We exist to improve lives and because our work impacts over 2.2 million students, we take our responsibilities seriously. We create systems that support students, teachers, and school leadership to improve educational outcomes.
Sparx Learning provides maths, reading and science solutions to over half of UK schools, supporting students aged 11–16 across several large international school groups and many individual schools worldwide.
We’re proud to be a certified B-Corp. For our team, it reflects the way we work: with purpose, integrity, and a strong focus on making a difference.
Every subject is different, so each Sparx system is carefully researched and designed to maximise impact in that discipline. However, everything we create shares the following underlying principles:
High-impact pedagogy (the method and practice of teaching) - Quality pedagogy enables powerful learning. We thoroughly research, design and test all of our systems to ensure they enable high-quality and impactful learning.
Ambitious but achievable goals - High expectations can lead to higher outcomes. We want all students to experience success and strive to be the best they can be so we always set a high and clear standard of 100% completion for all students, and we provide the necessary support that teachers and students need to achieve this.
World-class content design - Exceptional content drives genuine learning. Our team of subject-specific content designers use years of experience and billions of data points to create world-class content that prompts deep thinking and provides a balance of challenge and support for all learners.
Support personalised to a school's context - Teachers and school leaders are supported throughout their whole Sparx journey by our School Success Team (who are themselves ex-teachers and school leaders). Working with their dedicated coach, schools experience a smooth implementation and impactful continued usage of Sparx systems. We provide the highest quality service to all our schools, treating them with compassion and respect to support them towards their goals.
Behavioural insights - We embed carefully thought-through techniques into all Sparx systems to reduce hassle and encourage high-impact behaviours. These include; sensible time-saving defaults for teachers, simple, clear expectations and messaging, student rewards that promote habit-forming behaviour, and parent communication that supports the learning process at home.
Whole school approach - We don’t design tools to be deployed infrequently, for a small number of classes, or by a teacher in isolation. We design systems that enable efficient and effective whole-school impact. As part of this, we always establish a continuous and collaborative relationship with senior leaders in all schools we support.
Supports teacher workload - Teachers’ time is precious! We carefully design our systems, to reduce unneeded teacher workload whilst critically ensuring that student learning is high-quality.
Community - We invest in establishing communities within and across our schools so teachers, school leaders and Multi-Academy Trust leaders can learn from and be inspired by each other.
