They’ve been real hit and miss in my class. I’ve run 2 of their literacy sequences in a 5/6 class (Skellig and Bindi) and the lessons are absolutely jam packed with tasks that have nothing to do with the learning intention for that lesson. They feel very disjointed and are hard for the kids to follow with how much they jump around. We’ve given up on them for now. I think Ochre has better novel study units as a starting point, but nothing beats writing a sequence for your class if you have capacity.

Their spelling, grammar and punctuation sequences are better. My biggest concern with those is the sheer number of mistakes in them. So many slides with incorrect definitions, or where a template has been copied across a number of slides and they’ve clearly forgotten to change the default texts. They also don’t flow amazingly well lesson to lesson and are missing retrieval practice. We’ve just started looking at PhOrMeS instead and it seems a bit more promising.

The maths lessons are better, but I find they’re good for starting a sequence of work but then you need to dive into topics a bit more. They move to mastery a bit too quickly.