Learning Loft Editorial Team · Reviewed by qualified UK teachers

Less admin. Better insight. More time for teaching.

Learning Loft was built by UK teachers who were tired of spreadsheets, marking piles and Sunday evenings lost to admin. Every tool below exists because a classroom teacher said 'I need this to be faster.' Available to UK teachers and to British-curriculum teachers overseas (including international-school staff). Start a free Teacher Membership trial — cancel any time.

The four workload problems we hear most

  • Repetitive marking that produces the same feedback fifty times.
  • Assessment weeks that turn into evenings of spreadsheet transfer.
  • Oracy that everyone agrees matters but no one has a structured way to assess.
  • Five separate platforms that never talk to each other.

Learning Loft was built to answer those four things directly.

What you get with a teacher account

LoftTick — smart marking

Upload a class set of GCSE or Key Stage papers. LoftTick does the first-pass marking against the specification and mark scheme. You review, edit and approve — professional judgement stays with you, but the repetitive first pass is taken off the pile.

LoftTalk — oracy practice and assessment

Built around a structured four-strand oracy framework. Pupils rehearse, record and receive rubric-based feedback. Includes a GCSE Speaking & Listening assessment mode with PDF reports for the certificate.

LoftTest — quizzes and retrieval practice

Auto-generate or hand-build quizzes aligned to your topic. Run them as exit tickets, homework or low-stakes assessment. Question-level analysis appears immediately, so you know before the next lesson which topics need reteaching.

LoftTrack — assessment analytics

Pull assessment data in, and get question-level, topic-level and pupil-group analysis back — without a spreadsheet. Reports for parents generate in one click. You interpret the picture and decide the next teaching move; LoftTrack does the number-crunching.

LoftLibrary — reading

A growing library of decodable and age-appropriate books with built-in comprehension quizzes and a reading fluency check. Structured enough to evidence progress, engaging enough that pupils choose to read.

Free CPD and resources

Live webinars, downloadable planning templates, retrieval starters and a teacher-focused blog — all free, all written or delivered by serving UK teachers.

Bring it to your school

If you'd like Learning Loft for your whole department, year group or school, book a 30-minute school demo and we'll walk you through it with your own data samples. School licences start from £995 + VAT per year, priced by school size, with unlimited staff and pupil access. Many of our partner schools were started by a single teacher who advocated internally.

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Frequently asked questions

Is Learning Loft free for individual teachers?

You can start a free Teacher Membership trial to explore the platform, use free classroom resources and trial LoftTick smart marking on a limited number of pieces. Full unlimited access is included when your school takes a school licence (from £995 + VAT per year), or available individually on a Teacher Membership (£14.99/month, cancel any time).

How is this different from Twinkl or TES?

Twinkl and TES are libraries of static PDFs. Learning Loft is an interactive platform — pupils complete quizzes, oracy tasks, reading and low-stakes assessment inside it, and you get instant question-level analytics. It replaces the marking pile and the assessment spreadsheet, not the resource cupboard.

How much time will it actually save me?

It depends on your subject, class size and current workflow — but the goal of every tool is the same: take the repetitive first pass off your plate so you can spend more time on planning, teaching and feedback that only you can give. Teachers commonly report saving hours per week on marking with LoftTick and hours per assessment cycle with LoftTrack.

Will my school know if I use it?

If your school has a whole-school annual licence, your account is linked. If you sign up individually, your data is private to you until you choose to advocate internally — we provide a one-page 'bring us into my school' brief you can pass to your line manager or SLT.

Can teachers outside the UK subscribe?

Yes. British teachers overseas and teachers at British international schools regularly subscribe to Learning Loft. The Teacher Membership is billed in GBP and can be cancelled any time. (Whole-school and MAT annual licences are annual commitments — those terms apply to schools, not to individual teacher accounts.)

Can I use Learning Loft for CPD?

Yes — we run regular free CPD sessions on marking, oracy, retrieval practice and EYFS. Every session is led by a serving UK teacher and comes with a downloadable takeaway. Newsletter subscribers are notified first.

One connected platform

The Learning Loft ecosystem

Each app shares one login, one progress record and one pedagogy — so assessment, teaching and tutoring stay joined up.

  • Made by qualified UK teachers
  • National Curriculum aligned
  • Safeguarding-ready
  • GDPR compliant · UK-hosted
  • Built with UK schools and educators
  • Evidence-informed pedagogy

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