Middlesbrough’s Life Ninja secures Innovate UK funding to grow education apps

A Teesside-based training expertise firm has secured funding in direction of the event of a variety of apps that promote studying outdoors the classroom.

Life Ninja will use the Innovate UK grant to develop an engagement community for use by faculties each inside the UK and abroad.

The Middlesbrough enterprise makes use of innovative applied sciences to assist main faculties meet their digital wants by means of a collection of apps powered by an intuitive internet dashboard.

The Innovate UK cash will make sure the success of the enterprise and assist promote future progress.

Life Ninja is the brainchild of buddies Trevor Willis and Tom Bailey who met at an antenatal class while anticipating their first kids. As their kids grew and began main college, they recognised the necessity for technological options to unravel the issues many faculties, mother and father and college students face each day.

Co-founder Mr Wills stated: “Being granted an Innovate UK grant is an actual vote of confidence in our distinctive method to partaking mother and father, college students, and lecturers across the life and studying of the scholar.”

The agency’s apps embody Studying Ninja, which is a free homeschooling hub that permits kids, mother and father, and lecturers to collaborate across the life and studying of a scholar. Particular person apps can ‘plugin’ to the community to allow them to all work seamlessly alongside each other.

With many college students compelled to earn a living from home over the previous yr with the Covid-19 pandemic, the engagement platform permits mother and father to be stored knowledgeable of their little one’s work progress through the day.

Studying Ninja may also be utilized by faculties as a one-stop-shop house studying answer that helps communication with mother and father. It features a studying data part, dwell quizzes, tournaments, and the chance for college kids to earn cash to make use of on constructing their very own platform-wide avatar scenes, in addition to buy gadgets created by lecturers and fogeys, resembling half-hour Minecraft play or a motorcycle trip.

Message Ninja can be utilized as a communication hub not simply between a faculty and fogeys, however for inside exchanges. It differs from different training communication apps in that oldsters can e book appointments with lecturers and make funds, fundraising actions and occasions can simply be organised, and digital consent obtained, decreasing the workload on lecturers.

Academics may schedule video classes by way of the app calendar.

Zap Maths brings the maths curriculum to life, encouraging scholar participation and empowering lecturers to attract on a deep financial institution of fabric or create their very own questions and video games.

Andy Preston, Mayor for Middlesbrough stated: “It’s sensible to see Middlesbrough’s Life Ninja increasing and doing much more work to get youngsters studying. Companies like Life Ninja are serving to to construct an unbelievable and thrilling future for Middlesbrough. After all, the approaching weeks will stay powerful, however we’re on a path to nice issues.”