Primary – Outstanding Assessment Resource
B Squared – Connecting Steps
B Squared’s Connecting Steps is an innovative assessment tool tailored for educational institutions, supporting all students, especially those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). Its user-friendly interface allows educators to navigate effortlessly, minimising administrative tasks and enabling them to focus on teaching. The platform facilitates efficient data management, allowing for documentation of student achievements in various multimedia formats, providing a comprehensive view of development.
Connecting Steps is customisable, aligning with both national and global curricula, making it suitable for diverse educational settings. It promotes parental engagement through clear progress reports, encouraging collaboration in goal-setting. Inclusivity is central to its design, with accessibility features for learners with various needs.
The software ensures GDPR compliance, with robust data protection policies and secure logins, while implementing online safety measures to protect sensitive information. With extensive real-world evidence supporting its effectiveness, Connecting Steps is backed by comprehensive customer support, including training sessions and dedicated account managers.
Offering scalable pricing, the platform is cost-effective for schools of all sizes, improving student tracking and resource efficiency. Additionally, by transitioning to a digital platform, Connecting Steps helps reduce paper waste, contributing to environmental sustainability through energy-efficient hosting solutions.
Grammarsaurus – Spelling with Grammarsaurus
Spelling with Grammarsaurus is a primary spelling scheme for Years 2–6 that transforms spelling teaching through a morphology-led approach. Rather than relying solely on phonics and memorisation, the programme places morphology (word structure), etymology (word origins) and phonology at the heart of learning. Pupils explore morphemes (the smallest units of meaning) helping them understand how words are built and why they are spelt the way they are.
The scheme uses a structured, cumulative model where morphemes are explicitly taught, revisited and applied across contexts. This spiral approach enables children to recognise patterns, make connections between related words and confidently tackle unfamiliar vocabulary. It is particularly supportive for pupils who struggle with phonics-heavy methods, including those with SEND or dyslexia, as it reduces cognitive overload and promotes logical reasoning about spelling.
Spelling with Grammarsaurus includes fully resourced lessons, baseline and morpheme assessments, teacher guidance, CPD training and ongoing support. It aligns with writing curricula and supports whole-school consistency. Schools report improved spelling accuracy, greater pupil confidence and engagement, stronger SATs outcomes, and enhanced teacher subject knowledge.
Research-informed and expert-verified, the scheme offers an innovative, inclusive and cost-effective solution that makes spelling meaningful, memorable and manageable for all learners.
Learning by Questions – Wayfinder
Wayfinder is a curriculum-aligned teaching, learning and assessment platform designed to help teachers embed the most powerful evidence-informed practices into everyday classroom teaching. It brings together continuous formative assessment, adaptive questioning, retrieval practice, mastery progression and real-time diagnostics in one coherent system, turning educational research into practical classroom action.
Through regular, low-stakes assessment woven into daily lessons, teachers receive immediate insight into pupil understanding. Wayfinder identifies misconceptions instantly, groups pupils dynamically for targeted support, and helps teachers adapt instruction with confidence – all while significantly reducing marking and planning workload.
Inclusion and accessibility are built into the design. Adaptive pathways support all learners, from pupils with SEND and those who are disadvantaged to those ready for deeper challenge, ensuring equitable progress without the need for teachers to create additional resources.
Schools using Wayfinder report rapid improvements in attainment: many see 20%+ increases in the proportion of pupils reaching Age-Related Expectations within weeks. Independent teacher interviews show 100% report reduced workload, 92% improved wellbeing, and 98% improved pupil outcomes.
Used across trusts including Oldham Local Authority, Bishop Konstant, and Leo Academy Trust, Wayfinder demonstrates how high-quality formative assessment can power stronger teaching, faster pupil progress and more sustainable classroom practice.
NFER – NFER Assessments
NFER Assessments are trusted by thousands of primary schools across the country, supporting teachers, school leaders, and MATs to improve outcomes for hundreds of thousands of pupils every year.
NFER Assessments span Year 1 through to Year 6, covering reading, mathematics and grammar, spelling and punctuation. Developed by our team of assessment specialists and curriculum experts, our tests are standardised with data from over 119,000 assessments. The result is reliable, valid, nationally benchmarked data that schools can act on with confidence.
Our tests reduce teacher workload and provide ready-to-use materials. Auto-marking with our online assessment platform, and intuitive reporting tools mean teachers spend less time processing data and more time teaching. Question-level analysis helps identify misconceptions, inform intervention, and drive genuine pupil progress. NFER delivers the consistency, rigour, and insight that schools need to give every child the best possible start.
NFER has been the independent not-for-profit voice of evidence in education for eight decades, at the forefront of educational research and assessment in England and beyond. Our assessment resources are the gold standard in the market and continue to help improve outcomes for future generations everywhere.
Seesaw
Seesaw is a whole-school learning platform that supports curriculum delivery, formative assessment and family engagement across primary education.
Teachers use Seesaw during lessons to capture evidence of learning as it happens. Pupils can demonstrate their understanding using drawing, photographs, voice recordings, video and written responses, allowing teachers to see pupils’ thinking more clearly while giving children different ways to show what they know.
Each pupil builds a secure digital portfolio that documents their learning over time. These portfolios support moderation, pupil progress meetings and transitions between year groups while also providing families with meaningful insight into their child’s learning.
Parents and carers can securely access their child’s learning journal through the Seesaw app, giving them a window into classroom learning and encouraging conversations about progress at home.
Seesaw also supports teachers through tools that simplify activity creation, differentiation and feedback. AI-supported features help generate activities, adapt learning tasks and streamline feedback, helping reduce preparation time while maintaining high-quality teaching.
By bringing together learning documentation, assessment and communication in one platform, Seesaw helps schools and trusts make learning visible and strengthen partnerships between school and home.
stylus
stylus is an AI-powered writing assessment service for primary schools that analyses student handwriting at sentence level across over 87 curriculum-aligned criteria. Teachers print papers, students write by hand, and schools scan the work—from that point, teachers do no further marking. The AI delivers student feedback reports, class-level teacher intervention plans, and trust-wide diagnostic data at a depth no human assessment could replicate at scale.
Paper-first by design, stylus requires no 1:1 devices, no teacher training on new software, and no student interaction with AI. Any child who can write can be assessed, from foundational KS1 criteria upwards. The system meets learners where they are, not where their age says they should be.
Backed by two DfE Contracts for Innovation, endorsed by Dr Tim Mills MBE, and achieving 91.7% marking accuracy that outperforms individual human moderators, stylus is now a finalist in the e-Assessment Awards AI in Marking category and shortlisted for three BETT 2026 awards.
Winning with Numbers
Winning With Numbers (WWN) is redefining primary maths and transforming how schools build number fluency and confidence. Designed to do for maths what phonics has done for reading, WWN provides a clear, systematic and research-aligned foundation. Created by headteachers and maths specialists, at its core is a pioneering straight-line curriculum of precisely sequenced learning steps, giving a coherent structure that strengthens teaching and accelerates progress.
WWN combines curriculum design and smart technology to offer an easy to use whole-class animated teaching programme with intervention and home learning seamlessly integrated, so every child receives the right input at the right time. Intelligently structured question sets and regular number fluency checks keep teachers and leaders continually informed about progress enabling them to respond with pinpoint precision. Highly accessible and useable, WWN is suitable for diverse learners, while inbuilt professional development equips teachers to become expert teachers of number. Parents gain automatic access to WWN and are provided with video guidance, enabling confident support at home.
WWN has demonstrated strong impact through multiple trials and an international partnership with Hachette Learning. Designed for pupils, leaders, teachers and parents, WWN is driving a mission to ensure everyone is Winning With Numbers!