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Blue badge with Mai's line-drawn face reading 'Mai Day - 16th November' and 'Try Mai today!'

News, Tips for teachers · 5 November 2023

Give our AI-powered tutor a try on “Mai Day” - Thursday 16th November

Thursday 16th November is Mai Day ! An opportunity for all Tassomai students to try Mai, our amazing new AI-powered tutor .

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Tips for teachers, News · 31 August 2023

AI and more! What’s new for 23/24…

Meet Mai, our artificial intelligence powered tutor plus new parental engagement features for schools and much more!

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News, Tips for teachers · 19 May 2023

Tassomai are Education Resource Awards 2023 winners!

The Tassomai team are delighted to be winners at this year’s ERAs in the Secondary Resource or Equipment – Tools for leadership, management & assessment category .

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News, Tips for teachers · 4 January 2023

New Year, New Subjects!

After the success of our trial in the autumn term, we are delighted to be launching 3 new GCSE courses for Y9-11 students studying geography, history and computer science.

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News · 28 October 2022

What do parents need to know about geography GCSE?

Josh Tipping, former Head of Geography, talks to Tassomai about what parents need to know about the geography GCSE and how they can support their child with their revision...

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Tips for parents, Tips for teachers, News · 26 September 2022

New GCSE Survival Guide - Practical Advice for Parents of Y9-11s

As a new cohort of students embark upon their GCSE journey and others begin to think about their mocks, Tassomai has published an updated (free) guide for parents to help them navigate what can be a challenging time for families.

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News, Tips for teachers · 2 September 2022

Exciting New Updates for the New School Year

Welcome back! We hope you have all had a relaxing summer break and are looking forward to the new academic year. There have been a few changes on Tassomai over the last few months that we are excited to share with you all… 

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News, Tips for teachers · 4 July 2022

3 New Subjects to Launch in September: History, Geography and Computer Science

We are developing new GCSE history, geography and computer science content that we plan to launch in September for AQA, Edexcel and OCR exam boards...

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News · 24 June 2022

Congratulations year 11 students!

Getting back into the exam hall hasn’t been easy, for students and teachers alike, but it marks a great step towards ‘normality’ after the last few years. We’ve seen record quizzing numbers this year on Tassomai so are wishing all our students the best of luck with their results in August - we’re sure all your hard work has paid off…

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News, Tips for teachers · 28 April 2022

NEW Live Lessons Schedule Announced for May Revision Period

Tassomai will be extending our series of Live Lessons to run throughout the May revision period! Find out more about the new sessions here…

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News, Tips for teachers · 9 November 2021

Tassomai Roundtable: Challenges, tensions and opportunities in English literature teaching

Our most recent online round table discussion led to the publication of a free downloadable report with valuable insights from English literature teachers, school leaders and English literature education organisations about the future of English teaching.

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News, Tips for teachers, Tips for parents · 15 September 2021

Introducing the GCSE Survival Guide - practical advice for parents of Y9-11s

The Tassomai team has put together a free guide for parents and a series of blogs with advice from subject specialists , education experts and mental health campaigners.

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News · 21 May 2021

Tassomai are Education Resource Awards 2021 winners!

The Tassomai team are thrilled to be winners of 2 awards at this year’s ERAs! Tassomai was recognised with a win for its innovative content collaboration with the team at Torquay Academy and also named supplier of the year !

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News, Tips for teachers · 9 March 2021

Tassomai Round table: Edtech in science education - building back better in a post pandemic world

Our online round table discussion led to the publication of a free downloadable report with valuable insights from science teachers, school leaders and science education organisations.

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News, Tips for teachers · 27 November 2020

This Christmas we are turning virtual trees into real trees!

Tassomai is sponsoring the protection of approximately 750 newly planted trees and giving schools the chance to win real trees to plant in their grounds or gift to students to recognise exceptional use of Tassomai.

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News · 7 September 2020

Creator of online learning app offering free catch-up tuition sessions to users

A press release from Tassomai about our founder Murray offering free catch-up tuition sessions to users throughout September.

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Tips for teachers, News · 28 August 2020

New Diagnostic Snapshot tool

Tassomai and Pearson have developed a Digital Snapshot tool for the Pearson Edexcel GCSE Science specifications, to help teachers plan necessary reteaching and laser-target their interventions.

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Tips for parents, News, Tips for students · 19 August 2020

The Tree for parents and students!

The Tree is an exciting feature that lets students watch their knowledge and understanding grow as they answer questions on Tassomai, and parents can see it too! Learn more and read FAQs about the Tree.

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News · 10 June 2020

How Tassomai’s new English literature program is highlighting the importance of diversity

Amid calls for the National Curriculum to be updated and diversified, our team is hard at work creating questions for a range of brilliant books, plays and poems , which we hope will inspire schools to offer more texts by BAME authors.

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News · 6 April 2020

Tassomai's ONE-BILLIONTH question!

We are fast approaching 1 BILLION quiz questions answered on Tassomai. Our founder Murray reflects on this milestone.

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