About Learning Loft
A UK education platform built by teachers — a message from our founders, Linda and Amy.
We're Linda and Amy — a mother–daughter team, two lifelong educators, two parents, and two people who spent years wishing the education world felt just a little bit more magical.
Between us, we've worked in nurseries, primary schools, secondary schools, alternative provision, leadership roles, trust-wide improvement and community learning. We've supported babies learning their first words, teenagers finding their voices, and adults training for their first roles in early years.
We've seen what works.
We've seen what doesn't.
And we've felt the exhaustion of systems designed without teachers, parents or children in mind.
So we built something different.
Something gentler.
Something joyful.
Something human.
Little Loft for the earliest years.
Learning Loft for nursery, primary, secondary and beyond.
A place where oracy, reading, games, wellbeing, CPD and real training live together — all with a sense of warmth, simplicity and purpose.
We created the platform we wish we'd always had:
- where children feel safe and excited to learn,
- where teachers feel supported,
- where parents feel connected,
- and where progress travels with every child, no matter where life takes them.
We are proud of what Learning Loft has become —
but even more excited about what it's growing into.
Thank you for joining us on this journey.
Whether you're a parent, teacher, practitioner, student, leader or learner —
you belong here.
With love,
Nanny Linda & Amy
What Learning Loft supports today
Learning Loft has grown beyond a set of teacher tools. It is now a UK education platform serving learners from the earliest years through to sixth form — and the schools, families and educators around them.
Schools and multi-academy trusts
Whole-school licences for marking, assessment, oracy, reading, QLA tracking and CPD — one platform, one price.
Teachers
Curriculum resources, smart marking and assessment insight — designed to cut workload, not add to it.
Parents and learners
Curriculum-aligned home learning, reading, revision and quiz apps for children from EYFS to GCSE.
Home education
A calm, structured platform that supports UK home educators through the whole curriculum.
1-to-1 tutoring
Online tutoring with qualified UK teachers, delivered live through LoftClass.
Little Loft nurseries
Nursery management, EYFS observations, funded hours, invoicing and parent communication for UK early years settings.
Consultancy and CPD
Bespoke school-improvement support and teacher CPD from experienced UK leaders.
Assessment and QLA
Question-level analysis, formative assessment and progress tracking that inform real classroom decisions.
Reading, oracy and phonics
LoftLibrary, LoftTalk and LoftSounds work together to build fluency, comprehension and spoken confidence.
Built by qualified UK teachers. Designed around real classroom problems. Focused on reducing workload, improving insight and supporting every learner.
Meet the Founders
Linda
'Nanny Linda'
Early Years Lead • Nursery Manager • EYFS Specialist • SEN Advocate • The Warm Heart of Little Loft
Yes — she is officially known as Nanny Linda now.
By children. By parents. By staff. And by every young adult who bumps into her years later.
Linda has spent her whole life shaping little humans, and it shows. She's the kind of practitioner who:
- can settle a crying toddler in under 30 seconds
- can turn a cardboard tube and a packet of pom poms into an Art Attack masterpiece
- remembers every child she has ever taught
- and gets stopped in Costa by 18-year-olds who say, "You taught me when I was three!"
She has been:
- a nursery lead with a heart of gold
- an EYFS guru who sees magic in the little moments
- a mentor to new staff and trainees
- a SEN and behaviour support anchor
- a calming guide for parents
- a rock for children who needed security most
Little Loft is built from her decades of love, craft, storytelling and early-years wisdom. If a resource feels especially warm, playful or thoughtful? Yes — it probably came from Nanny Linda.
Amy
'Mum (or… 'Bruh')'
Secondary English Teacher • Oracy Lead • School Improvement Advisor • The Bright Spark of Learning Loft
If Nanny Linda is the heart of Learning Loft, Amy is the spark.
She's the kind of teacher-leader who:
- can walk into a classroom and have every student speaking confidently
- turns even the quietest pupil into someone who believes their voice matters
- rewrites full schemes of work because "there's definitely a better way"
- leads trust-wide oracy with ambition, humour and vision
- is surviving life with two game-obsessed boys under 10 who call her "bruh"
(She's pretending she's fine about it.)
Those two boys are the unofficial chief testers behind LoftTopia. If a game is fast, addictive and ridiculously fun — you can thank them.
Amy is the creative engine behind:
- LoftTalk — the first oracy platform built by a real Oracy Lead
- LoftLibrary — a modern, calm reading and analysis space
- LoftTest — quick, teacher-friendly assessments
- LoftTrack — meaningful progress without overwhelm
- LoftTopia — the playful, wellbeing-centred world
Outside the classroom? Unapologetic sideline cheerleader on the football pitch. Too-enthusiastic shouting on Sunday mornings — sorry, not sorry.
If Learning Loft feels intuitive, warm, ambitious and built for real families and schools —that's Amy.
