Arithmagicians
Arithmagicians is an innovative maths learning platform devised by teacher Ebrahim Tafti to offering targeted practice to help students can sharpen their mental maths skills and reduce reliance on written strategies for problem-solving.
Boromi
Evie Keough, founder of Boromi, leads a network of in-school play libraries that empower parents to nurture early childhood development through purposeful play at home. This project aims to diversify Boromi’s model by building community partnerships alongside schools and expand to 400 schools – 50% in high-priority Northern regions – by 2028.
Chatta
Chatta is a teaching approach that enhances pupils’ spoken language and vocabulary by linking stories and learning experiences with images and modeled language. Using Chatta software, teachers create audio-visual storyboards to stimulate pupil talk. This project introduces Chatta to early years (foundation stages 1 and 2) across 50 schools, providing training, software, and resources to teachers and teaching assistants in hubs of 10-20 schools.
Diagnostic Maths Assessment
Maths teacher Joanne de Groot, from Our Lady of Pity RC Primary, Greasby, has developed a fresh new way to test maths ability in the classroom, aiming to help primary school teachers pinpoint exactly where children need support. Her Diagnostic Maths Assessment tool measures primary school children’s strengths and weaknesses across ten key curriculum areas.
Dynamic Representations
Maths teachers Jayne Webster and Caroline Peters are developing a digital platform, Dynamic Representations, which aims to bring maths to life for secondary school pupils, reducing anxiety and making concepts easier to understand. The platform features interactive digital versions of familiar classroom tools – such as plastic blocks and rods, known as manipulatives – to help students visualise and understand maths concepts and show the deep connections between number and algebra.
Fast Feedback
A pioneering new online resource seeks to speed up the marking and feedback process for teachers and students using AI-driven technology. Tom Rye, a London-based secondary school Vice Principal is the creator of Fast Feedback – an AI-powered platform that automates assessment, reducing teacher workload and bringing feedback to students more quickly. The platform will be open source, making it an affordable solution for schools.
ProVision
Jordan Scott, from Benton Dene Primary School, in Newcastle, is developing ProVision, an online intervention and pupil data management system. He hopes his AI-powered system will revolutionise targeted support for disadvantaged students and reduce the workload of teachers and teaching assistants. ProVision uses AI to streamline the planning, implementation, and monitoring of interventions, ensuring they are tailored to individual student needs. The user-friendly system allows staff to select children for specific interventions and give information about any gaps in learning and how often the support is needed. The AI then generates bespoke intervention programmes for individual children or groups of children.
Reading on Your Head
A website by Doncaster teacher Richard Cowie and developer John Applin, offering online reading comprehension resources. It engages pupils with subjects they enjoy, gamifies learning through reading games and rewards, and lets them create and share quizzes. Richard aims to expand to 100 schools over three years.
Revise Chemistry with Mr B
Jon Blackbourn, a Manchester chemistry teacher, is creating Revise Chemistry with Mr B, using YouTube and TikTok to help disadvantaged students with GCSE science. The videos feature classroom experiments and simple explanations to enhance learning, offering an accessible alternative to private tuition.
Vocabulous
Classics teacher Lucy Huelin is developing an engaging online resource, which trains students to work out unfamiliar vocabulary using their pre-existing knowledge of word parts such as prefixes and roots. The website is predominantly used by 9- to 14-year-olds to learn 26 word roots and more than 1,000 English words.