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How schools and families use Tassomai, and the results they see, in their own words. Real examples from real classrooms.

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Case study, Tips for teachers · 21 March 2022

Using Tassomai to help close the attainment gap in my school

Faye Brodrick, Head of Science at Ysgol Maesydderwen Comprehensive School in Swansea tells us how she created a ‘secret Tassomai club’ with her lowest attaining students in order to narrow the gap between her school’s highest and lowest grades.

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Case study, Tips for teachers · 4 October 2021

Using Tassomai data to improve interventions (and save time on marking too)!

Nick Cleator, Head of Science at Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy in Cheshire tells us how Tassomai data has changed his department’s approach to homework and lesson planning.

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Case study, Tips for teachers · 21 May 2021

English teaching deserves edtech too

Abi Ludlow, English teacher and Tassomai lead at Richard Lander School in Truro discusses her experience with Tassomai’s KS4 English literature content and her hopes for its future.

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Case study · 4 May 2021

Tassomai and Torquay Academy - An Award-Winning Team?

Tassomai is a BETT and ERA Awards finalist for its unique content collaboration project with Torquay Academy. Find out what Reece Broome, Head of Online Learning, has to say about the program and how his school embraced Tassomai across every department.

Case study · 2 March 2021

Learning in lockdown

Andy Darracott is the Deputy Head of Science at The Petersfield School in Hampshire, he tells us how Tassomai helped his school to personalise teaching during the pandemic.

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Case study, Tips for parents · 11 March 2020

Surviving the stress of GCSEs… How Tassomai helped our family!

Elaine subscribed to Tassomai to help her daughters through their GCSEs . The family have seen the impact that Tassomai can have on grades, exam stress and revision planning.

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Case study, Tips for teachers · 6 March 2020

Independent learning with Tassomai

Head of Science, James Stradling writes about the challenges facing our coastline schools and using Tassomai as a tool to promote independent study.

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Case study, Tips for teachers · 13 January 2020

Tassomai at Key Stage 3

Heathfield Community School is one of the schools using Tassomai’s new Key Stage 3 content, with a particular focus on their Pupil Premium students .  Emily Mason, Heathfield’s Pupil Premium Coordinator tells us about implementing the program and their progress so far.

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Tips for students, Case study · 10 October 2019

My approach to Tassomai… a student’s success story

A Tassomai student tells us how she used the program to help her go from 4s and 5s to 8s and 9s, discovering a newfound love for science along the way!

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Tips for teachers, Case study · 1 May 2019

Less paperwork, more learning

Laura Foulsham, Head of Science at St. John Bosco College tells us why (and how) her department made Tassomai the primary homework for all KS4 students , significantly reducing the time spent on admin and marking.

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Case study, Tips for teachers · 10 January 2019

Improving outcomes

Ben Parnell, Regional Director for Greenshaw Learning Trust identified Tassomai as an intervention tool to improve science outcomes in two schools in the West Country, each with their own challenges.

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Tips for teachers, Case study · 28 November 2018

Rapid results in just a few months

Matthew Moss High School introduced Tassomai in the run up to Christmas and got their best ever GCSE science results within just 6 months - Claire Crichton-Allen tells us how they did it!

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Case study, Tips for teachers · 12 November 2018

Making the Grade with Tassomai

Carole Dean, Headteacher at The Stonehenge School on reducing the gender gap and her school’s spectacular GCSE science results.

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Case study · 30 May 2018

How Tassomai helped my students get more A’s and B’s (and I ended up in A&E)

Science teacher Richard Fulford on his Tassomai experience, the impact on grades and how it halved teacher marking in year 11.

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Case study · 26 April 2018

“The Cheese Factor” Top Tips for Implementing EdTech in School

David Back, Assistant Headteacher at James Hornsby School in Essex talks about tech in the classroom and how he got Tassomai up and running.

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Case study · 27 March 2018

The A* Team - How Tassomai is helping students succeed at GCSE science

In August 2017, GCSE results were published and we were able to see how our Tassomai students got on in their exams. 

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