eduu.school is an online teaching and learning platform developed for key stages 1 - 4 by an expert team of industry leaders in curriculum, publishing, mental health and personal development. It enables schools to deliver a broad and blended curriculum to all students, whether they are learning in the classroom or at home remotely. Click here to learn more.

eduu.school will be available from Spring 2021. Until then, you can access free sample resources (one theme per key stage) online here.

eduu.school was first launched as a pilot scheme in the summer of 2020 to provide immediate support to schools during the coronavirus pandemic (find out more here). It has since been developed to provide a longer-term solution to offering a blended home and classroom experience, and directly supports schools seeking an integrated remote learning approach in response to recent DfE requirements (read the full DfE report here).

eduu.school is developed in partnership with Hodder Education Group, Shireland Collegiate Academy Trust, GLUU and What on Earth Publishing. You can find out more about the partnership online here.

The resources for KS1-3 can be used for blended and remote learning. Pedagogical guidance is provided on hybrid learning. Apart from the family learning activities, the resources are intended to be teacher-led in either synchronous or asynchronous learning.

Teachers can share resources with pupils from the eduu.school platform in the following ways:

• Share within the eduu.school platform – and pupils logon to see what has been allocated to them
• Share via Google Classroom
• Share via Microsoft Teams
• Generate a weblink which can be sent to pupils
• Downloading a resource (if downloadable) and emailing or sharing via the school’s VLE.

If using Microsoft Teams, teachers can use the resources in live lessons in the following way:

• Teacher is in Teams and schedules / records a Live Lesson in the Microsoft tools
• They deliver / record the Lesson, during which they can open Eduu.school site what is on their screen is captured as part of the Live Lesson
• They generate a link to the saved Lesson and share it with the students – either directly in Teams or upload the link as a resource the eduu.school service and share that way along with our resources 

A theme includes several features that are intended to support you in delivering a rigorous, exciting and purposeful curriculum.  

• Each theme has a driving question, this is intended to frame learning and provide a bigger picture view for the learning
• The theme overview gives an overview of all the different elements related to the theme, including a snapshot view of curriculum coverage, learning outcomes, essential knowledge and vocabulary. 
• A suggested excite activity to introduce and engage pupils with the theme.
• A series of lesson or sessions, called ‘explores’ which are designed to be taught across the half term and for schools to fit in flexibly with how they currently timetable foundation subjects. In the sample content there are 15 Explores for Worth Repeating and 16 for Amazing Islands. Each of these have teacher notes with detailed support for teachers to teach the session and accompanying teaching slides, alongside additional pupil resources when needed. A real focus has been placed on ensuring that the content of the resources provide scaffold and support to both teachers and pupils.
• There are opportunities for formative assessment throughout, and some of the pupil outcomes are highlighted in the ‘excel’ feature for this purpose. There is also an end of unit low-stakes self-marking quiz to check understanding of the essential knowledge of the theme.
• The People, Place and Time feature provides opportunities for pupils to contextualise their learning through the significant people, places and events around each theme. These can also be used to develop a depth of learning and encourage pupils to see the interrelationships between themes. 
• Knowledge bank gives a ready-made knowledge organiser for the theme that pupils can refer to, or that teachers can use throughout the theme as a tool to check knowledge and understanding. It includes the essential knowledge and vocabulary related to the theme. There is also a knowledge organiser template provided for pupils to fill in as they learn.
•  Cultural awareness gives suggestions of key artists, poets, pieces of music related to the theme. In providing a broad and balanced curriculum it is important that pupils are given the cultural capital needed to flourish in the world outside. To be able to leave school knowing key artists, poets, pieces of music and art will allow learners to access the curriculum in its widest sense and beyond, growing an appreciation for cultural wealth. 
• For each theme there are six activities (one per week) for pupils to ‘Explore with your family’. They are intended to encourage pupils’ curiosity and creativity and to extend learning beyond school, engaging pupils and families in the context and content of the key thematic learning. At launch in November there will be 2 per theme – with the rest to follow

A Key Stage 3 theme includes several features that are intended to support teachers in delivering a rigorous, exciting and purposeful curriculum. 

• Each theme has a driving question which is intended to frame learning and provide a bigger picture view for the learning.

• The theme overview gives an overview of all the different elements related to the theme, including a snapshot view of curriculum coverage, learning outcomes, essential knowledge and vocabulary.

• A series of lesson which are designed to be taught across the half term and to flexibly fit in with your current schemes of work. In Grand Designs there are 14 lessons. Each of these have teacher notes with detailed support on teaching the lessons and accompanying teaching slides, alongside additional student resources when needed. A real focus has been placed on ensuring that the content of the resources provide scaffold and support to both teachers and students.

• There are opportunities for formative assessment throughout, and some of the student outcomes are highlighted in the ‘excel’ feature for this purpose. There is also an end of unit low-stakes self-marking quiz to check understanding of the essential knowledge of the theme. Student responses will feed into reports, with colour-coded dashboards for instant visibility on student engagement and performance, regardless of their location.

• The People, Place and Time feature provides opportunities for students to contextualise their learning through the significant people, places and events around each theme. These can also be used to develop a depth of learning and encourage students to see the interrelationships between themes.

• Knowledge bank gives a ready-made knowledge organiser for the theme that students can refer to, or that teachers can use throughout the theme as a tool to check knowledge and understanding. It includes the essential knowledge and vocabulary related to the theme.

• Cultural capital gives suggestions of key artists, poets, pieces of music related to the theme. In providing a broad and balanced curriculum it is important that students are given the cultural capital needed to flourish in the world outside. To be able to leave school knowing key artists, poets, pieces of music and art will allow learners to access the curriculum in its widest sense and beyond, growing an appreciation for cultural wealth.

• For each theme there are six Family learning activities (one per week). They are intended encourage students’ curiosity and creativity and to extend learning beyond school, engaging students and families in the context and content of the key thematic learning.

A Key Stage 4 theme includes several features that are intended to encourage academic curiosity and an engagement with independent learning that students can use to enrich and enhance their knowledge of the world and the GCSE subjects they are studying. It also aims to widen students knowledge of the support and advice available to them.

A theme is structured into the following sections:

• Subject success
  Subject success includes guided activities through PowerPoint slides and links to video clips and websites which engage young people in issues around aspects of each theme. Students can then guide themselves from here to materials to extend their understanding, adding a GCSE ‘subject element’ to their understanding. Finally, students can move to embed their subject knowledge by using revision quizzes that link to the subject(s) that have been covered in the theme.  

• Our wider world
  Our wider world is about investigating opportunities to look beyond and outside school subjects. Going out suggests bespoke virtual ‘school trips’ or visits based around the theme, and students are encouraged to ‘read, watch and listen’ with links to books, films and podcasts/music which are relevant to the theme and which will enrich their cultural capital.  This section also links out to information on careers that are related to the theme.

• Looking after yourself
  Looking after yourself is at the core of everything that the themes are designed to do. It has a focus on wellbeing with activities that aim to get students to think about how they can support themselves and each other both in the present and moving forward. 

Teachers will be able to share resources with learners from the eduu.school platform in the following ways:

• Share within the eduu.school platform – and learners logon to see what has been allocated to them (this is available when the full service is launched).

• Share via online platforms such as Microsoft Teams, Google Classroom, SeeSaw etc

• Generate a weblink which can be sent to learners

• Download a resource (if downloadable) and emailing or sharing via the school’s VLE

There are a range of Professional Development videos which give guidance on hybrid learning and how the resources could be used in different contexts. In addition, some pedagogical guidance on how to carry out hybrid learning is also provided within the platform.