What is Classroom Secrets?
Classroom Secrets offers a choice of thousands of high-quality, affordable resources that children love and teachers trust.
Classroom Secrets features lesson plans, printable resources, educational animations, interactive games, full lessons and a wide range of resources for lessons that work for children from EYFS, KS1 and KS2.
Designed by teachers for teachers, all resources are extremely high-quality for use in the classroom and at home, helping you to improve your work/life balance.
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Jul 2023
It has good things to use to support lessons
Sara found Classroom Secrets:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Great differentiated reading comps”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“don't know”
- Does not significantly improve teacher wellbeing“no reason”
- Moderately improves attainment“Quality worksheets help children engage and understand well”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Good reading comps cover the skills needed”
Sarah Harrison
Reception class teacher
Used Classroom Secrets weekly for 7–12 months
Jul 2022
Right now I only use one section Phonics Factory which is good, but I know there is more for me to discover. Once I have done this and use it on a wider basis I think my score may be higher.
Sarah Harrison found Classroom Secrets:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“Good collection of videos to support my teaching of phonics”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“good to have all the resources at the click of a link”
- Does not significantly improve teacher wellbeing
- Slightly improves attainment
- Slightly builds student knowledge“correct enunciation of letter sounds”
Jessen
Maths Leader
Used Classroom Secrets daily for 4-6 months
Jun 2022
Too many worksheets
Jessen found Classroom Secrets:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“PPT and differentiated activities”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Using key vocab, step by step and well sequenced delivery”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“Workload is reduced”
- Slightly improves attainment“N/A”
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Janet
Teacher and PYP Coordinator
Used Classroom Secrets weekly for 7–12 months
Jun 2022
I have already suggested we purchase as a school
Janet found Classroom Secrets:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“differentiation of activities”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“differentiation”
- Moderately improves teacher wellbeing“reduces time spent looking for suitable activities”
- Slightly improves attainment“can challenge more able students”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“improved reading levels”
Piedad Martinez
Housewife
Used Classroom Secrets weekly for 7–12 months
Mar 2022
Definitely better than a lot of others I have tried and are way more complicated.
Piedad Martinez found Classroom Secrets:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“I'm a parent but it helps me to find exactly what my children need to practice quickly with just the exact amount of work for their ages.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Being a parent, I don't know how to teach, so the lessons are so exactly what my children need.”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“I have more time for me.”
- Significantly improves attainment“My children are improving very much at school”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Improving their learning en English and Maths.”
Janet
PYP Coordinator & PY6 Teacher
Used Classroom Secrets monthly for 4-6 months
Mar 2022
I can always find something useful on Classroom secrets
Janet found Classroom Secrets:
- Does not significantly reduce teacher workload“I use the activities to differentiate”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Differentiation”
- Slightly improves teacher wellbeing“Relief at finding suitable activities”
- Moderately improves attainment“Again ability to differentiate”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“variety of activities on the same objective”
Mar 2022
Easy to use, helps ease teaching children at home
A Parent found Classroom Secrets:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing
- Significantly improves attainment
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Helps with home learning”
Mar 2022
it was great but since the updates it's unusable
Mr Teacher found Classroom Secrets:
- Does not reduce teacher workload“It used to be great to use but since they changed it the workload issue is even worse spending hours trying to find suitable resources to help my teaching”
- Does not improve teaching efficiency“If I try to use it takes me to long to find the resources I could use and then have to adapt as they don't match the requirements”
- Does not improve teacher wellbeing“causes stress trying to find resources”
- Does not improve attainment“if I tried to use it as it was my children would make little progress”
- Does not build student knowledge“it tries to do mastery before it helps with the basics. okay if you teach very bright children”
Mar 2022
The answers on the worksheets make them in usable sometimes.
Willie found Classroom Secrets:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“No need to make worksheets. I just wish the answers were not on the same pdf . We send the PDF’s, the. The answers are also visible.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Use the pdf in the lesson to explain sometimes”
- Slightly improves teacher wellbeing“No comment”
- Moderately improves attainment“If kids do the worksheets they obviously attain skills”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Sure, as they review the worksheets”
Mar 2022
Good quality resources but I preferred older style.
Frank found Classroom Secrets:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“The work is ready and matches the curriculum”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Good PowerPoint”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“Less planning”
- Moderately improves attainment“Deeper thinking question”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Deeper thinking”
Mar 2022
I find it very useful but some teachers prefer to use other methods.
Chris found Classroom Secrets:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“know immediately where to look for resources. PowerPoints save time not having to conststruct own resources”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“reduces stress of having to find the 'right' resource”
- Moderately improves attainment“significantly helps pupils to understand a concept. Interesting and relevant materials”
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Mar 2022
It is a resource which allows you to focus on responding to children's challenges within the classroom because of the range of resources available for each topic.
Vicky found Classroom Secrets:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“With the levelled examples already produced it means you do not have to produce as many resource examples.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“It allows me to focus more on responding to the children's needs because of the range of lessons and resources available.”
- Moderately improves teacher wellbeing“As planning can take less time, no longer looking for and creating all my own resources, it allows me time away from the computer.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Progress made by children in maths more than equivalent to increase in their age.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Mar 2022
Great resources, differentiated, pitched well
Tammy Whyte found Classroom Secrets:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“saving time”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“saving work time”
- Moderately improves attainment“pitch”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“structure of resources, e.g. varied fluency, reasoning and problem solving etc”
Mar 2022
Love using the resource - prefer the discussion tasks, recovery slides and video stories rather than the worksheet type resources
Gemma found Classroom Secrets:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“The discussion tasks are great prompts for investigations rather than searching online or creating something yourself.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“More time can be spent on assessing progress and adapting teaching to suit with the time saved from resource searching or creation”
- Moderately improves teacher wellbeing“Saves a little time!”
- Slightly improves attainment“It depends on how the teacher uses and adapts the resources. The use of them alone is not enough to improve attainment/progress rates”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Use of cross-unit themes and skills helps to consolidate”
Mar 2022
Find that other areas are not as well developed as maths and can be tricky to navigate around using the search, such as grammar and spelling.
Jane Grayling found Classroom Secrets:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Reduces time spent finding suitable fluency , reasoning and VP problem solving questions in maths.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Provides examples to use for modelling”
- Moderately improves teacher wellbeing“Saves time that can be spent on other things”
- Slightly improves attainment“N/A”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Gives a variety of questions that challenge the children’s mathematical knowledge”
Feb 2022
Resources are high quality and reliable. No real mistakes and no checking needs to take place. Allows for scaffolded learning and content all in one place for teaching and then learning.
Julie found Classroom Secrets:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Not having to prepare teaching content and preparing lots of resources for children. Many can be adapted to suit.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Children all completing the same type of task but at different scaffolded level. Children can be guided through the same teaching content and then move off to start working when necessary.”
- Moderately improves teacher wellbeing“Not staying at school too late and getting home earlier. Less prep time so can be done in PPA.”
- Slightly improves attainment“As we use CS alongside other resources from a variety of sources then it’s hard to pinpoint exactly but it can extend children and support when required.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“It improves children’s knowledge of maths areas in particular. Reference to same wording and type of content is consistent and familiar.”
Barney Brown
Assistant Headteacher
Used Classroom Secrets weekly for 0–3 months
Feb 2022
These resources are of very good quality and the site is competitively priced.
Barney Brown found Classroom Secrets:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Ready made sheets save time. The presentation materials for pupils are excellent and can be used in whole class teaching.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Easy to use interface with well organised categories make it easy to find resources.”
- Moderately improves teacher wellbeing“More time at the weekend.”
- Significantly improves attainment“High quality, age appropriate resources organised by curriculum objects. This helps ensure pupils are working at the right level and this is consistent across the school.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Well thought out resources that support teachers in their teaching and pupils with independent learning. The resources are structured to build on prior learning and increase to fluency and mastery.”
Feb 2022
Amazing company- Helped greatly as a teacher and the students love the Presentations and the worksheets.
Mary roynon found Classroom Secrets:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“It saves a lot of planning time, making Power points and hunting for worksheets to use. The differentiation is excellent. Saves many hours of hard work. the children love it.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Hours of time saved so more time for marking”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“time saved so a much better work/life balance”
- Significantly improves attainment“All my writer are improving in SPAG and are loving it!”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“I have the lowest English group and they are discussing types of clauses now- never been heard of before!”
Cecilia
Class Teacher
Used Classroom Secrets weekly for 1-2 years
Feb 2022
Cecilia found Classroom Secrets:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Differentiation”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Good examples”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“Save my time”
- Slightly improves attainment
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Step by step explanation”
Tricia
Class Teacher
Used Classroom Secrets weekly for 4-6 months
Feb 2022
I have already recommended it to a new teacher and an experienced teacher.
Tricia found Classroom Secrets:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Lesson PowerPoints, worksheets and assessments”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Creating worksheets”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“Peace of mind knowing that I can find resources easily”
- Significantly improves attainment“Worksheets are differentiated. Lessons model required objectives.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Lessons include use 9f manipulative and cover a wide range of topics”
Robyn Provett
Teacher
Used Classroom Secrets daily for 1-2 years
Feb 2022
The children respond very well to it and enjoy the routine. We do one slide at a time then one question at a time. It has dramatically reduced my workload. It makes sure reasoning and problems solving questions are covered and that children have the opportunity to work at greater depth in all areas.
Robyn Provett found Classroom Secrets:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Lessons broken down into small steps with developing, expected and greater depth worksheets. Lesson presentations are prepared and link to worksheets. Home tasks for each small step. Practical activity ideas and links to online games.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Greater depth work and reasoning and problems solving work for each small step.”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“Much less time planning lessons.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Stretches children. Plenty of resources to stretch children.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“The children progress very well using classroom secrets although I often have to use other resources to fill in each step if the children need further reinforcement.”
Feb 2022
The resources are good but searching is very difficult. There are no filters in search and you have to trawl through a lot of stuff to find what you want
Jenny Silvester found Classroom Secrets:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Good resources easy to plan”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“resources follow on well”
- Slightly improves teacher wellbeing“N/A”
- Moderately improves attainment“Pupils make good progress”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Good progression”
Feb 2022
Covers all curriculum, all objectives is differentiated but is quite worksheet based
Suzanne found Classroom Secrets:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Differentiated worksheets”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“PowerPoints”
- Does not significantly improve teacher wellbeing“No”
- Slightly improves attainment
- Moderately builds student knowledge
Feb 2022
It's a great resource but still to to do to make it more user friendly such as in kids classroom having filters to quickly locate resources instead of searching through multiple pages. Would be nice to have a submission date for work once you assign it. Search facility not great as it gives you resources that you didn't even search for.
Patrick found Classroom Secrets:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Less planning, ready made resources, differentiation already done and answers provided”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Planning already done, allows you to dip in and out of resources, pupils can self and peer mark, differentiation done”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“Planning done for you, work already differentiated, just print and use. Interactive slides already done.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Pupils at all levels can succeed and meet the learning intentions”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“They can rewatch the videos and continually improve. Play games over and over to succeed. Can do a quick prelesson assessment before starting main lesson.”
Jennifer Okonkwo
Class Teacher
Used Classroom Secrets weekly for 1-2 years
Feb 2022
The service is excellent. I just wish they covered more English and Science resources.
Jennifer Okonkwo found Classroom Secrets:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Assessment and powerpoint for lessons”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Saves time while giving quality resources.”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“Saves time on planning”
- Moderately improves attainment“You have differentiated task to meet learners needs”
- Moderately builds student knowledge