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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

build student knowledge
100%
improve attainment
75%
reduce attainment gap
50%
CompanyBusiness Name: Pearson
HQ Location: United Kingdom
Founded: 2010
Age Range0-4, 5-7, 8-10
FeaturesOnline Pupil WorldReading For PleasurePhonicsIndependent ReadingGuided ReadingShared ReadingEbooksAllocatable EbooksTeacher PlanningProgress Reporting
LanguagesEnglish
AccessibilityModerate features
PoliciesTerms of ServicePrivacy Policy
RequirementsInternet - Low BandwidthInternet - High BandwidthDesktop - MacDesktop - WindowsDesktop - ChromebookDesktop - LinuxMobile - iPhoneMobile - iPadMobile - WindowsMobile - Android

Bug Club can be accessed on the majority of digital devices, a good WiFi speed and connection is recommended for optimum performance.

Set Up

It only takes a short time to set your pupils up on ActiveLearn and get started using Bug Club.

TrainingIn PersonLive OnlineWebinarsDocumentationVideos

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.

SupportEmailFAQs/ForumKnowledge BasePhone Support24/7 Live Rep

For any support or technical queries please visit the Bug Club website.

Home Learning

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.

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AI usage

The Bug Club team has not stated whether it uses AI.

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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

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The Ark Junior School - Kitengela, Kenya

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
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  • Improves attainment
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  • Reduces attainment gap
  • Reduces teacher workload
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