What is Bug Club?
Bug Club is a reading program to help you develop confident and motivated readers. It combines over 500 finely levelled books with interactive eBooks and an online reading world – so you can allocate books to individual pupils for home reading and assess their progress instantly.
What's in Bug Club? Everything you need to inspire a generation of readers from Reception to KS2 Bug Club is shown to deliver 30 months of progress in reading in just 18 months whilst developing a love of reading.
Flexible packages including an engaging online reading world capture your children’s imagination and support all the crucial components of becoming a lifelong reader. From decoding words to developing fluency every step is supported with comprehensive planning, teaching and assessment tools.
Educational Impact
| Business Name: Pearson HQ Location: United Kingdom Founded: 2010 | |
| 0-4, 5-7, 8-10 | |
| Online Pupil WorldReading For PleasurePhonicsIndependent ReadingGuided ReadingShared ReadingEbooksAllocatable EbooksTeacher PlanningProgress Reporting | |
| English | |
| Moderate features | |
Bug Club can be accessed on the majority of digital devices, a good WiFi speed and connection is recommended for optimum performance. | |
It only takes a short time to set your pupils up on ActiveLearn and get started using Bug Club. | |
We provide PDF documentation, short YouTube video tutorials, step-by-step guidance from our website and within the platform. There are also webinars you can attend or Professional Development Courses available through our new PD Academy. | |
For any support or technical queries please visit the Bug Club website. | |
School must create the account. We don't currently offer parent subscriptions to Bug Club; however, a range of print titles are available to complement online learning through Amazon. | |
AIAI usage The Bug Club team has not stated whether it uses AI. | |
Bug Club PricingPricing Plans Free TrialPaid Subscription Bug Club pricing starts from £57.25 / year Prices are annual and determined by school size. We also offer a discount to any small schools or English Hubs schools. | |
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Tiffany Muga Oyango Ndiao Migwambo Nyakidodo
Teacher
Used Bug Club weekly for 0-3 months
Jun 2025
I like bug club so much
Tiffany Muga Oyango Ndiao Migwambo Nyakidodo found Bug Club:
- Builds student knowledge“revising”
- Improves attainment
- Improves teacher knowledge“getting composition”
- Reduces attainment gap
- Reduces teacher workload

