Books we’ve built for schools.
A look at exercise books we’ve designed end-to-end — what the school asked for, the choices we made together, and how the finished book held up in the classroom.
Art & Design
Business Studies
CPD
Brandles — A staff CPD journal built around one repeating reflection spread
A bespoke 68-page CPD journal for Brandles School staff, opening with the PAC Model reference page and "Adult moves" prompts from Rethinking Education, and built around a single repeating two-page spread for every piece of professional development a teacher engages with, capturing overview, notes, key takeaways, next steps and impact.
Cardinal Newman — A CPD journal with the school's full Teaching and Learning Handbook baked into the front
A bespoke CPD journal for Cardinal Newman Catholic School staff, opening with the school's full Teaching and Learning Handbook — six pedagogical strands from Walkthrus, Rosenshine and others, plus a visual CPD timeline mapping the school's journey from 2015 to 2023 — and built around a single repeating two-page reflection spread for every piece of CPD a teacher engages with, capturing overview, notes, key takeaways, next steps and impact.
Co-op Academy Leeds — A CPD journal that turns nine teaching principles into a year of structured reflection
A bespoke staff CPD journal for Co-op Academy Leeds, built around the school's nine Teaching Principles and "Lesson Journey." Six repeating cycles of lesson reflection forms, course/book logs, and a termly development target page give every teacher a consistent structure for self-evaluation, coaching conversations, and tracking the impact of professional learning across the year.
Coundon Court — A CPD journal built around reading, reflection and feedback conversations
A bespoke CPD journal for Coundon Court, opening with the school's 1891 lion crest set against a bold geometric cover pattern. A pared-back internal structure pairs open Notes pages with three repeating reflection templates — Reading reflection, Actions, and Feedback discussion — giving teachers a consistent space to capture professional reading, translate it into classroom action, and record the conversations that come out of it.
Design & Technology
Ashby School — A Design & Technology workbook covering all five rotations in one book
A 68-page bespoke D&T workbook for Ashby School, printed in 2023 — one book covering Food Technology, Engineering, Product Design, Electronics and Textiles, with a teacher contact panel on the inside cover and the iterative design process running through the work.
Bentley Wood — A 68-page Food & Nutrition book built around a repeating dish-review spread
A bespoke 100-copy run of a 68-page Food & Nutrition book for a small select class at Bentley Wood, with the Eatwell plate, a full skills and techniques checklist, sensory evaluation vocabulary, and a repeating dish-review spread — including space to insert a photo — used for every practical across the year.
Co-op Academy Leeds — A Design & Technology book built around a KS2-to-KS3-end progress tracker, signed safety contract and 1–8 progress ladder
A bespoke Design & Technology book for Co-op Academy Leeds, branded with the Co-op shield. The book opens with a six-stage flight path running from KS2 entry through Y7 and Y8 data drops to KS3 end, includes a signed Safety Contract with teacher countersignature, a full 1–8 D&T progress ladder structured around Identify–Design–Optimise–Validate, repeating practical lesson logs, and a half-termly "little wins" progress report.
Co-op Academy Leeds — A KS4 Design & Technology book built around a Year 10–11 data-drop tracker, GCSE deadlines calendar and signed safety contract
A bespoke KS4 Design & Technology book for Co-op Academy Leeds, branded with the Co-op shield on a dark navy cover. The book opens with a Current / Target / Predicted grade tracker running from KS3 end through every data drop in Years 10 and 11, includes the academy's PRIDE presentation code and trust marking code, a signed Safety Contract, a year-long Deadlines and Key Dates calendar from September to July, repeating practical lesson logs and a half-termly "little wins" progress report.
Pearson Edexcel — The exclusive course workbook for GCSE Design and Technology
An exclusive 68-page course workbook built with Pearson Edexcel, tracking every unit of the GCSE (9-1) Design and Technology specification. Now in use with over 100 D&T departments across the UK.
Further Education
Handwriting
Humanities
Languages
Bacon's College — A Spanish workbook that puts classroom language in students' hands
A bespoke Spanish workbook for Bacon's College, opening with a "Why Study Spanish?" motivator and built around the classroom phrases, routines and core terminology students need on every page — from asking permission in Spanish to the connectives, time expressions and opinion phrases that unlock longer written answers.
Bacon's College — A 68-page French book with grade ladders and core terminology built in
A bespoke 68-page French book for Bacon's College, opening with a "Why Study French?" motivator, a five-step grade ladder showing students exactly what each level looks like, and a French terminology reference covering opinions, connectives, tenses, interrogatives and grammar — all sitting alongside the lined pages students write on every lesson.
Literacy
Carr Hill — A literacy companion built around SPaG targets, academic vocabulary and a repeating reading-review spread
A bespoke literacy companion for Carr Hill High School, branded with the school's dove crest and the "Commitment Aspiration Resilience Respect" motto. The book pairs a 21-target SPaG improvement framework with a Carr Hill Academic Word List, a 200 most-commonly-misspelled-words reference, and a repeating book-review spread — giving every student one consistent place to track targets, log reading, and capture misspellings across the year.
Chorlton — An exercise book built around a repeating Key Point, Feedback and Response cycle
A bespoke exercise book for Chorlton, anchored on a repeating three-part lesson spread — Checklist, Key Point and Feedback on one page, Response on the next — and supported by a literacy reference covering oracy, spelling, punctuation and grammar, plus a ten-point presentation code on the inside back.
Co-op Academy Stoke — A 200-page ring-bound subject dictionary spanning 13 subjects
A bespoke 200-page ring-bound dictionary for Co-op Academy Stoke, branded with the Co-op turquoise and yellow flag and the Co-op shield. Opens with an Alex Quigley vocabulary quote and the academy's responsibility line, then runs through 13 subjects — Art, Business, Computer Science, Design & Technology, Drama, English, Geography, History, Maths, P.E, R.E, Science and Spanish — using a single repeating four-up entry template per page (word, part of speech, definition, etymology, linked words and a "How do you use the word?" sentence example). Closes with a full subject-by-subject Index of every word and blank entry templates for students to add their own.
The Deanes School — A lined exercise book built around the school's literacy codes and the "i matter as a learner" ethos
A 68-page A4 lined exercise book for The Deanes School — branded in the school's yellow with the leaping-deer "D" crest on the cover and the "i matter as a learner" strapline on the back of the book, with the school's own literacy marking codes printed inside, a 200 most commonly misspelled words spread, and a dedicated ideas grid page so the book works for any subject on the timetable.
Marking/cpd
Music
Numeracy
Bentley Wood — A 68-page squared maths book with a numeracy mat, target tracker and equivalences spread
A bespoke 68-page squared maths book for Bentley Wood, with a target grade box on the cover, a numeracy tips mat covering measurement, probability, decimals and percentages, a fraction/decimal/percentage equivalences spread, an eight-slot assessment target tracker, and a key words & formulae reference — all sitting alongside the squared pages students work on every lesson.
DAE Studio School — A 68-page bespoke Maths exercise book with a built-in GCSE Foundation checklist
A bespoke 68-page Maths exercise book for DAE Studio School, opening with a "How to look after your book" page and a personal Flight Path target grid, followed by a full Trigonometry and formulae reference spread, repeating squared-paper working pages with built-in marking and key-points strips, and a complete Edexcel GCSE 9–1 Foundation RAG-rating checklist for students to track every topic across the qualification.
PHSE
Bentley Wood — A 68-page PSHE & RSE workbook built around a repeating lesson reflection and three assessment reviews
A bespoke 68-page PSHE and RSE workbook for Bentley Wood, structured around the three core themes — Health and Well-being, Living in the Wider World, and Relationships — with a repeating lesson reflection spread for every topic and three assessment report reviews spaced through the year for whole-school reflection.
Nottingham University Samworth Academy — A Personal Development book built around Voice 21 oracy
A Personal Development book for every student at NUSA — 900 copies branded in the academy’s pink, with the Voice 21 Student Talk Tactics framework at its heart and six dated half-term spreads for reflection.
Physical Education
Aberdare Community School — A bilingual GCSE PE book built around AO command words and the learning pit
A 68-page A4+ GCSE PE book for Aberdare Community School — 200 copies printed for September 2020, with a Welsh-language presentation guide, the AO1–AO3 command words mapped out, and a Tweakit/Flipit/Readit/Mopit/Talkit feedback spread running through the book.
Bentley Wood — A 68-page PE book with the OCR GCSE spec, key terms and body systems built in
A bespoke 68-page Physical Education book for Bentley Wood, opening with the full OCR GCSE (9-1) PE specification overview, a key terminology list and a body systems reference covering the cardiovascular system, respiratory system and levers — all built in alongside the lined pages students work on every lesson.
Primary
Blenheim Primary — A summer challenge journal built around 43 childhood experiences
A bespoke A5 experiences journal for Blenheim Primary, opening with a checklist of 43 childhood experiences for Key Stage 1 pupils to complete — from identifying trees and birds to flipping a pancake and rolling down a hill — and built around a single repeating reflection spread for each experience a child completes, with notes, drawings, best bits, worst bits and a verdict on whether they'd do it again.
Cestria — A subject-specific science exercise book built around BEL learning objectives and exit tickets
A bespoke science exercise book for Cestria Primary School, branded with the school's teal palette, rocket motif and "Every child is a star… it's our job to make them shine!" strapline. Built around the school's six-week teaching block structure, the book pairs a clear "treat your exercise book with respect" charter with repeating BEL (By End Lesson) topic spreads, an exit ticket framework, a key words log and a personal development reminder on the inside back.
Doagh Primary School — A whole-school exercise book built around "Aspire, Aim, Achieve" and the school's seven marking codes
A 68-page A4 lined exercise book for Doagh Primary School — yellow cover carrying the school crest and the Aspire, Aim, Achieve values, a "Great learners at Doagh always…" promises spread paired with "And when we get stuck we…" strategies, a My Targets termly tracker, the full Doagh marking code, an Exercise Book Expectations for Success spread, and the school's twelve-rule code printed inside the back cover.
Doagh Primary School — A spelling and numeracy homework book to match the whole-school exercise book
A 68-page A4 spelling and numeracy book for Doagh Primary School — the green homework companion to the yellow whole-school exercise book, with the same crest and Aspire, Aim, Achieve values on the cover, a times-table robot and a Numbers 1 to 100 wall in the opening pages, and a repeating weekly structure built around three practice attempts, parent signatures, and a corrections box.
