Secondary – Outstanding Curriculum and Assessment Resource
Bedrock Learning
Bedrock is a curriculum and assessment platform designed to develop academic language and support disciplinary literacy across secondary education. By teaching subject-specific vocabulary explicitly, it enables students to access increasingly complex texts and engage more confidently with curriculum content.
The platform provides a structured vocabulary curriculum across English, science, history and geography, ensuring that students understand not just definitions, but how language functions within each discipline. Vocabulary is introduced, revisited and applied through carefully sequenced learning, supporting long-term retention and deeper comprehension.
Bedrock integrates both formative and summative assessment. Ongoing practice provides real-time insight into student understanding, while the Bedrock Reading Test offers nationally standardised measures including Reading Age and Standardised Age Score. This allows teachers to identify gaps and respond quickly, supporting whole-school literacy development.
Aggregated platform data shows that students who consistently use Bedrock for six months achieve an average five-point increase in Standardised Age Score. By combining curriculum and assessment in a single system, Bedrock supports improved reading comprehension and access to subject learning across the curriculum.
Flash Learning
Flash Learning is an online revision app designed to support 11+ and GCSE learners through structured, independent, and adaptive study. Its core aim is to make high-quality exam preparation accessible, affordable, and effective, reducing reliance on expensive one-to-one tuition.
Learners begin with a smart onboarding assessment that identifies strengths and areas for improvement, allowing revision to be focused where it has the greatest impact. The platform adapts as students practise, using data-driven tasks to reinforce understanding and target weaker topics. Short, exam-style activities encourage regular practice, while daily tests, streaks, badges, and leaderboards help maintain motivation and engagement.
Parents and schools benefit from a clear progress dashboard, providing visibility of learning without requiring subject expertise. Revision content includes thousands of exam-style flashcards with explanations and worked solutions, video support, and monthly practice papers aligned to exam board expectations, alongside exam analysis that highlights common topics and marking trends.
A substantial proportion of the platform is free to use, with an optional low-cost subscription offering enhanced exam preparation features. Fully digital delivery supports accessibility, sustainability, and continuous improvement, ensuring learners receive up-to-date, effective revision support in a safe and supportive environment.
Hachette Learning – Adaptive Revise
Adaptive Revise: Personalised, adaptive GCSE exam preparation.
Adaptive Revise is the smarter, more effective way for students to study and prepare for their GCSEs exams. Using adaptive technology, it creates personalised revision pathways tailored to each student’s needs. With focused exam practice, opportunities for self-reflection and clear progress tracking, students gain confidence, improve their grades, and save valuable time – while teachers get powerful insights to support learning.
Adaptive Revise is accessed in Hachette Learning Adaptive, a platform which harnesses cutting-edge AI-driven technology from Area9 Lyceum. It personalises the learning journey in real time based on each learner’s performance and confidence – building higher proficiency and ensuring no learner is left behind. Adaptive Revise:
- Accelerates progress with adaptive revision pathways that adjust to each student’s level, pace and confidence.
- Helps students stay focused and retain knowledge with engaging, bite-sized learning modules.
- Easily monitors student progress and identify where individuals need more support.
- Promotes wellbeing with support and practices that help students to manage stress.
- Builds exam confidence when approaching exam questions through structured exam-style questions, model answers, interactive mark schemes and expert tips.
- Keeps students motivated through automated feedback and progress reports.
Olex.AI
Olex.AI is the UK’s most comprehensive AI-powered platform for secondary English writing assessment, marking an entire class of 30 essays in under two minutes with detailed feedback aligned to GCSE Assessment Objectives, KS3 frameworks, and bespoke trust rubrics.
Unlike single-request AI tools, Olex integrates instant marking, individualised feedback, whole-class analysis, auto-generated lesson plans, longitudinal progression tracking (OlexAnalytics), and trust-wide reporting (Trust Insight Hub) in one seamless workflow.
In 2025/26, Olex has been embedded in over 120 multi-academy trusts. The Kemnal Academies Trust deployed Olex across 15 secondary schools, marking 5,691 essays, saving over 1,000 hours, and enabling 70 hours of additional CPD per teacher. The Challenge Academy Trust reported a 13% uplift in Grade 5 English Literature results.
Olex’s marking is highly accurate and consistently aligns within ±3 of the most experienced examiners.
With full GDPR and DfE compliance, EAL translation, SEND accessibility, teacher-in-the-loop control, and all features included at no additional cost, Olex delivers exceptional value while reducing workload and raising student outcomes.
PG Online – CREST – ClearRevise Exam Study Tutor
CREST, the ClearRevise Exam Study Tutor, is the world’s first AI-driven private tutor embedded directly into PG Online’s award-winning ClearRevise revision guides. Accompanying the printed guides, CREST is designed to act as an intelligent study companion that supports students with revision, homework and independent learning. Unlike generic AI tools, CREST is fully integrated with the content of each revision guide, ensuring precise, curriculum-aligned responses tailored to the GCSE specification.
Students can reference specific pages or questions in their book, asking for explanations, examples or even self-testing. For example, a learner might say, “Test me on Required practical 17” or “Explain the difference between an ion and an isotope.” CREST responds in clear, age-appropriate language, with options to simplify or expand explanations depending on the learner’s needs.
The Day
The Day is a digital literacy resource for young people. Schools use The Day to provide appropriate, unbiased, daily current affairs, boost literacy, critical thinking and debate, support the delivery of a relevant PSHCE curriculum and give all teachers the confidence to address sensitive topics.
The Day are a teacher-led resource, designed to integrate seamlessly into everyday classroom practice. Staff are fully supported with unlimited training from dedicated account managers, alongside comprehensive support documents and teacher notes, ensuring resources are embedded effectively across the school. The platform can be used flexibly – for form time discussions, full lesson planning, assemblies, PSHCE sessions, or even as homework – helping teachers save time while enriching their teaching. The Day provides opportunities to build essential literacy skills such as reading comprehension and critical thinking in every subject. We also address key PSHCE topics in line with the latest UK RSE guidelines.
By combining journalism with pedagogy, The Day helps students engage with real-world issues, boosting both their reading confidence and their ability to think critically and empathetically about the world around them.
The EverLearner
The EverLearner is a teaching, learning and assessment platform designed specifically for secondary Physical Education departments. Used by schools across the UK and internationally, it supports curriculum delivery from Key Stage 3 through to GCSE, A-Level, IBDP and vocational Sport qualifications.
The platform brings together curriculum-aligned teaching videos, interactive quizzes, exam practice and performance analytics in one system that teachers can use consistently across their department. This helps students build understanding, practise exam technique and develop confidence in applying their knowledge.
For teachers, The EverLearner reduces the time spent setting homework, creating revision materials, mock papers and tracking spreadsheets, while providing clear insight into student progress.
Alongside student learning tools, the platform also includes the PE Teacher Academy, offering flexible, on-demand professional development designed specifically for PE teachers.
Together, these elements support stronger theory teaching, clearer assessment practice and more confident delivery of exam PE across departments.