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Admicity
Admicity is a workflow and data management platform developed from direct experience of working in a school office.
Most schools manage their entire admissions and onboarding process with manual data entry and no automation. This creates duplication, increases the risk of errors and takes significant time.
Admicity creates the student record in the MIS automatically at the point of application. Registration information is then requested and collected automatically and continuously synced into that record. Parents retain their Admicity account after their child joins the school, so information stays up to date without staff having to chase it.
As well as streamlining the admissions process, Admicity’s flexible automated workflows enable schools to manage a wide range of administrative processes within a single system, reducing the need for multiple software products. With a fixed cost, Admicity is accessible to schools of all sizes.
Admicity is currently used by 30 schools with a new customer onboarding every week. Admicity has benefited our schools by reducing their workload, improving data accuracy and enabling them to manage staff and student administrative process much more efficiently. We are constantly refining and improving our software in response to suggestions from our schools.
Fruitify
Fruitify is an AI-powered formative assessment and feedback platform designed to help teachers deliver faster, more effective feedback while significantly reducing marking workload.
In many classrooms, feedback on written work can take days or even weeks to return to pupils. By the time it arrives, the opportunity to correct misconceptions or reinforce learning has often passed. Fruitify was created to close this feedback loop.
The platform analyses student responses, transcribes handwritten work, and generates structured feedback linked to assessment objectives in seconds. Teachers remain firmly in control, reviewing and editing feedback before it is shared with students. This allows teachers to return meaningful feedback while the learning is still fresh, helping pupils improve more quickly.
Fruitify also highlights patterns across a class and can generate follow-up quizzes based on areas where students need further support, helping teachers adapt lessons and address gaps in understanding.
Launched within the past year, Fruitify is already being used by schools across the UK through live trials. Early adoption shows strong potential to reduce teacher workload, accelerate feedback cycles, and support more responsive teaching and learning in classrooms.
Learning Way London – Learning Way Plus®
At Learning Way Plus®, our entry into the market with an electrostatic planner was not simply about launching a product, but about introducing a new way of thinking about planning.
The planner served as a starting point – demonstrating how visibility, flexibility, and reusability can transform the way individuals organise their time and tasks. More importantly, it allowed us to explore how these principles can be applied within educational environments.
Today, our focus extends beyond a single product. Our brand is evolving towards developing curriculum-aligned, reusable, and interactive learning tools designed for schools and educational institutions. A key insight driving this direction is that many institutions are not yet aware of their need for such tools – however, once introduced, the impact on planning, engagement, and learning becomes immediately clear.
Learning Way Plus® represents a journey from a single entry product to a broader learning ecosystem – one that supports more visible, structured, and effective learning experiences.
Pedalogic – Pageticker
Pageticker is a digital reading diary – an app for parents, and a web-based dashboard for teachers – designed to track children’s reading progress, engage families in reading, and save teachers valuable time.
Schools using Pageticker see 78% more reading logged compared to paper-based reading diaries. Teachers get an instant overview of children’s reading and the progress they are making, saving them a reported 45 minutes per week. Children earn badges and certificates, can enter challenges, and are further motivated by building their bookshelf – a beautiful record of every book a child has ever read.
Pageticker is a simple, affordable solution that is playing a key role in elevating the reading culture in a rapidly increasing number of primary schools in the UK.
Student Radar
Student Radar is a school SaaS platform that gives schools a single, joined-up view of pupil support across attendance, behaviour, SEND, and safeguarding. Built by SENDlink, a small, self-funded team, it launched in late 2025 and is now live with pilot schools across England.
The platform pulls data from the school’s MIS and presents it through a colour-coded heat map, surfacing the pupils who need attention before things escalate. Staff can see the full picture of a child in one place, log contact with parents, track interventions, and assign follow-up actions without switching between systems.
Student Radar also includes an AI-powered Individual Support Plan generator, designed in direct response to the government’s 2026 SEND reforms and the forthcoming statutory duty on schools to create ISPs. The tool assists SENCOs in drafting professional, statutory-ready plans while keeping human judgement at the centre of every decision.
Early adopter schools have responded positively, with organic adoption spreading from SENCOs to senior leadership teams and family workers within weeks of onboarding. The platform integrates with school MIS systems via Wonde and is built to scale from individual schools to multi-academy trusts.
No child should go unnoticed. Student Radar makes sure they don’t.