DfE digital standards aligned · GDPR & DPA 2018 · Cyber Essentials Plus · WCAG 2.2 AA · KCSIE-aligned safeguarding

🐾 240 Paw Points 🚶 4,230 steps 🔥 12 day streak

Make it yours 🛠️

Reading and sensory settings — saved to this learner's profile. SEND layer · Beyond the Therapy Box · Rethinking Learning

Easy-read textWider letters and lines for dyslexic readers
Bigger textEverything ~15% larger
Calm modeStops all movement and animation
Colour overlayTint the whole screen — many readers find this easier
Read this page to meHear the current page aloud
Sensory breaksAuto-adds a quiet break every 25 minutes

Good morning, Explorer! ☀️

Saturday 11 July · Here's your trail for today.

THE MORNING DEN · LIVE 8:45 Today: snow-leopard cubs born overnight! 🐆 + this week's puzzle · 3 birthdays · Ranger Priya live from the hide

Ten minutes, every school-day morning — the whole platform starts the day in the same place. daily live habit · assembly for everyone

Paw Points
240
▲ 35 vs last week
Lessons this week
9
▲ 2 vs last week
Maths mastery
68%
▲ 4 pts
Smart review due
12
cards ready
Today's Trail
Phonics: the 'ch' sound
15 min · Phonics Den
Maths mastery: fractions, step 3
20 min · Mastery Trail
Smart review: 12 cards due
10 min · spaced repetition
Nature journal: cloud spotting
Outdoors · Wild World
Movement break: safari stretch
5 min · Wellbeing
Trail progress0%
Google Classroom · ClassDojo · Seneca
Jump back in

🐼 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 · Kahoot
How are you feeling?

A 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
Real Paw Steps 🚶
🐾

4,230 steps today

Goal: 6,000. Every 100 steps = 1 Paw Point.

🎧 Walking Pod ready: "Rivers of the UK" — 12 min, made for the school run or dog walk.

Fitbit / Apple Health sync · GCSEPod audio

Your World 🗺️

Every region is part of the curriculum. Master a region and the map grows. Pip walks with you.

🔢
Counting Creek
★ mastered
⛰️
Fraction Falls
68% explored
🌳
Grammar Grove
81% explored
🏰
Tudor Trail
✨ just unlocked!
🔒
Circuit Caves
finish Fraction Falls
🔒
Photosynthesis Forest
KS3 lands
🦊
Fraction Falls · Maths · KS2

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.

Khan Academy mastery · Duolingo path · world-building

🦖My obsession this month

Tell us what you love right now — the whole world re-skins around it. Same curriculum, your universe.

Maths, re-skinned

A T-rex has 60 teeth and loses ¼ of them crunching a triceratops. How many teeth left? 🦖

Today's reading

“The Fossil Hunters of Lyme Regis” — how Mary Anning found the first ichthyosaur at 12 years old.

Journal prompt

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.

🐾Animal-care badge
Biology regions
🎓GCSE Bio grade 6
💫Zoo work experience, 15

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

🐾What is a fraction?
🐾Halves & quarters
🐾Equivalent fractions
Fractions of amounts
🔒Adding fractions
🔒Mixed numbers
🔒Trail Boss quiz

🎬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

EYFS · Phonics

The 'sh' sound 🦈

4 min pod + say-it-with-me practice.

KS2 · Science

The water cycle 💧

6 min pod + 3-question check.

KS2 · History

WWII evacuees 🚂

7 min pod with primary sources.

KS3 · Biology

Photosynthesis 🌱

8 min pod + exam-style question.

GCSE · English

Macbeth: key quotes 🗡️

9 min pod, quote bank included.

GCSE · Maths

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

12 cards due today
Tap to start your review →

0/12 reviewed · streak protected until 8pm

Phonics Den · EYFS–KS1

Decodable readers, level by level 🦊

Bob-Books-style stories using only the sounds already learned, plus tap-a-sound practice:

Phonic Foxes · Bob Books · Explode the Code

🎤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

Level 4 decodable · uses only sounds you've learned
The fox sat on the ship. "I wish I had a fish and chips," said the fox. The moth on the mast said, "Hush! The fish shop is shut."

Tap the mic and read the passage aloud

Your reading report
Fluency
91%
▲ 6 vs last read
Words per minute
62
▲ 4

Sounds to practise — tap one to add it to your Phonics Den:

sh — "ship" 🔁 th — "moth" 🔁

Recording analysed on-device, then deleted. Parents see the trend, never the audio.

📖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

💧
Page 1 of 4

🩺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

🐾My First Pet
EYFS
🐾Animal Families
KS1
Body Language & Behaviour
KS2
🫀Inside Animals
KS2–3 · Merge Cube
📊Conservation Data Lab
KS3 · Skye's GPS collar
🎓GCSE Bio + placement
KS4
Animal of the Week 🐆 Snow Leopard

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.

This step · Body Language & Behaviour

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.

Paw Steps Kitchen 🍳

Berry flapjacks = fractions

Halve the recipe for two people. Weigh, divide, bake — the maths is real and you get flapjacks.

First aid 🩹

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
Grow something 🌱

Windowsill to wildlife garden

Cress this week, sunflowers this month — feeds straight into your pack's garden quest.

Stay sharp online 🧠

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.

Paw Points Bank 🏦 — money, with the currency you already care about
Saved in the bank
120 🐾
+6 🐾 interest due Sunday (5%)
Save points and they grow — 5% every Sunday. Spend them and they don't. That tension is the whole lesson: interest, saving up for the big badge, or donating for hedgehogs. Your call.

🗂️Every strand, one map

How the whole curriculum gets made — and who makes it.

🔢 Maths · 📖 English · 🔬 Sciencecore — Oak National (OGL) + our checks
🩺 Animal science · 🎙️ Phonics · 📺 Morning Densignature — made by Paw Steps
🌍 Geography (the World Map IS the subject) · 🏰 Historycore + signature packs
💻 Computing → publish real games · 🎵 Music practice trackersignature · builds on Build Mode
🇫🇷 French · 🇪🇸 Spanish · 🤟 BSLsmart-review engine · BSL = marketplace therapist-made
🎨 Art & DT · 🕌 RE & big questions · 🧭 PSHEpartner + marketplace · PSHE parent-controlled
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Curriculum for Wales · 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Curriculum for Excellencephase 3 — doubles the UK base

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

Your shelf · level 4 → 5
🦊The Midnight Foxchapter book · 62% read · read-along audio ✓
🌊The Snail and the Whalefinished! · you read it aloud to Dev 💛
🏰The Queen's Tokennew · unlocked by Tudor Trail 🏰
Reading-for-pleasure streak9 days 🔥
Pack book club · Thursday 4pm

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

Pick a tile, tap the grid
Why building counts

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

📖Structured courses & printables

Full course

Complete KS2 English

A tutor-marked, term-by-term course with feedback on every assignment.


Wolsey Hall Oxford · Galore Park
Workbooks

Revision guides that match the trail

Each mastery step links to the matching pages, so screen and paper work together.


CGP Books
Printables

This week's activity pack 🖨️

Fraction pizzas, cloud-spotter sheets and a 'ch' sound board game.


Twinkl · KS2 Gems
Create

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

This week's showdown

British Wildlife 🦡

5 questions · 15 seconds each · speed earns bonus points. Your best: 4,120.

Pack battle · ends Sunday 8pm
🦊 Forest Foxes
your pack
18,340
VS
🦉 Night Owls
Leeds
17,905

You're 435 points ahead — every quiz you play this weekend counts for the Foxes! 🔥

Question 1 of 5Score: 0
Final score
0

Weekly leaderboard

    🗝️Co-op Escape Room

    Escape the Fossil Vault · you + Martha · maths, KS2

    You each hold half the clues — you can't escape alone. Talk it out!

    The vault door has a 3-digit code. Ready to start?

    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 evolved

    Wild 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

    LIVE🐼 Panda Cam · San Diego
    LIVE🐧 Penguin Cam · Edinburgh
    LIVE🦁 Savanna Cam · San Diego
    LIVE🦇 Night Zone · infrared

    🪄Bring animals into your room

    Augmented reality

    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
    Hold a heart

    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
    Live expedition

    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

    New entry (+10 🐾)
    Recent entries

    🐌 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

    Farm & food

    Where breakfast comes from 🥛

    Trace milk from field to fridge, then visit a real farm near you.


    LEAF Education · NFU Education · Countryside Classroom
    Kindness to animals

    Pet Care Academy 🐕

    Earn your Responsible Owner badge — feeding, exercise, vet visits and reading animal body language.


    SPCA Education · Animal Aid Education
    Conservation

    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

    The Forest Foxes 🦊 · Yorkshire
    🦊You (Explorer, KS2)🔥 12-day streak
    🐰Martha (KS2)online now
    🦔Dev (KS1)🏅 new badge today
    🦡Poppy (KS3)at forest school
    🐿️Sam (GCSE)revising biology
    Shared quest · 3 weeks left

    Build a wildlife garden 🌻

    Every family builds one square metre. Log your progress and the quest map fills in.

    Quest progress64%

    Latest: Dev's family planted lavender 🌿 · Martha built a bug hotel 🐞

    🎥Live pack lessons

    Mon 10am · hosted by Poppy's mum

    Poetry circle 📜

    Bring one poem about weather. All ages welcome.

    Wed 2pm · hosted by tutor Sarah M.

    Maths problem party 🧮

    Small-group tricky problems, KS2–KS3 split rooms.

    Fri · in real life 🌳

    Forest school meet-up

    Hazel Wood car park, 10am. Fire-lighting badge session.

    ✉️Paw Pals abroad

    Your pen pal · moderated exchange

    Akira, 10 · Hokkaido, Japan 🇯🇵

    "This week we saw red-crowned cranes dancing in the snow! Do you have cranes in England? I am learning fractions too. They are hard!!"
    — received Tuesday · translated automatically
    Global classroom

    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.

    Focus room · biology revision
    🐿️🦉🦔🦊

    Sam, Priya and Jos are in — cameras off, lo-fi on

    25:00
    Squad streak18 sessions
    Revise like it's a skill (because it is)
    🧠 Retrieval beats re-reading3-min explainer
    📆 Spacing: the forgetting curveyou already use it
    🏛️ Memory palace: quotes editionMacbeth pack
    ✍️ Blurting, properlyworked example

    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 doubling

    Teacher Studio 🏫

    Tuesday · Year 5 Maple · 28 pupils. Built to give you your evenings back. Google Classroom · Teams · NetSupport School · ClassDojo · Kahoot host

    Books pre-marked overnight
    26/30
    ▲ 4hrs saved
    Pupils needing you today
    4
    same misconception
    Curriculum covered
    71%
    ▲ on track for July
    Class wellbeing
    7.9
    ▲ 0.3 this week
    Live class view · lesson 2 — fractions
    Amara
    Mastery step 4 ✏️
    92% correct
    Billy
    Mastery step 3 ✏️
    78% correct
    Chloe
    Stuck 4 min ⚠️
    Dev
    Extension task 🌟
    Trail Boss quiz
    Eli
    Off-task tab ⚠️
    +23 more
    All on task ✅
    avg 84%

    Screen oversight runs only during timetabled lessons and is logged — pupils and parents can see the policy.

    Marking assistant

    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.

    Live assignments
    📚 Water cycle pod + checkY5 Maple · 24/28 done
    🧠 Smart review (differentiated)Y5 Oak · due Fri

    🗺️Coverage & cover

    National Curriculum coverage — Year 5 Maths
    Number & place value88%
    Fractions, decimals & %64%
    Geometry42% ⚠️ gap
    Off sick? Sorted.

    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.

    Pick a pupil and the draft appears here — built from real evidence, cited line by line, never generic praise.
    Parents' evening, sorted

    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.

    Slots booked for Thursday24/28

    🎓Your CPD record

    Certified CPD earned by using the platform well — export it straight into your performance-management evidence.

    🏅 Adaptive teaching with mastery data · 6 hrs 🏅 AI-assisted feedback that stays yours · 4 hrs 🏅 Wellbeing-informed planning · 3 hrs ⏳ SEND: precision teaching (in progress) · 2/5 hrs
    CPD hours this year13 / 18 target
    CPD certified · counts for ECT & performance management

    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

    Active caseload
    14
    3 schools + 2 home-ed
    Sessions this week
    11
    ▲ all notes logged
    EHCP reviews due
    2
    evidence auto-compiled
    Home practice done
    78%
    ▲ 12 pts since parent app
    Today's caseload
    🦁Leo, 6 · speech sounds /k/ /g/Elmwood Primary · velar fronting programme, week 4Today 9:30
    session 8 of 12
    🦋Maya, 9 · sensory regulationHome-ed · sensory circuits + Zones check-insToday 11:00
    via parent app
    🐢Theo, 13 · EBSNA reintegrationAP placement · anxiety ladder step 5 of 9Thu 14:00
    review week
    🐦Grace, 10 · working memoryElmwood Primary · precision teaching, doubling retentionFri 10:15
    reassess
    Log a session (once — it goes everywhere)

    Auto-shares a parent-friendly version + this week's home practice game to the family app. Clinical detail stays professional-only.

    🎯EHCP outcomes — Leo

    Produce /k/ and /g/ in phrases (target: 80% by July)65%
    Follow 2-step instructions without visual prompt72%
    Initiate play with a peer daily80% ✅ met early

    Every logged session, classroom observation and home-practice game stamps evidence against these outcomes — the annual review pack writes itself.

    🧰Intervention library

    Speech & language

    Sound Foxes 🦊

    Structured articulation programme — the child plays it as a Paw Steps game, you see the clinical data.

    Emotional literacy

    Weather Inside ⛅

    ELSA-style regulation check-ins woven into the learner's existing wellbeing page — no separate app.

    Occupational therapy

    Sensory circuits 🤸

    Alerting–organising–calming sequences as movement breaks; parents run them from the family app.

    Anxiety & EBSNA

    The Ladder 🪜

    Graded exposure steps co-designed with the young person, with wellbeing pulse tracking each rung.

    Your professional record

    Session hours, supervision log and CPD — formatted for HCPC audit and RCSLT/RCOT revalidation in one export.

    🩺 Clinical hours logged · 214 this year 👥 Supervision · 6 sessions evidenced 🏅 CPD · 22 hrs certified

    Leadership 🏫

    Elmwood Primary · 412 pupils · whole-school signal, not noise. iSAMS Central · Steer Education · Pulse · YouHQ · Bounce Together

    Attendance this term
    94.6%
    ▲ 1.2 vs national
    Wellbeing index
    7.8
    ▲ 0.4 this half-term
    Mastery objectives secured
    76%
    ▲ 5 pts YoY
    Active SEND interventions
    37
    all evidenced
    Wellbeing heatmap · check-in average by class, last 6 weeks
    W1W2W3W4W5W6 Y3 Willow Y4 Birch Y5 Maple Y6 Rowan
    low datahealthythriving⚠ dip — auto-flagged with suggested actions

    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.

    Safeguarding signals · DSL view
    Pattern alert — pupil's check-ins declined 3 weeks + attendance dipAuto-drafted chronology ready for CPOMS · needs DSL review today
    Language flag — concerning phrase in a moderated pack chatMessage quarantined · context attached · logged 08:12
    Resolved — last week's Y4 friendship-group concernELSA sessions complete · monitoring for 2 more weeks✓ closed

    Every action timestamped in an immutable audit trail. Signals support professional judgement — they never replace it.

    CPOMS sync · KCSIE-aligned · Steer safeguarding
    Inspection-ready, always

    Evidence 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.

    Alternative provision & EOTAS

    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.

    Theo · reintegration ladderstep 5/9
    Cost vs average AP placement£5,550 vs £19,000/yr
    Attendance early-warning · the smoke alarm

    Wellbeing dips, engagement drops and Monday patterns predict absence weeks before the register shows it. Two pupils are trending now:

    Pupil A (Y6) high riskCheck-ins ↓ 3 wks · Sunday-night activity spikes · 2 Monday absences
    Suggested: EBSNA playbook — soft-start mornings + key adult
    Pupil B (Y4) watchEngagement ↓ since friendship-group change · attendance still 96%
    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.

    National benchmarking · autumn baseline

    Standardised termly checks place your cohorts against the national sample — so mastery percentages mean something to governors.

    Reading · Y562nd centile
    Maths · Y557th centile
    Reading · Y444th — gap

    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-aligned
    Plays nicely with what you already run
    iSAMSArborSIMSBromcomWonde SSOCPOMSGoogle WorkspaceMicrosoft 365Moodle / Canvas LMSParentPay

    MIS 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.

    EHE children known
    342
    ▲ 96% register-ready
    Commissioned placements
    28
    EOTAS · AP · medical
    Avg cost per placement
    £5,550
    ▲ £13.4k under AP average
    Monitoring returns filed
    100%
    ▲ automatic, zero chasing
    EHE engagement register · consent-based

    Families choose to share a light-touch evidence summary instead of hosting visits. Green = sharing; amber = invited; grey = known, not on platform.

    🟢Family R. · 2 children, KS2Sharing termly summary · portfolio evidence rich · no actionlast shared
    this week
    🟢Family O. · 1 child, GCSESharing + Exam Passport visible · entries confirmed for summerlast shared
    Monday
    🟡Family T. · 3 children, mixedInvited via home-ed group · free family tier offeredinvited
    3 wks ago
    Family H. · 1 child, KS3Known to EHE team · not on platform · standard process appliesannual
    contact due

    Families in receipt of nothing owe nothing: sharing is opt-in, revocable, and shows exactly what the LA sees. Register-duty ready.

    Commissioned placements · live outcomes
    Theo, 13 · EBSNA · reintegration ladderstep 5/9
    Ava, 15 · medical · GCSE track (3 subjects)on track
    Kai, 12 · permanent exclusion · engagementrebuilding · wk 3

    Attendance-equivalent engagement, tutor hours delivered, therapy sessions and wellbeing trend — per placement, per week, without a single phone call to a provider.

    Children missing education · signals
    CME cross-check — 2 platform families moved into the areaSchool-roll check suggests not yet known to your EHE team · details shared with consent
    Resolved — placement breakdown risk (Kai) flagged in week 1Extra tutor hours + mentor added before disengagement · now trending up✓ closed
    Virtual school · looked-after children

    PEP targets tracked against live learning data; Pupil Premium Plus spend mapped to the interventions it bought — and whether they worked.

    PEP targets on track (12 children)9 of 12
    Virtual school · PP+ accountability

    Trust Centre 🛡️

    Everything a DPO, DSL, bursar or procurement panel asks for — answered before they ask. This page is public and versioned.

    Uptime, last 12 months
    99.97%
    status page public
    Pilot effect size · reading
    +4.2
    months progress, 2 terms
    Support first response
    42 min
    ▲ UK-based team
    Moderation SLA
    <15 min
    human, 7 days/week
    Documents your DPO actually needs
    📄 Data Processing AgreementPre-signed, ICO-standard clauses, UK GDPR & DPA 2018
    📄 DPIA template — 80% pre-completedYour DPO fills in local context only
    📄 Privacy notices — pupil, parent & staff versionsPlain-English + easy-read + translated
    📄 Safeguarding & moderation policyNamed safeguarding lead · KCSIE-mapped · pen-pal & chat controls
    📄 Penetration test summaryAnnual, independent, CREST-accredited tester
    Procurement status
    🛒 G-Cloud 14✓ listed
    🛒 Everything ICT framework✓ approved supplier
    🔐 Cyber Essentials Plus✓ certified 2026
    ♿ WCAG 2.2 AA✓ audited
    🇬🇧 UK data residency✓ all environments
    📚 DfE digital & technology standards✓ self-assessed

    Buy via framework call-off or direct invoice/BACS. MAT and LA master agreements available.

    Evidence, not adjectives

    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.

    The no-lock-in promise

    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.

    Family
    £9.99/month · up to 4 children
    Everything in the learner app, EYFS–GCSE
    Auto-planned weeks + Exam Passport
    Portfolio & LA evidence reports
    Free tier: 3 activities/day, forever
    School
    £5.50/pupil/year
    Teacher Studio, marking assistant, cover packs
    Wellbeing, safeguarding signals & heatmaps
    MIS sync, Wonde SSO, CPOMS, inspection packs
    Unlimited staff · CPD included · UK support
    Your school: 412 pupils
    = £2,266/year£5.50/pupil
    ≈ the cost of 1.4 supply-teacher days per month, whole school
    AP & EOTAS
    £1,850/pupil/term
    Full curriculum + 3 hrs/wk live 1-to-1 tutoring
    Weekly therapy session + reintegration ladder
    Automatic LA monitoring & attendance returns
    vs £19,000+/yr typical AP placement
    Therapist & Tutor
    £29/professional/month
    Unlimited caseload, session logs, EHCP evidence
    Parent app sharing & home-practice games
    Sell your programmes in the marketplace — keep 90%
    Free for NHS trusts' first year
    🇬🇧 UK data residency🔒 GDPR & DPA 2018 · DPIA template🛡️ Cyber Essentials Plus♿ WCAG 2.2 AA📋 KCSIE-aligned safeguarding🎓 Evidence-informed: EEF-aligned interventions💷 Pay via BACS/invoice — bursar-friendly

    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

    Learning timeline

    📸 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 · English
    Evidence & sharing

    One-tap evidence report 📄

    Compiles the term's work by subject into a tidy PDF — ready for your LA informal enquiry or just for grandparents.

    Curriculum coverage this term74%

    Family comments 💬

    "The Lost Cub made me laugh out loud — brilliant ending!" — Grandad

    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

    Daily check-in (+2 🐾)

    How's the weather inside you today?

    Tap a face — there are no wrong answers.

    Breathing bubble

    Breathe with the bubble 🫧

    breathe…

    Headspace for Educators
    Move!

    Active blasts 🕺

    Five-minute movement breaks between lessons:


    iMoves · Striver
    For grown-ups: wellbeing pulse

    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.

    Tonight's story · made from your day

    “The Snail Who Raced the Rain” 🐌

    Starring the snail from your nature journal — narrated slowly, over rain sounds, 7 minutes.

    One good thing (+2 🐾)

    What was one good thing about today?

    “I beat my quiz score AND saw the pandas.”

    Yesterday

    Tomorrow'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

    Your companion
    🦊

    Pip the Fox · Level 7

    Pip levels up as you earn Paw Points. 60 more to Level 8 — Pip gets a wizard hat.

    Family values (grown-ups award these)

    Points for character, not just answers:

    💛 Kindness 8 🔍 Curiosity 12 🧗 Perseverance 6 🤝 Helping out 9

    🎖️Badge shelf

    🔥
    10-day streak
    📚
    50 pods watched
    🐌
    Nature spotter
    Quiz champion
    🫀
    Anatomy explorer
    🏆
    Trail Boss ×5
    🌍
    Expedition crew
    🐕
    Responsible owner

    💝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.

    Pack total this month3,150 / 5,000 🐾
    You've helped feed Horace 3 times 🥣

    🐝 Plant a bee corridor

    1 m² of wildflowers planted in Yorkshire for every 200 points.

    Pack total this month1,800 / 4,000 🐾
    Your pack has planted 9 m² so far 🌼

    🐆 Sponsor Skye the snow leopard

    Follow her GPS collar data in Wild World — your points fund it.

    Pack total this month2,400 / 6,000 🐾
    Skye climbed 340m yesterday — you saw it first 🏔️

    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

    Subjects planned
    5
    3 GCSE · 2 IGCSE
    Next deadline
    83 days
    entries close 21 Feb
    Estimated entry cost
    £312
    all 5 subjects
    Predicted grades
    6-6-5-5-4
    ▲ trending up
    Exam centres near YO1 — private candidates welcome
    York College Exams Centre
    AQA · Edexcel · ★4.8 from home-ed families · quiet room available
    3.2 mi
    £58/subject
    Tutors & Exams, Leeds
    All boards incl. IGCSE · science practicals hosted · ★4.9
    22 mi
    £74/subject
    Harrogate Grammar (external)
    AQA only · limited seats · book early
    19 mi
    £49/subject
    Deadline radar — we chase these so you don't
    83days
    GCSE summer entries close
    All boards · 21 Feb 2027 · we'll pre-fill the forms
    54days
    Book science practical day
    Required for IGCSE Biology · Tutors & Exams, Leeds
    12days
    Access arrangements application
    Extra time evidence — needs the SEND report from your profile
    Mock exam mode

    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.

    Maths paper 1 (Nov mock)58/80 · grade 6
    GCSEPod · Seneca exam mode · CGP practice papers
    Certificates & records vault

    Everything an employer, sixth form or university will ever ask for — in one verified place.

    📜 Functional Skills English L1 · Pass · June 2026
    🏅 Bikeability Level 2 · May 2026
    🎹 ABRSM Piano Grade 2 · Merit · March 2026

    🧭Careers Passport · Gatsby-mapped

    Where the mastery data points

    Strong in biology, data handling and the animal-care badge track. Pathways that fit — with the actual entry requirements against current predictions:

    🐾 Veterinary nursing (T Level / RVC)needs 5×grade 5 · on track
    🌿 Ecology & conservation (A levels)needs Bio grade 6 · predicted 6
    🧪 Lab technician apprenticeshipneeds maths 4 · secured
    Gatsby benchmarks · evidence so far
    1 · Stable careers programme✓ evidenced
    2 · Labour market information✓ 4 sources
    4 · Curriculum linked to careers✓ auto-tagged
    5 · Encounters with employers3 of 4 logged
    6 · Workplace experience⏳ zoo placement, Aug

    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 pathways

    Parents 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

    Forecast: Mon ☔ · Tue ☀️ 22° · Wed ⛅ · Thu ☀️ · Fri ☔
    Mon ☔Tue ☀️Wed ⛅Thu ☀️Fri ☔

    🖨️Low-screen mode

    The anti-screen-time switch

    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 lessons
    Screen budget

    Set a daily on-screen target — Paw Pal automatically swaps lessons to paper, audio and outdoor versions once it's spent.

    Today's screen learning38 / 60 min

    Next up was a video pod — swapped to the audio Walking Pod instead 🎧

    📊Progress report

    Maths68%
    English81%
    Science59%
    Wellbeing engagement92%

    Mastery, not minutes: percentages show secured objectives per subject, mapped to the National Curriculum.

    Seneca insights · GCSEPod analytics · iSAMS Central
    Gentle oversight

    Safe 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

    1-to-1 tutoring

    Book a specialist

    Sarah M. · KS2 maths · ★4.9
    Wed 10:00 or Thu 16:00


    Anderson Tutoring
    Full oversight

    Tutor-marked courses

    Structured distance courses with real teacher feedback, from KS2 through IGCSE.


    Wolsey Hall Oxford
    SEND & therapy

    Beyond the toolbox

    Speech, OT and sensory-friendly learning strategies, integrated into the weekly plan.


    Beyond the Therapy Box · Rethinking Learning

    🛍️Resource market & perks

    Buy

    Fractions Escape Room

    90-page printable pack · ★4.8 (214 reviews)

    £3.50


    PayHip · Bowtie Teacher · KS2 Gems
    Sell

    Made something brilliant?

    Sell your own units and printables to other home-ed families. You keep 90%.


    PayHip seller tools
    Perks

    Home-ed discounts 🎟️

    Verified home-educator card: zoo tickets, museums, software and curriculum discounts.


    AWE Discounts
    Community

    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:

    Amara had a brilliant week — she mastered fractions of amounts and read aloud with real confidence. One thing to practise at home: the 'th' sound, five minutes a day.

    Replies from parents translate back for the teacher too. EAL learners can toggle dual-language subtitles on every pod.

    EAL & community languages · parent engagement
    Paw Pal — your AI study buddyExplains, quizzes and summarises anything you're learning
    Hiya! I'm Paw Pal 🦊 Ask me to explain something, quiz you, or summarise your notes.
    🐾 +5 Paw Points!

    🐾 Paw Steps — Saturday's Paper Pack

    Explorer · KS2 · No screens needed today. Scan a QR when you finish a task to log it.

    scan to logPhonics: the 'ch' sound — circle every 'ch' word in the story sheet, then write three of your own. (15 min)
    scan to logMaths: fractions of amounts — worksheet 4B attached. Use the counters if it helps. (20 min)
    scan to logNature journal: cloud spotting — lie on the grass for 10 minutes. Draw the three cloud shapes you see and name them with the chart.
    scan to logRead aloud — read "The Fox and the Ship" to a grown-up. They tick the sounds sheet as you go.
    scan to logMovement — safari stretch card deck: pick five animals and hold each pose for 20 seconds.