What is Jigsaw?
We believe that all children deserve to grow up happy and healthy, with the life skills to understand themselves and the world around them and be prepared for the opportunities and challenges of adult life.
As a result, the reason we exist and everything we do is about helping schools with the whole-child development of their students - by taking a whole-school approach to our programmes
The way we do that is by providing comprehensive PSHE and RE programmes and resources online for schools, with expert training and support so that teachers are prepared and confident to deliver these difficult to teach topics to their students.
We are the market leader with a team of educators, subject experts and independent advisors developing and maintaining all our programmes, trusted by over 9,500 schools in the UK and internationally.
Jigsaw Education is built and maintained by a passionate group of individuals, each bringing a wealth of experience from around the world.
With over 200 years of combined experience, everyone at Jigsaw loves the impact they are making and are passionate about using their skills to create a better outcome for children, young people and educators.
All members of the Jigsaw Education team provide an impactful contribution to those around them, collaborating to ensure Jigsaw goes above and beyond.
Recommended Usage
We recommend embedding the spiral curriculum as a whole school approach with 45-60 minute lessons taught weekly to gain maximum value and impact.
Educational Impact
Awards
The EdTech Impact Awards are based on independent, verified customer feedback, and recognise the top 10 solutions across each of our 13 impact metrics.
Top Student Knowledge Tool
2025
Top Student Wellbeing Tool
2025
Top Teacher Workload-reducing Tool
2025
Top Teacher Knowledge Tool
2025
 Company | Business Name: Jigsaw Education Group HQ Location: United Kingdom Founded: 2013 |
| Age Range | 0-4, 5-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-16 |
 Features | Pupil VoiceAssess ProgressBuild KnowledgeImprove WellbeingWhole School ApproachSupport WellbeingTeacher CpdSchool SupportDevelop Social And Emotional Skills |
 Languages | English, Welsh |
 Accessibility | Moderate features |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy Policy |
 Requirements | Internet - Low BandwidthInternet - High BandwidthDesktop - MacDesktop - WindowsDesktop - ChromebookDesktop - LinuxMobile - iPhoneMobile - iPadMobile - WindowsMobile - Android |
 Set Up | Immediate set up and start |
 Training | Live OnlineWebinarsDocumentationVideos We offer recorded onboarding training initially with live online or phone support as needed. Any questions or specialist support is available from our expert mentors. There is a wide range of recorded and live CPD included in the subscription alongside the ability to purchase tailored training packages for specific school needs. |
 Support | EmailFAQs/ForumPhone Support The school support team are available all year around between 8am-5pm, Mon-Fri. |
| Home Learning | Parent Access School must create the account. Parents are able to access the materials to support schools with informing and consulting with them in-line with RSHE guidance. |
 Tags | PSHEMindfulnessREPSERVEWellbeingPersonal developmentSEL |
Jigsaw PricingPricing Plans Free TrialPaid Subscription Jigsaw pricing starts from £495 / year Prices depend on the product purchased and number of pupils in the school  Optimised for a quick response | |
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Jigsaw Reviews
from 18 Verified Reviews
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Nov 2024
Tor Archer found Jigsaw:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Less planning, key words explained”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“Lessons kept up to date”
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing“Helps children to reflect. We really like the mindfulness”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Building on from previous lesson. Scaffolded learning”
Sharon Jones
Deputy SENDCo
Used Jigsaw daily for 1-2 years
Nov 2024
Jigsaw Games has made a huge impact on childrens lunchtime behaviour. The children really enjoyed attending. When there is no adult to supervise the older children take charge, it a really lovely, safe environment.
Sharon Jones found Jigsaw:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“We use Jigsaw Games as a lunchtime provision and we have noticed less children being involved in incidents and come back into the classroom ready for learning.”
- Moderately improves teacher knowledge
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing“Children who attend Jigsaw Games are significantly better at team games and enjoying being part of this additional provision. Parent/s have also commented (parent words - 'I also hear positive things about Jigsaw Games and it is great to know that during free time the children are choosing to participate in active, inclusive play')”
- Moderately builds student knowledge
Nov 2024
L found Jigsaw:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Nov 2024
We love Jigsaw at The Mease! It aligns with our curriculum ambition of 'establishing the conditions', ensuring we are teaching the children skills for life to enable them to manage relationships, health and their emotions.
Julia Hart found Jigsaw:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Confidence in scheme”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“Aligns with national curriculum requirements”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Focus on wellbeing throughout scheme, eg, each lesson begins with 'calm time'”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Focus on developing children's emotional literacy progressively throughout all year groups”
Nov 2024
Jigsaw is the golden thread in our school that supports our Health and wellbeing offer. We could not function as a school without our Mondays starting with Jigsaw. Th programme is quality assured and relevant to all that we teach in Wales.
Dawn Robertson found Jigsaw:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“With the recent changes and links to the new Curriculum for Wales and RSE code, Jigsaw has been significant in supporting our staff in the delivery of the AoLE for Health and Wellbeing. Jigsaw has enabled the staff to deliver a consistent approach and very much a progressive skills based learning experiences for our children. The mapping document links a variety of other AoLE's especially Oracy. We have been able to upload the mapping documents against our spirals.”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“The themes across the year support our curriculum offer. The children are using the sessions to understand behaviours, including themes of bullying, on-line and Relationships.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Nov 2024
Amy found Jigsaw:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Hayley Allen
SMSC Leader EYFS Lead
Used Jigsaw weekly for 5 years+
Nov 2024
Jigsaw is a whole school approach and with it being an online resource, this means it is constantly being refreshed and is updated with current guidance and legislation. Having used different schemes within the past and also having written our own, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend the programme to colleagues. Our staff feel supported and confident teaching PSHE and more recently RE and the pupils greatly benefit from not only the lesson content but it also positively impacts their health, behaviour and relationships.
Hayley Allen found Jigsaw:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“With the scheme of work having individual lesson plans, resources and built in assessment opportunities, this significantly reduces planning time and resourcing. The slides are helpful and also editable for teachers to adapt and personalise to their own school's needs.”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“Both for the subject leader and also staff who are teaching PSHE and RE, there are opportunities for training on the portal. The key documents are invaluable for staff to have a greater understanding of key areas such as RSHE, mental health etc. With RE there are really helpful background information sheets to support teachers' subject knowledge.”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Our school have recently been inspected as part of the Inclusion Quality Mark award which stated that 'the school is right to take great pride in the children's spiritual, moral, cultural, personal, social and emotional development.' Jigsaw Education is referenced and it notes that our school's 'personal and character development are exemplary', with Jigsaw being a key strand of this work within our school. The benefits of the 'Calm Me' time cannot be underestimated with the children learning techniques to calm their minds and relax their bodies. This supports the teaching of mindfulness along with the lesson content and Pause Points.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Our children from EYFS to Year 6 are able to use the taught key vocabulary from the programme. As Jigsaw has progressive and spiral core programmes with linked assemblies, it means that the each year group builds on learning from the previous years. All the materials are age and stage appropriate and children are able to talk confidently about their learning as they move through the school.”
Nov 2024
Jigsaw is an excellent resource that is very well planned and thought out and very easy to use. The mapping documents are excellent and saves an enormous amount of teacher preparation time. The support you receive is outstanding.
S James found Jigsaw:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Resources such as lesson plans, worksheets, PowerPoints etc. are provided. In addition, mapping documents, audit tools and policy templates are also available. This significantly reduces teacher workload.”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“Allows wider discussions with pupils. This is turn allows teachers to motivate and challenge ideas and opinions and overall helps them teach more effectively.”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“All Jigsaw lessons begin with mindfulness practice - this has a positive impact on behaviour and wellbeing and starts the lesson in a calm manner.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Lessons are thought provoking and relevant. Discussions result in pupils gaining new ideas, thoughts and approaches about and in different situations.”
Emily Brown
Teacher and PSHE Lead
Used Jigsaw weekly for 5 years+
Nov 2024
We love Jigsaw - there are some lessons that we improve as they are very similar but overall love it
Emily Brown found Jigsaw:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“you dont have to think of activities as it is all there”
- Moderately improves teacher knowledge“How important calm me time is”
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing“Children use the calm time strategy in difficult situations”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“they can talk about their emotions more”
Cerys Williams
ALNCo and Health and Wellbeing Lead
Used Jigsaw weekly for 1-2 years
Nov 2024
It supports staff knowledge and confidence, provides positive learning experiences for pupils, has allowed us to access Jigsaw Connects for one of our classes to collaborate with another school, ensure we achieve statutory requirement and have clear progression across year groups.
Cerys Williams found Jigsaw:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Lesson plans are already prepared with clear resources but allow for clear opportunities to personalise tasks and ensure they follow the school's teaching and learning policy.”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“Teachers at primary level are not specialists and require a lot of complex knowledge on a wide range of subjects. Often, PSE topics can be quite sensitive regarding their theme and their statutory requirements and Jigsaw ensures that lessons are age appropriate and support teachers knowledge and confidence with developing the subject.”
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing“Most learners enjoy the weekly lessons but an example of where the lessons have had a positive impact is with a Y6 pupil who shows high levels of disengagement with learning but will join in weekly Jigsaw with the rest of his cohort inside the classroom.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Nov 2024
A high quality resource that is in line with all current requirements from Ofsted and RE world. Reduces teacher work load and supports teacher subject knowledge. Pupils engaged and developing greater knowledge and empathy for our diverse world.
Nicola Archer found Jigsaw:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“A plug and play resource - Everything thing you need to deliver comprehensive lessons. Teacher script including key questions, slides activity sheets and assessment included.”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“Background information sheets for each enquiry. CPD webinars on each worldview and themes/updates from the RE world”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Use of the learning charter provides a clear expectations for behavior during the lessons and beyond”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Evidence from in class discussions, pupil voice and assessments.”
Theresa Demir
Deputy Headteacher
Used Jigsaw weekly for 3-4 years
Nov 2024
It is a thorough scheme that supports teachers to teach PSHE. The portal is well organised, easy to find and lots of resources available, e.g. knowledge and skill organisers, policies to use etc
Theresa Demir found Jigsaw:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Slides and plans already prepared”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“Lots of detail/ teacher notes to support”
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing“Discussions with children, as a resource for circle time”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Progressive curriculum”
Nov 2024
It is an in-depth, DFE approved program that is child friendly, easy to understand and delivers high quality resources for the children.
Lucy McKinley found Jigsaw:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Having the lesson plans and slides ready to go means staff spend less time planning, and more time being able to deliver the high quality teaching we aim to do. Knowing that the content is in line with the DFE, and updated to keep up to date with all the changes to RSE means that we are confident in what we are teaching. The assemblies are good to deliver to each key stage and help to introduce each puzzle piece.”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“As staff we have been able to learn what vocabulary is age appropriate, the progression of learning and how to introduce a concept in a child friendly way.”
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing“The children use the calm me breathing, the solve it together technique and also use the lessons learnt through Jigsaw to help them make decisions in their friendships and relationships.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“The spiral curriculum means that each year the children are able to build on their previous knowledge, as well as revisit it, so that they are constantly taking in the information and absorbing it until it becomes embedded.”
Nov 2024
I've used Jigsaw since it's launch and I've implemented it successfully into every school I've moved to.
Gilly Brookes found Jigsaw:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“The planning is all done, I have the confidence to know coverage is guaranteed and age appropriate.”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“The Jigsaw SRE is fabulous and improves teacher confidence.”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“A weekly check in with pupils is fabulous, I get to know them better through Jigsaw lessons. We practise Calm Me in lessons so they can feel how to calm themselves down for when they need it most.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Great links to the UN Rights of a Child.”
Nov 2024
A very good, comprehensive scheme that meets the requirements. Good lesson plans and has wonderful resources.
Letitia Powell found Jigsaw:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Lesson plans are made so the teacher has everything required to teach the lessons well. The scheme is planned well through a spiral approach and this takes the weight of teachers as they know the scheme meets the requirements.”
- Moderately improves teacher knowledge“Useful links provided and the lesson plans are detailed for teachers to teach confidently. Compared to previous PSHE schemes, teachers feel more confident in delivering the lessons.”
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing“Students enjoy the calm me aspect of the Jigsaw lessons. Some children use this strategy outside of the lessons.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“The scheme develops students' knowledge well in all areas of PSHE. Students can articulate more clearly and are confident in this area.”
Nov 2024
Jigsaw is embedded within our whole school culture.
Jane Newman found Jigsaw:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Planning and resources are pre prepared. All paperwork needed is provided and support for Ofsted inspections.”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Calm me time and we have incorporated Jigsaw into out behaviour rewards.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“It builds up sequentially so knowledge is retained.”
Nov 2024
When truly embedded across the whole school, impact is huge.
Claire Morgan found Jigsaw:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Resources are ready to use”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“Mindfulness”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Through the way children care for each other when there are difficulties”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Online safety”
Nov 2024
As a school we love jigsaw it fits perfectly into our curriculum. Throughout the school childrens knowledge and love for jigsaw has increased in each year group and pupil voice shows this
Daisy Secker found Jigsaw:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Lesson plans and resources are quick to be planned during a PPA session”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“Jigsaw plans go through in depth what is to be taught and gives opportunities and examples to share ideas and opinions with children”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“The chime and mindful pictures helps the classroom environment/ behaviour to be a lot calmer and settles the children very quickly”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Children are understanding how to view their classmates similarities and differences and are becoming more respectful in this area. The relationships and families unit”