What is Learning Ladders?
Learning Ladders provides assessment that goes way beyond tracking to effectively support teaching and learning for EYFS, Primary, and Secondary settings. Curriculum management tools support SLT with whichever curricula they use, in any language.
Data analysis for school leaders incorporates formative assessment, summative assessment, and GL assessments to give a well-rounded picture of every child alongside whole school and vulnerable group summaries.
A wealth of high-quality resources are linked to objectives, including from BBC Bitesize, Developing Experts, and Oak National Academy, giving teachers everything they need for lesson planning. Self-marking homework saves teacher workload and contributes towards the personal learning journey for every pupil.
Parental engagement is enhanced through the Parent Portal with teacher-written articles across the core curriculum to further support learning past the classroom. The child is at the centre with Learning Ladders, with all stakeholders involved and supported to facilitate meaningful conversations around learning.
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 Company | Business Name: Learning Ladders Education Ltd HQ Location: United Kingdom Founded: 2014 |
| Age Range | 0-4, 5-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-16 |
 Features | Early YearsEnd Of Term/year ReportsResourcesHomework SharingParental EngagementInstant MessagingAssessmentsBespoke CurriculumTrackingGl Assessments |
 Languages | Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish |
 Accessibility | Robust features |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy Policy |
 Requirements | Internet - Low BandwidthInternet - High BandwidthDesktop - MacDesktop - WindowsDesktop - ChromebookMobile - iPhoneMobile - iPad |
 Set Up | At Learning Ladders we pride ourselves on our Customer Support. Your site can be created within 48 hours and ready for you to adapt. Within a 2 week period, we will assist in uploading your curriculum or using one in our Ladder Bank, help change your milestones and expectations to match your Assessment Policy and connect with your MIS system or load your students, teachers and parents via a CSV file. |
 Training | In PersonLive OnlineWebinarsDocumentationVideos We offer free training once you have joined the Learning Ladders family. Every week your team are able to join our drop-in sessions and on a monthly basis a 'New User Webinar' plus specific live training which are all recorded and sent to all the teachers using our platform. We do the training to free your team to teach. |
 Support | EmailFAQs/ForumKnowledge BasePhone Support |
| Home Learning | Parent Access School must create the account.
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 Tags | Parental engagementresourcestrackingassessmentcurriculum managementStudent Engagementparent communicationsGL Assessmentsteaching & LearningHomeworkRemote learning |
Learning Ladders PricingPricing Plans Free VersionPaid Subscription We have a modular system and our pricing reflects that. Please contact us for a quote. If you’re switching from another system we guarantee to match what you’re currently paying for our most similar modules.  Optimised for a quick response | |
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Learning Ladders Reviews
from 24 Verified Reviews
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Noma Theba
KS1 Head of Department
Used Learning Ladders daily for 0–3 months
Jan 2022
The quick response service and the training we received from the organization.
Noma Theba found Learning Ladders:
- Significantly saves school money“We are able to manage our data more systematically .”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“The Progress of an individual student and group of student is monitored periodically.”
- Significantly improves attainment“The learning journey shows an excellent example of attainment of a student.”
Elizabeth
Assistant Head
Used Learning Ladders weekly for 0–3 months
Nov 2021
Very helpful staff who personalise the system for our needs, very user-friendly, lots of helpful features
Elizabeth found Learning Ladders:
- Moderately saves school money“In terms of staff time in terms of evidencing progress”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“We are still in the early days of using it but the different features will help us identify pupils falling behind more effectively.”
- Slightly improves attainment“Still too new to measure this”
Zahra Muddassir
Personal Assistant to the Principal
Used Learning Ladders daily for 3-4 years
Nov 2021
Information easily available and user friendly
Zahra Muddassir found Learning Ladders:
- Moderately saves school money“Quality system saves time and money by reducing multiple platform purchases”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap“N/A not my remit”
- Slightly improves attainment“N/A not my remit”
Carl Davidson
Assistant Head of Primary
Used Learning Ladders for 7–12 months
Jun 2021
The system is always improving and the LL staff are responsive to suggestions and requests for changes. There is a good support system with enquiries answered quickly. The Helpdesk is a brilliant resource.
Carl Davidson found Learning Ladders:
- Moderately improves attainment“The system makes it very easy to see prior learning and assessments so lessons can be pitched accordingly for each child, ensuring there is appropriate challenge for all.”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“The presentation of the data makes it clear to see the differences between groups in a class and also between each of the classes in the school. This helps to develop class and whole school focuses to address gaps in understanding.”
- Slightly saves school money
Jenny Evans
Deputy Principal
Used Learning Ladders for 1-2 years
Feb 2021
Learning Ladders does all we dreamt of and more. The team are responsive and have tailored the product to suit our setting.
Jenny Evans found Learning Ladders:
- Significantly improves attainment“By tracking progress in a granular way, we are able to intervene earlier for students who are not yet making the progress expected. This, in turn, enables students to attain higher than ever before.”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“By identifying children at risk of not exceeding potential very early on and personalizing learning and pathways for these children without waiting for the moment to pass.”
- Significantly saves school money“An affordable product that adds significant value to all we do at RDS.”
Natalie Kaye-Aspinall
Assistant Principal
Used Learning Ladders for 1-2 years
Feb 2021
Learning Ladders is a really user friendly system and has lots of great features. The developers always listen to customer feedback and are working on improving the platform further so that it meets the needs of individual schools.
Natalie Kaye-Aspinall found Learning Ladders:
- Significantly improves attainment“Learning Ladders allows teachers to accurately plot the learning objectives that the children have achieved, and to which level. Teachers are then able to identify next steps for the children's learning to ensure they achieve their potential.”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Learning Ladders has the ability to extract a Gap Analysis report for a class/group linked to a specific subject area. This is an excellent tool for Assessment for Learning.”
- Slightly saves school money“Learning Ladders replaced our previous assessment system and does offer good value for money.”
Dec 2020
A great user friendly system with outstanding customer support.
Victoria Richmond found Learning Ladders:
- Significantly improves attainment“Clear analysis of assessment and resources to identify specific areas for both staff and parents.”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“By offering clear analysis and next steps”
- Significantly saves school money“Not printing reports, communicating with parents and setting homework digitally.”
Gill McGuigan
Headteacher
Used Learning Ladders for 6 months
Nov 2020
The support from Stella and from Tom has been great. No question is too small and they are always quick to respond to emails.
Gill McGuigan found Learning Ladders:
- Moderately improves attainment“Teachers are able to identify targets easily and fill the gaps”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Targeting of key areas means children make progress more quickly”
- Significantly saves school money“We do not need to print reports needlessly”
Rachael Wilding
Acting Principal
Used Learning Ladders for Coming up to 2 years
Sep 2020
Learning ladders is the most user friendly data platform I have ever used and this is the general feeling amongst all the school staff. Between us we have used practically every software out there! LEarning ladders offers support, CPD as part of the package, they build a community network so we can inturn support each other. The platform is user-friendly but provides accurate and clear data for teachers, leadership and school owners. its a 5 star, 10/10 product that any school should seriously consider investing in.
Rachael Wilding found Learning Ladders:
- Significantly improves attainment“Teachers are able to see user friendly data about any given child, Learning Ladders supports them to ensure accurate coverage. Enalbing them to plan support and challenge.”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“The formats and reports Learning Ladders have on the portal supported the improvement of our attainment gap. Over all subject reports, class and individual child pages as well as the parent portal that is linked to the teachers data all combined have supported us in a rapid increase in attainment.”
- Slightly saves school money
Sep 2020
An excellent resources and a fantastic team who are always at the end of the phone.
Steven Deanus found Learning Ladders:
- Significantly improves attainment“Keeping a constant track of all pupils”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap
- Significantly saves school money“Collates all the data and present this information to all stakeholders”
Jeni Dellman
Head of Primary School
Used Learning Ladders for Over 3 years
Aug 2020
We have been using Learning Ladders for a number of years now. As our needs have developed, the team at Learning Ladders have always listened, responded and improved their provision. They really do go above and beyond to ensure that we are able to make the system work for us. The fact that we can customise the objectives and build the curriculum base makes this entirely bespoke to our students. It was however, incredibly helpful when we first started out that there were banks of curriculum objectives available so that we did not start with a blank page. The development of the analysis tools has supported our teachers as they build the content of their lessons and ensure full curriculum coverage across year groups. Finally, we have been very happy with the Parent portal: Ladders at Home. We introduced it 2 years ago, and it has slowly grown in use within the parent community. When we moved to online learning in March this was something we were able to share again with our parents as an additional way to help and support at home. Being an international school, the translation tool has been incredibly well received.
Jeni Dellman found Learning Ladders:
- Significantly improves attainment“By using Learning Ladders consistently across all year groups, we are able to assess individual and group attainment: more importantly, we are able to look at that attainment and identify next steps and areas of focus.”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Using the Gap analysis tool, and through student progress meetings to look at each student, the teachers are able to ensure that they deliver the highest quality of education designed to both support and challenge.”
- Slightly saves school money
Beth Budden
Pedagogy Development Leader/ SLT/Teacher
Used Learning Ladders for 7 seven years
Aug 2020
Learning Ladders is not like other 'off the peg' systems, although if schools need something like that it can be that too, if they need a well structured starting point. However, schools can adapt it to their curriculum for all subjects if they chose to. Schools can decide on their assessment approach and really 'measure what they value,' rather than simply 'value what they measure'. In this way, Learning Ladders allows for 'decision driven data,' instead of 'data driven decisions'; schools can decide on their own curriculum, how they want to assess this and make this work for their children and context. In addition, Learning Ladders supports a mastery curriculum, which is been proven to lead to better outcomes for all children.
Beth Budden found Learning Ladders:
- Significantly improves attainment“Learning Ladders enables teachers to identify gaps in attainment and to plan for curricular progression, as well as SLT to oversee this and over support where necessary.”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“The granular detail Learning Ladders allows for individual pupils, classes and cohorts means that next steps can be identified easily and interventions, like precision teaching, or wider curricular catch up can be planned for. It also allows teaching staff to make notes and add examples for each criteria where necessary to support moderation of outcomes.”
- Moderately saves school money“Learning Ladders drastically cuts down on paper use for record keeping and pupils reporting, but importantly, it is much better value for money than many of the other curriculum-assessment systems and does a better job.”
Craig Evans
Head of Assessment
Used Learning Ladders for 6 months
Aug 2020
Simply outstanding. Learning Ladders has enhanced our assessments and empowered our teachers to clearly focus on areas of strength and development. Teacher workload has reduced as the system provides them with everything they need to plan carefully differentiated and personalised lessons. Not only does Learning Ladders provide excellent analytical and tracking tools, the training and support on offer really stand out. From day 1, the team have been readily available to support us every step of the way. This has ensured the system has been introduced successfully into our school and means it continues to be successful every single day! A huge thank you from everyone at Alpha!
Craig Evans found Learning Ladders:
- Significantly improves attainment“Learning Ladders provides our teachers with a clear understanding of each child’s areas of strengths and development. The GAP Analysis tool enables our teachers to carefully modify the curriculum so all children have secure foundations in place. Our interventions are now targeted to ensure they focus on the specific areas the children need to develop. This has enhanced the attainment and progress of all groups of children and most impressively, means we have a clear understanding of how our more able achievers can be pushed to even greater depths. A great assessment tool for all attainment levels!”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Learning Ladders has enabled us to identify the areas that children need to develop so interventions and SENCO sessions can be targeted. This has enabled us to close the gap and push our children even further they we could have imagined. The progress of all children has been accelerated!”
- Significantly saves school money“Learning Ladders is excellent value for money! The tools within the system and the support and training we have received since we joined Learning Ladders have been amazing. The system has everything we need and more. A fantastic investment that has had outstanding results on attainment and progress.”
Craig Evans
Deputy Head of Primary
Used Learning Ladders for 6 months
Aug 2020
Learning Ladders have been simply amazing. It has transformed assessment and curriculum modification across our school. Progress has never been so good! The team have supported us every step of the way so the system works to our requirements. They are always available to answer any queries and have provided outstanding training and support for all stakeholders. The system offers tools that no other system can. The parent report tool will provide our parent community with vital information and support on how they can further help their children succeed. The tools to analyse external data against our internal data gives us a clear picture of our school and our areas of development, meaning we have every tool required at our disposal.
Craig Evans found Learning Ladders:
- Significantly improves attainment“Learning Ladders has helped us to identify both areas of strength and development of individual children, meaning we can target all attainment levels and ensure secure foundations are developed. This has enabled accelerated progress across the curriculum and allowed us to posh our higher acuehvers to new depths”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Learning Ladders has helped us to clearly identify areas of strength and development in our children’s learning. From this, we have been able to personalise the learning journey, enhancing the progress of all children! Our higher achievers have reached greater depths because of the faboulous and easy to use tools”
- Significantly saves school money“Learning Ladders has helped us to identify key areas of strength and development of individual children. This has enabled us to personalise the learning journey and set clear and specific targets, enabling all children to make accelerated progress. The GAP Analysis tool has enhanced our curriculum modification, supporting all teachers and our SEN department.”
Jun 2019
The simplicity and adaptability of Learning Ladders allows us to personalise its use to effectively meet the needs of our pupils.
Alex Golden found Learning Ladders:
- Significantly improves attainment“Learning Ladders is used as the centrepiece of Pupil Progress meetings in which staff are held to account for progress. It also informs targetted planning to address areas for development.”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“Pupil progress meetings focus on the attainment gap and support teachers to target their support.”
- Moderately saves school money“Learning Ladders is less expensive than the competitor's software used beforehand.”
Jun 2019
Diana found Learning Ladders:
- Significantly improves attainment
- Significantly reduces attainment gap
- Significantly saves school money
Stephen Mitchell
Deputy Headteacher
Used Learning Ladders for Around 4 years
Jun 2019
Easy to use, friendly staff and support teams, effective system, easy to personalise, always updating itself to reflect best/new practice. It is easy to see combined too - something many other systems are not able to do...
Stephen Mitchell found Learning Ladders:
- Significantly improves attainment“Easy to identify vulnerable groups of children through the use of insights. It's a great tool for reporting to SLT and governors.”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Pupil premium children are making accelerated progress due to us being able to clearly identify gaps in their learning from previous year groups.”
- Significantly saves school money“Collaborative approach to Beth Budden being used! Great system in return for some high level knowledge and skills of an outstanding practitioner. ”
Beth Budden
Head of KS1/Pedagogy Development Leader
Used Learning Ladders for 5 years
Jun 2019
It fulfills all our needs for a robust and effective assessment cycle that supports learners, as well as teachers (in their planning for assessment and learning).
Beth Budden found Learning Ladders:
- Significantly improves attainment“Understands gaps in learning through gaps analysis tool and then granular understanding of next steps through ladders.”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Using gap analysis to target historic gaps in learning.”
- Moderately saves school money“Better use of intervention times as gaps are targeted. Less printing of documentation as much is online.”
Andy
Vice Principal
Used Learning Ladders for 12 months
Jun 2019
Learning Ladders targets the children, supports the teachers knowledge and allows parents access to the data for their child to allow better home-school communication.
Andy found Learning Ladders:
- Significantly improves attainment“Our students are all 2nd language learners and achieve broadly in line now, bit at the a start of the year were almost all below. This is as work is more tailored to the child's need which is clear through Learning Ladders data”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“In particular our SEN now use PKS targets and have made huge progress as the teachers can work on the skills they need much more now. This has narrowed the gap.”
- Significantly saves school money“Resources are now more accurately deployed, TA's used more effectively and so not so many needed and independence is more key as the work is targeted better so reducing worksheet usage.”
Samantha Horwood
Year Leader
Used Learning Ladders for 2 years 3 months
Jun 2019
Learning Ladders is very user friendly. It is easy to navigate and create purposeful data.
Samantha Horwood found Learning Ladders:
- Significantly improves attainment“I often use the gap analysis tool to personalise learning”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“The parent portal has had a positive effect engaging with parents and creating a personalised learning journey”
- Significantly saves school money“As I can access Learning Ladders on both PC and tablet, this has reduced the need for printing documents.”
Toni Birchall
Deputy Head Primary
Used Learning Ladders for 2 years and 3 months
Jun 2019
It has had positive benefits across the school.
Toni Birchall found Learning Ladders:
- Significantly improves attainment“Helps identify targets for personalised learning.”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“The parent view helps dialogue between home and school.”
- Significantly saves school money“We are not printing as we can access on several devices. Also saves on formal assessments.”
Leanne Fridd
Headteacher
Used Learning Ladders for 2 Years
Jun 2019
Very user friendly interface, personable company to work with, always looking at ways to improve their programme.
Leanne Fridd found Learning Ladders:
- Significantly improves attainment“Maths increased from acceptable to very good in two years. ”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Boys and girls achieving similar attainment levels in Mathematics and Writing. ”
- Slightly saves school money
Adam
Vice Principal
Used Learning Ladders for 4 Years
Jun 2019
The level of support, the educational direction of the product and the value for money makes it easy to highly recommend.
Adam found Learning Ladders:
- Significantly improves attainment“Enabling teachers to perform gap analysis to personalise learning.”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Being able to accurately track the gap provides opportunities to reduce it. Learning Ladders helps to identifying slow progress and promote intervention.”
- Significantly saves school money“Learning Ladders has been a more cost effective option over similar tracking systems.”
Jeni Dellman
Head of Primary School
Used Learning Ladders for 3 years
Jun 2019
The communication from Learning Ladders is excellent and the follow up and support is purposeful and useful.
Jeni Dellman found Learning Ladders:
- Significantly improves attainment“Increased ability to personalise targets through the use of Gap Analysis”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Targeted cohort information which allows for specific interventions to be put in place”
- Significantly saves school money“One system which allows us to communicate with the parents as well as focus on individual student attainment”
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