Highly effective lessons include explicit instruction, exploration and immediate feedback to engage active learners.

• Funny, playful characters guide learners through the programme.
• Complex skills are broken into smaller instructional units.
• Guided practice encourages pupils to roll up their sleeves and succeed.

Every lesson includes a wide range of short practice activities that reinforce skills through a variety of interesting formats.

• Pupils build deeper knowledge and synthesise skills.
• Short, brisk activities keep pupils engaged and on task.
• Self-paced activities allow pupils to review, revise and practise skills.
• Immediate affirmative and corrective feedback ensures pupil success.

Multi-layered reward system motivates pupils to keep making progress.

• Pupils earn golden acorn rewards for every activity they complete.
• Lesson completion rewarded with the hatching of a new online pet.
• Golden acorns can be traded for games, avatar items and treehouse decorations.
• Lessons build on a logical progression of skills.

Sequential map-based format provides powerful visual proof of pupil progress.

• The placement test places each pupil at the right level.
• Cumulative assessment charted to standards.
• Built-in assessment with end-of-map assessments and Driving Tests.
• Every pupil makes progress.

Lessons fully support pupils and provide teachers with useful feedback.

• A powerful learning cycle of pupil-centric learning as well as guided and supported practice ensures pupil mastery.
• Timely feedback and rewards help motivate learners and inform teachers.
• Teacher dashboard reports data in a variety of useful, actionable formats.