (Q3 & Q5).
You always see and sign off — the assistant drafts, you decide. Full audit trail kept.
Seneca insights · GCSEPod analytics📤Assign in 10 seconds
Pushes to Paw Steps and mirrors to Google Classroom / Teams automatically. Differentiates by mastery level per pupil.
🗺️Coverage & cover
One-tap cover pack 🤒
Generates a full cover day from where each class actually is: pods with built-in checks, printable backups, seating plan and the two pupils to keep an eye on.
Oak National Academy cover lessons · Twinkl📝Reports, written for you
The platform already knows the mastery data, wellbeing trend and portfolio highlights — so it drafts, you edit and sign. A class set in an evening becomes a class set in a coffee break.
Bookings + talking points 📅
Parents book their own slots; each appointment arrives with a one-page summary — what to celebrate, one thing to watch, what home can do. Auto-translated where needed.
🎓Your CPD record
Certified CPD earned by using the platform well — export it straight into your performance-management evidence.
SEND & Therapy Hub 🩺
One caseload view for SENCOs, speech & language therapists, OTs and ELSAs — sessions logged once, shared with parents, evidenced for EHCPs automatically. Beyond the Therapy Box · Rethinking Learning · Boxall Profile Online
session 8 of 12
via parent app
review week
reassess
Auto-shares a parent-friendly version + this week's home practice game to the family app. Clinical detail stays professional-only.
🎯EHCP outcomes — Leo
Every logged session, classroom observation and home-practice game stamps evidence against these outcomes — the annual review pack writes itself.
🧰Intervention library
Sound Foxes 🦊
Structured articulation programme — the child plays it as a Paw Steps game, you see the clinical data.
Weather Inside ⛅
ELSA-style regulation check-ins woven into the learner's existing wellbeing page — no separate app.
Sensory circuits 🤸
Alerting–organising–calming sequences as movement breaks; parents run them from the family app.
The Ladder 🪜
Graded exposure steps co-designed with the young person, with wellbeing pulse tracking each rung.
Session hours, supervision log and CPD — formatted for HCPC audit and RCSLT/RCOT revalidation in one export.
Leadership 🏫
Elmwood Primary · 412 pupils · whole-school signal, not noise. iSAMS Central · Steer Education · Pulse · YouHQ · Bounce Together
Y6 Rowan's SATs-season dip triggered the wellbeing playbook in week 4 — mindful minutes doubled, homework paused, recovered by week 6. The full story is one click for governors.
Every action timestamped in an immutable audit trail. Signals support professional judgement — they never replace it.
CPOMS sync · KCSIE-aligned · Steer safeguardingEvidence pack generator 📁
Personal development, behaviour & attitudes, quality of education — compiled from live data with sources cited, not assembled in a panic the night before the call.
Commissioned places — 4 pupils 🌱
School-refusers and medical-needs pupils learning on Paw Steps at home, with therapy woven in — at a fraction of a traditional AP place. LA reporting automatic.
Wellbeing dips, engagement drops and Monday patterns predict absence weeks before the register shows it. Two pupils are trending now:
Suggested: EBSNA playbook — soft-start mornings + key adult
Suggested: ELSA check-in this week, review in 10 days
Persistent-absence pupils cost schools far more than prevention — and every avoided AP referral saves ~£19,000/yr.
Standardised termly checks place your cohorts against the national sample — so mastery percentages mean something to governors.
Grey tick = national median. Y4 reading gap auto-links to a catch-up sequence and re-tests in 6 weeks.
GL/NFER-style standardisation · EEF-alignedMIS sync nightly · single sign-on for staff and pupils · data processor agreement + DPIA template included · UK data residency.
Local Authority Portal 🏛️
Surrey County Council · Children's Services. The statutory duties you currently run on spreadsheets — EHE, EOTAS, CME and the virtual school — with consent built in, not bolted on.
Families choose to share a light-touch evidence summary instead of hosting visits. Green = sharing; amber = invited; grey = known, not on platform.
this week
Monday
3 wks ago
contact due
Families in receipt of nothing owe nothing: sharing is opt-in, revocable, and shows exactly what the LA sees. Register-duty ready.
Attendance-equivalent engagement, tutor hours delivered, therapy sessions and wellbeing trend — per placement, per week, without a single phone call to a provider.
PEP targets tracked against live learning data; Pupil Premium Plus spend mapped to the interventions it bought — and whether they worked.
Trust Centre 🛡️
Everything a DPO, DSL, bursar or procurement panel asks for — answered before they ask. This page is public and versioned.
Buy via framework call-off or direct invoice/BACS. MAT and LA master agreements available.
The Elmwood pilot 📊
10 schools, 2 terms, EEF-style pre/post design with matched comparison classes: +4.2 months reading progress equivalent, +0.6 wellbeing index, −31% teacher-reported marking time. Full methodology published, warts included.
Your data walks out the door with you 🚪
Every record — portfolios, mastery data, session notes, EHCP evidence — exports in open formats (CSV, PDF, Common Cartridge) at any time, free, forever. Leaving should be easy; staying should be earned.
If we ever shut down: 12-month data escrow, funded in advance. It's in the contract.
Plans 💷
Priced so a family can afford it and a bursar can defend it. Everything below is one platform — the learner never sees the difference.
MAT and LA licensing available. Home-ed families in receipt of AP/EOTAS funding get the family tier free. No per-feature upsells — one school licence covers every module on this page.
Portfolio 🎒
Every paw print saved — photos, writing, quiz scores and journal pages build a living record of learning. Perfect for local-authority evidence, automatically. Seesaw · Sproutfolio · iSAMS profile
📸 Fraction pizzas (photo)
Made ¾ and ⅝ pizzas from card. Explained equivalence out loud.
Today · Maths · added by Mum⚡ Quiz: Habitats — 4,120 pts
Personal best. Missed one on estuaries — added to smart review.
Yesterday · Science · auto-saved✍️ Story: The Lost Cub
Three paragraphs with speech marks used correctly for the first time!
Tuesday · EnglishOne-tap evidence report 📄
Compiles the term's work by subject into a tidy PDF — ready for your LA informal enquiry or just for grandparents.
Family comments 💬
Wellbeing 💚
Happy learners learn more. Check in, breathe, move — and let the grown-ups spot patterns early. Headspace for Educators · Moodly · Bounce Together · YouHQ · Steer · Pulse
How's the weather inside you today?
Tap a face — there are no wrong answers.
Breathe with the bubble 🫧
Headspace for Educators
Active blasts 🕺
Five-minute movement breaks between lessons:
iMoves · Striver
Fourteen days of check-ins, at a glance. Dips flag gently — never alarms.
Trending up since Tuesday · one cloudy patch last weekend
YouHQ · Steer Education · Pulse · Bounce Together🌙Wind-down
The last app of the day should make bedtime easier, not harder.
“The Snail Who Raced the Rain” 🐌
Starring the snail from your nature journal — narrated slowly, over rain sounds, 7 minutes.
What was one good thing about today?
“I beat my quiz score AND saw the pandas.”
YesterdayTomorrow's trail preview appears here after your story — so tomorrow never feels like a surprise.
Rewards 🏅
Points for effort, badges for milestones — and a companion who grows as you do. ClassDojo · Kahoot streaks
Pip the Fox · Level 7
Pip levels up as you earn Paw Points. 60 more to Level 8 — Pip gets a wizard hat.
Points for character, not just answers:
🎖️Badge shelf
💝Points with purpose
Turn Paw Points into real help for real animals — Paw Steps matches every donation and sends photo updates from the sanctuary. San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance · SPCA · Animal Aid
🦔 Feed a rescued hedgehog
Prickle Haven Rescue, Devon. One week of food and care.
🐝 Plant a bee corridor
1 m² of wildflowers planted in Yorkshire for every 200 points.
🐆 Sponsor Skye the snow leopard
Follow her GPS collar data in Wild World — your points fund it.
Exam Passport 🎓
The hardest part of home-educating to GCSE isn't the learning — it's sitting the exams. This is your private-candidate command centre. Wolsey Hall Oxford · GCSEPod · iSAMS Central
AQA · Edexcel · ★4.8 from home-ed families · quiet room available
£58/subject
All boards incl. IGCSE · science practicals hosted · ★4.9
£74/subject
AQA only · limited seats · book early
£49/subject
All boards · 21 Feb 2027 · we'll pre-fill the forms
Required for IGCSE Biology · Tutors & Exams, Leeds
Extra time evidence — needs the SEND report from your profile
Sit it like the real thing ⏱️
Timed past papers, no hints, printed or on screen. AI-assisted marking with examiner-style comments, then every dropped mark becomes a smart-review card.
Everything an employer, sixth form or university will ever ask for — in one verified place.
🧭Careers Passport · Gatsby-mapped
Strong in biology, data handling and the animal-care badge track. Pathways that fit — with the actual entry requirements against current predictions:
Every encounter, expedition Q&A and work-experience day logs itself here — schools evidence Gatsby without a spreadsheet; home-ed families get the same record for college applications.
Gatsby benchmarks · Unifrog-style pathwaysParents Hub 👪
Plan the week, see real progress, book expert help — and everything you need for confident home education in the UK.
🪄Next week, planned for you
Paw Pal builds the week from mastery gaps, review cards due, mood trends and the actual weather forecast — then you drag anything you disagree with. AI curriculum planning · Google Classroom · Teams · Moodle · Canvas
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🖨️Low-screen mode
Print today as a paper pack 📄
One tap turns today's trail into a beautiful printable — activities, worksheets and tick-boxes. A QR code on each task logs it back into the portfolio when you're done.
Twinkl printables · Charlotte Mason short lessonsSet a daily on-screen target — Paw Pal automatically swaps lessons to paper, audio and outdoor versions once it's spent.
Next up was a video pod — swapped to the audio Walking Pod instead 🎧
📊Progress report
Mastery, not minutes: percentages show secured objectives per subject, mapped to the National Curriculum.
Seneca insights · GCSEPod analytics · iSAMS CentralSafe screens, calm home 🔒
See what's open during lesson time, set quiet hours, and get a weekly digest instead of daily nagging. Wellbeing dips surface here too — with suggested conversations, not judgements.
NetSupport School · Classroom for iCloud · Steer safeguarding signals
🎓Expert help when you want it
Book a specialist
Sarah M. · KS2 maths · ★4.9
Wed 10:00 or Thu 16:00
Anderson Tutoring
Tutor-marked courses
Structured distance courses with real teacher feedback, from KS2 through IGCSE.
Wolsey Hall Oxford
Beyond the toolbox
Speech, OT and sensory-friendly learning strategies, integrated into the weekly plan.
Beyond the Therapy Box · Rethinking Learning
🛍️Resource market & perks
Fractions Escape Room
90-page printable pack · ★4.8 (214 reviews)
£3.50
PayHip · Bowtie Teacher · KS2 Gems
Made something brilliant?
Sell your own units and printables to other home-ed families. You keep 90%.
PayHip seller tools
Home-ed discounts 🎟️
Verified home-educator card: zoo tickets, museums, software and curriculum discounts.
AWE Discounts
Your local pack 🐾
Forest-school meet-ups, GCSE study groups and a moderated parents' forum.
ClassDojo community · Seesaw families
🌐Every family, in their own language
Reports, session notes and teacher messages arrive in the family's home language — 132 languages, automatic, both directions. Try it:
Replies from parents translate back for the teacher too. EAL learners can toggle dual-language subtitles on every pod.
EAL & community languages · parent engagement