Empowering Every Learner
Our Mission
Education Shed helps children develop essential foundational skills through evidence-informed pedagogy, high-quality teaching resources and engaging educational technology. We strive to create products that deliver maximum impact with minimal hassle, while remaining affordable for schools and families.
Our Products
FREE TIER
- All Core Spelling, Phonics & Math Games
- Student Logins
- Assignments
- Test Mode (7-Days Data)
- Hive Games (7-Days Data)
- Challenges (7-Days Data)
- Custom Leagues (7-Days Data)
PREMIUM TIER
- Complete teaching curriculum for Spelling, Phonics & Math
- Grammar Arcade - Grammar and Punctuation Games
- BeeSieged - Tower Defense Spelling Game
- Mastery Zone - AI Spelling Progression
- Assignment Sets & Lock-out
- Unlimited Data
- Group Proficiency Tracker
Spelling Shed uses the Science of Spelling to teach spelling effectively. It builds on a foundation of phonics while drawing on research-informed approaches such as morphology, etymology, orthographic mapping and the explicit teaching of spelling patterns. Complementing the teaching programme is a suite of engaging games that provide meaningful practice and motivation for learners. Today, Spelling Shed is used by millions of pupils worldwide.
Spelling Shed includes:
- A complete, printable scheme of work organised into 36 weekly word lists for each year group, with built-in progression and review.
- Weekly lesson plans, teaching slides and printable worksheets to support the delivery of spelling, grammar and punctuation objectives.
- Award winning games that motivate children to practise their spellings more regularly, leading to improved outcomes and success for all to celebrate.
- Powerful assessment and tracking tools that provide instant insights into pupils practice, progress and attainment.
- A flexible curriculum solution that supports classroom, remote and hybrid learning.
Phonics Shed is a DfE-validated systematic synthetic phonics programme with coverage from sound awareness in preschool to a full phonics scheme of learning. This leads into Spelling Shed’s complementary spelling system and is also compatible with 2007 Letters and Sounds.
Joe is your guide through the Phonics Shed garden and will introduce you to all of our characters. Each character you meet will teach you a new grapheme-phoneme correspondence, helping children develop their reading skills step by step.
The comprehensive planning and overview documents are supported by physical and digital books, flashcards and all the supplementary resources needed to deliver a flexible, multisensory approach. Resources also include a Joe puppet, providing a fun and memorable way to engage children and support classroom learning.
MathShed is a comprehensive mathematics platform designed to improve outcomes while increasing pupils’ enjoyment of mathematics. Aligned with White Rose Maths and other mastery curricula, its fully resourced teaching slides support effective whole-class teaching. Built around a concrete–pictorial–abstract approach and enhanced by micro-differentiation, MathShed helps all learners succeed. Engaging fluency games provide meaningful practice, enabling pupils to consolidate and apply their mathematical knowledge with confidence.
The game-based elements of MathShed keep children engaged and eager to practise their mathematical skills. Low-stakes games, quizzes and reward systems make learning mathematics enjoyable, motivating pupilss to practise regularly and build confidence. Activities can be used in the classroom or assigned for home learning, making MathShed an ideal solution for in-school, remote or hybrid learning.
Beyond times tables and number bonds, MathShed provides a wealth of teaching resources and activities spanning the entire primary mathematics curriculum, from Measurement, Shape, Fractions, Decimals and Percentages to Algebra. Comprehensive teaching slides, question sets and digital lessons fully support National Curriculum coverage across all primary year groups. In addition, a complete collection of Early Number Sense question sets helps children build a strong mathematical foundation from the very beginning.
QuizShed is a FREE resource that helps pupils learn through fun, quick-fire quizzes. Flexible and easy to use, it can be used in the classroom or remotely, with individuals or groups, as a starter activity or as a consolidation task.
Create your own quizzes
Create, customise and share your own quiz question sets. Fully integrated with the EdShed platform, QuizShed includes exclusive Spelling Shed and MathShed content for subscribers, making it easy to create engaging and familiar learning experiences.
Engaging lessons
Whether used in the classroom or remotely, QuizShed quizzes provide a fun and flexible way to assess and reinforce learning. Perfect as starter activities, plenaries or consolidation tasks, QuizShed helps to keep pupilss motivated, engaged and eager to learn.
Literacy Shed Plus is a comprehensive literacy teaching platform that provides schools with expertly designed resources, planning and assessment tools to support high-quality English teaching across the primary phase. Built on the foundations of the award-winning Literacy Shed website, it transforms engaging visual stimuli and inspiring texts into complete teaching sequences that save teachers time while improving outcomes for pupilss.
The platform offers thousands of ready-to-use resources covering reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, spelling and spoken language. Teachers can access detailed lesson plans, model texts, comprehension activities, vocabulary investigations, grammar lessons and writing outcomes that align with curriculum objectives and progression frameworks.
A key strength of Literacy Shed Plus is its focus on engagement. Lessons are built around high-quality literature, films, images and real-world contexts that inspire curiosity, discussion and creativity. This helps children develop stronger reading comprehension, richer vocabulary and greater confidence as writers.
Literacy Shed Plus helps schools reduce teacher workload while maintaining high standards of teaching and learning. By combining exceptional literacy content with practical classroom resources, it enables teachers to create memorable learning experiences that foster a lifelong love of reading, writing and storytelling. For schools seeking a complete literacy solution, Literacy Shed Plus provides the tools, inspiration and expertise needed to help every child thrive.
Interactive Letter Tile Tool Free
A powerful literacy tool, completely free to use.
- Extensive selection of tiles, including letters, graphemes, prefixes, suffixes, colour blocks, grammar symbols and accented characters.
- Freehand drawing tools for annotation and modelling.
- Tiles snap together effortlessly to build words and explore spelling patterns.
- Integrated dictionary support, featuring phonics notation, definitions and audio pronunciations.
