Easy Reader Club for Primary Schools

Measurable reading practice without more marking

Give Year 6 pupils focused reading-comprehension practice while teachers see how individual skills are developing over time. Start with one class, evaluate the results, and expand only if it works for your school.

  • Year 6 reading
  • SATs-style practice
  • Teacher progress dashboard
  • No pupil-to-pupil messaging
  • Flexible deployment

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Year 6 — Willow (example data)

Illustration of the teacher view. Names and figures are invented.

Class accuracy

72%

Direction

Improving

Pupils practising

28

Skills mastered

41

Example class overview showing the metrics available to teachers
PupilAccuracyTrendGrowth from baselineFocus skill
A. Ahmed81%Improving+14None
B. Okafor76%Stable+6Inference
C. Ferreira58%Improving+11Vocabulary
D. Nowak69%Declining−3Sequencing
E. Byrne88%Stable+9None

More practice is useful only when you can see whether it is helping

Practice without marking

Pupils complete structured reading exercises and get their answers marked automatically, with a review step that explains what went wrong.

See individual growth

Progress is measured against each pupil's own starting point, not just against the rest of the class.

Understand the class

Class-level views show which skills are becoming secure and which ones are causing difficulty across the group.

Keep practice focused

The pupil experience is built around short, structured exercises rather than maximising time on site.

Easy Reader Club is designed to support professional judgement, not to replace teacher assessment.

How Easy Reader Club works

  1. Step 1

    Create classes

    An approved teacher creates a class — up to three per teacher — and shares its six-character class code with pupils.

  2. Step 2

    Pupils practise

    Pupils complete reading-comprehension exercises covering retrieval, inference, vocabulary and sequencing.

  3. Step 3

    The platform measures progress

    Completed exercises feed accuracy trends, proficiency scores, personal baselines, skill status and mastery progression.

  4. Step 4

    Teachers review

    Teachers see class and pupil-level views and can identify where additional support may be useful.

From scores to useful literacy signals

Every signal below is live in the teacher dashboard today. Teachers see pupil usernames and progress data — never pupil email addresses.

Per pupil

  • Current reading accuracy and recent accuracy trend
  • Proficiency score (0–100) and adaptive difficulty level (−3 to +3)
  • Personal baseline and growth from that baseline
  • Mastery status per skill, and how many exercises it took to reach it
  • Focus, recovering and cleared skill flags with error rates
  • Practice streak and weekly average

Per class

  • Class accuracy average and overall direction of travel
  • Class median per skill, as a relative baseline
  • Mastery distribution — learning, consolidating, mastered
  • A heatmap of the skills causing most difficulty across the class
  • Review completion, showing whether pupils work through their mistakes
  • Class list export as CSV

A class baseline tells you where a pupil sits relative to the current class. A personal baseline shows whether that pupil is improving from their own starting point. We show both, because relative position and personal growth answer different questions.

Pupils do not see peer rankings by default, and there is no pupil-to-pupil messaging.

Built to measure educational progress, not screen time

Easy Reader Club is designed to collect learning evidence from completed reading exercises: performance by skill, improvement from baseline, error patterns and mastery progression. We are working with schools to test how useful these signals are in real classrooms and to improve the methodology.

Personal baseline
Is the pupil improving from where they started?
Class median
How does current performance compare with the class?
Mastery
Is a skill becoming consistently secure?
Error patterns
Which skills repeatedly cause difficulty?
Review completion
Are pupils working back through the questions they got wrong?

Choose the deployment model that fits your school

Managed hosting is the fastest route to a pilot. The other two models are things we are actively discussing with schools rather than shrink-wrapped products — we would rather say so than imply otherwise.

Recommended

Managed hosting

Easy Reader Club hosts and maintains the service. Teachers and pupils use the platform through a secure web browser, and your school does not operate any application infrastructure.

  • Managed application and database hosting
  • Updates handled by Easy Reader Club
  • Secure browser access — nothing to install
  • Fastest route to a pilot
Available by discussion

Dedicated school deployment

For schools or trusts that require greater isolation, we can discuss a dedicated managed deployment operated for your organisation. This is a discussion, not a product we run today.

Available by discussion

Self-hosted / school-managed

Interested in self-hosting? Talk to us. We are assessing what schools with their own IT capability would need — packaging, upgrades, backups and the support boundary — before offering it as a supported option.

Designed for school scrutiny

We would rather make your data-protection and IT conversations easier than hide them behind sales copy. Where a document does not exist yet, this page says so and points you at a person.

Data minimisation

Teacher accounts hold a name and work email. Pupil records hold a username plus the practice data needed to show progress — attempts, answers, scores, skill status and mastery. Class accounts created by a teacher sign in with a username and password rather than an email address. Where a family links a parent email for progress reports, that email is stored too. We can provide a full field-level data inventory to support your assessment.

Child-safe interaction

There is no pupil-to-pupil messaging, no open chat for pupils and no profile photo upload. Pupils choose from a fixed set of avatars. Answers are marked on the server, so a pupil cannot alter their own result from the browser. Access is role-based: pupils, teachers and administrators see different things, and teachers are not shown pupil email addresses.

Data protection

Our privacy notice is published and linked below. A school Data Processing Agreement, subprocessor list, retention schedule and DPIA support pack are provided on request — send us an enquiry and we will supply what your assessment needs. We do not claim that using Easy Reader Club makes your school compliant; that assessment is yours to make, and our job is to give you the information for it.

Security

All traffic is served over HTTPS. Teachers sign in with a passwordless magic link rather than a stored password. Authorisation is role-based and checked on the server for every request. Sensitive endpoints are rate limited. Account changes such as closure are written to an audit log. We can talk your IT lead through the current arrangements in detail.

AI transparency

Generative AI is used to create reading passages and questions. It is not used to mark pupils: marking compares the answer a pupil selected against the stored correct answer on the server, so it is deterministic and repeatable. Scoring, access control and progress calculations are all server-controlled rather than delegated to a learner-facing model. We do not train models on pupil work, and we can confirm the current provider and its data-processing terms in writing.

Start small. Evaluate it. Decide from evidence.

A 8-week evaluation with one class, structured so you decide from evidence rather than from a sales pitch.

  1. 1

    Discovery

    A 20–30 minute call with your Year 6 or literacy lead, and your IT lead or DPO if that is useful. We cover objectives, cohort size, devices, deployment preference and what your procurement process needs.

  2. 2

    Pilot

    One Year 6 class, typically two to three exercises per pupil per week. Baselines are established in the first sessions so there is something to measure against, and we agree the end-of-pilot review up front.

  3. 3

    Review and rollout

    We look at participation, review completion, movement from personal baselines, class skill patterns and teacher feedback. Then you decide: stop, extend, or buy for a class, a year group or the school.

Design-partner schools can pilot free in exchange for structured feedback. Talk to us about what makes sense for yours.

Simple school plans, sized to how you use the platform

School pricing depends on how many classes and pupils are involved, the support you need and the deployment model. Tell us your shape and we will quote it.

Class

For an individual Year 6 class, an intervention group, or extending a pilot.

Request pricing

  • One class
  • Full teacher dashboard
  • Monthly or annual

Year group / School

For a whole year group or a school-wide rollout.

Contact us

  • Number of classes
  • Pupil volume
  • Support requirements

Dedicated / self-hosted

Where a school or trust needs a deployment model of its own.

Contact us

  • Deployment and support obligations
  • Infrastructure model
  • Upgrade terms

Questions schools ask us

What is Easy Reader Club?

A reading-comprehension practice platform for primary pupils. Pupils complete short SATs-style exercises that are marked automatically, and teachers get a dashboard showing how each pupil is progressing skill by skill.

Which year groups is it designed for?

It is designed primarily for Year 6. Year 5 pupils can use it for early preparation. We suggest starting a school pilot with Year 6, where the progress signals are most useful.

Is it specifically for SATs?

The practice is SATs-style, because that is the format UK Year 6 pupils meet. The four skills it measures — retrieval, inference, vocabulary and sequencing — are general comprehension skills rather than test technique, and we expect the product to broaden beyond SATs.

How long does a typical exercise take?

Around ten minutes: a short passage followed by a handful of questions, then an optional review of anything answered incorrectly.

How often should pupils use it?

Two to three exercises a week is the pattern we suggest for a pilot. Short and regular produces better signals — and better reading — than occasional long sessions.

Which reading skills are measured?

Four: retrieval (finding stated facts), inference (reading between the lines), vocabulary in context, and sequencing (the order and organisation of a text).

How are exercises generated?

Passages and questions are generated with large-language-model APIs, server-side, and cached before delivery. Difficulty is set from the pupil’s current adaptive level rather than chosen at random.

How are answers marked?

On the server, by comparing the option a pupil selected against the stored correct answer. Marking is deterministic — no model is asked to judge a pupil’s answer, and the browser cannot influence the result.

Can teachers see individual pupil progress?

Yes. For each pupil in their class a teacher sees accuracy and trend, proficiency score, adaptive difficulty, personal baseline and growth, mastery status per skill, and any skills currently flagged as a focus area. Teachers are not shown pupil email addresses.

What is a personal baseline?

A pupil’s own starting point, computed from their earliest completed exercises. Growth is then measured against it, so a pupil who starts behind the class can still show clear improvement.

What is the class baseline?

The median performance per skill across the pupils in that class. It answers a different question from the personal baseline — where a pupil sits relative to their peers, rather than whether they are improving.

What does mastery mean?

Each of the four skills is tracked as learning, consolidating or mastered, based on recent accuracy in that skill over a rolling window. The dashboard also shows how many exercises it took a pupil to reach mastery.

How does the platform identify a focus area?

It watches error patterns per skill. When the error rate in a skill stays high, that skill is flagged as a focus area; as accuracy recovers the flag moves to recovering and then clears.

Can a teacher manage more than one class?

Yes — up to three classes per teacher account today. If you need more than that for a year group, tell us as part of the enquiry.

How do pupils join a class?

With a six-character class code from their teacher. The code excludes easily confused characters, so it can be read out or written on a board. Teachers can also create class accounts directly.

Does the platform replace teacher assessment?

No, and it is not designed to. It gives you evidence from completed practice to inform professional judgement.

What personal data is stored?

Teacher accounts hold a name and work email. Pupil records hold a username and their practice data — attempts, answers, scores, skill status and mastery. Class accounts created by a teacher use a username and password rather than an email address. Where a family links a parent email for reports, that email is stored. We can provide a full field-level inventory on request.

Where is data hosted?

We will confirm the current hosting arrangements and region in writing as part of your assessment rather than making a claim on a marketing page. Please contact us and we will provide this in writing for your assessment.

How long is school and pupil data retained?

Accounts can be closed, which removes access and begins removal of the associated records. A written retention schedule for schools is provided on request. Please contact us and we will provide this in writing for your assessment.

Can a school request deletion or export of its data?

Yes. Teachers can already export their class list as a CSV from the dashboard. For a broader export or a deletion request covering a class, year group or school, contact us and we will handle it as a documented request.

Is there a Data Processing Agreement?

We provide a school DPA on request as part of the procurement pack. Please contact us and we will provide this in writing for your assessment.

Can you support our DPIA?

Yes. We can provide schools with the information needed to complete their own data-protection impact assessment — what data is processed, why, where it goes and who else is involved. Send an enquiry marked "Data protection / DPA" and we will respond with the detail.

What generative AI is used?

Commercial large-language-model APIs generate the reading passages and questions. The provider is configurable, and we will confirm the current one and its data-processing terms in writing. No model is involved in marking a pupil’s answer.

Is pupil content used to train public AI models?

We do not train models on pupil work. Pupil answers are marked by comparison against the stored correct answer and are not sent to a model for that purpose. We can confirm the current provider’s terms in writing.

What security controls are in place?

HTTPS throughout; passwordless magic-link sign-in for teachers; role-based authorisation checked server-side on every request; server-side marking so results cannot be altered from the browser; rate limiting on sensitive endpoints; and audit logging of account changes. We are happy to go through this with your IT lead.

Can we use the managed hosted version?

Yes — that is the recommended route and the fastest way to start a pilot. Your school operates no infrastructure; teachers and pupils use a browser.

Can we request a dedicated instance?

It is available by discussion rather than off the shelf. We do not run tenant-isolated deployments today, so treat it as a conversation about what your trust needs and what we would have to build.

Can we self-host Easy Reader Club?

Not as a supported product today. We are assessing what self-managed deployment would require — packaging, upgrades, backup and restore, and where the support boundary sits. If your IT team has the capability and the interest, we would genuinely like to talk.

What happens if our internet connection is unavailable?

Easy Reader Club is a browser-based service and needs a connection. It can be installed as a web app and shows a clear offline notice if the network drops, but pupils need connectivity to load and submit an exercise.

What support is available?

We respond to school enquiries and support requests by email. Rather than publish a support commitment we cannot yet stand behind, we will agree what you need as part of setting up a pilot. Please contact us and we will provide this in writing for your assessment.

Can we run a pilot first?

Yes, and we would prefer it. One Year 6 class, six to eight weeks, baselines established early and an agreed review at the end. Design-partner schools can pilot free in exchange for structured feedback.

What does a school subscription cost?

It depends on the number of classes and pupils, the support you need and the deployment model. Request school pricing and we will quote for your actual shape rather than a list price that does not fit.

Can a trust or multiple schools use the platform?

Talk to us. Nothing prevents several schools from using the managed service, but multi-school administration is not built yet, so we want to understand what a trust would actually need before promising it.

How do teachers get approved?

A teacher registers, and an administrator reviews the registration before dashboard access is granted. Until then the teacher sees a pending screen. This is deliberate: it keeps class and pupil data away from unverified accounts.

How do we contact Easy Reader Club about procurement?

Use the enquiry form on this page and pick the closest enquiry type. It reaches a person, not a marketing list — we only use the details to reply.

Talk to us about your school

Tell us roughly what you are looking at and we will reply to the work email you give us. Please do not include any pupil details.

Interested in using Easy Reader Club with your pupils?

Whether you want to test it with one class, evaluate it with your literacy team, or discuss deployment with your IT lead, start with a short conversation.