One-to-one AI tutoring for every child
SchoolPal gives your child a friendly AI avatar tutor that explains things their way, listens, and adjusts in real time to how they’re doing — designed from the ground up to support children who learn differently, including those with ADHD and attention needs.
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The problem
A one-to-one tutor is the gold standard of learning. SchoolPal is built to bring that experience within reach of more families and more classrooms.
In a busy classroom, one teacher looks after thirty children at once — and every one of them arrives with a different pace, different prior knowledge, and a different level of support they need to thrive. Decades of education research point to the same answer: children learn best with a patient tutor at their side, working one to one. The trouble is that a personal tutor has always been expensive and hard to come by, so the children who would gain the most often go without.
That gap is widest for children who learn differently. Pupils with ADHD, attention difficulties or working-memory challenges aren’t short on ability; they simply don’t fit a one-size-fits-all lesson built for the middle of the room. When the pace is wrong and the support is thin, bright, capable children can be left feeling that learning isn’t for them. SchoolPal was made for exactly these children — and for every child who deserves a lesson that adapts to them rather than the other way round.
One-to-one tutoring lifts learning by around two standard deviations over the classroom average — Bloom’s “2 Sigma” finding (1984).
School-age children worldwide have ADHD (Polanczyk et al., 2007) — among the learners SchoolPal is built to include.
Research finds well-designed intelligent tutoring can approach the effectiveness of a one-to-one human tutor (Kulik & Fletcher, 2016) — the standard SchoolPal is designed to reach for.
How a lesson works
A friendly AI tutor guides your child through each lesson at their own pace — explaining clearly, checking in gently, and adjusting as it goes. Your child can speak their answers aloud or simply type, whichever feels more comfortable.
An AI avatar tutor greets your child by voice and walks them through the lesson in plain, natural language. Your child can reply out loud or type, so the lesson feels like a real conversation rather than a worksheet.
As the tutor speaks, easy-to-follow explanations and worked examples appear on screen — from breaking a number into hundreds, tens and ones to unpicking a tricky word in a reading passage. Hearing and seeing an idea together helps it stick.
Little check-in questions and quick knowledge checks appear at the right moments, so understanding is confirmed step by step. There’s no pressure — just a friendly nudge to make sure each idea has landed before moving on.
Every answer gets a warm, immediate response. Right answers are celebrated, and when something isn’t quite there, the tutor offers a gentle hint or a fresh way to look at it — so your child stays confident and keeps trying.
The lesson responds in real time to how your child is doing — easing off when they’re flying and slowing down to give more support when a topic is tricky. It’s designed to stay in that sweet spot: never too hard, never too easy.
Each lesson ends by recapping what your child has learned and celebrating what they did well — leaving them with a genuine sense of progress and a reason to come back.
For ADHD & SEND
Support, not surveillance
For a child with ADHD or an attention difference, the hardest part of learning often isn’t the question itself — it’s holding it all in mind, resisting the urge to rush, and staying calm when something goes wrong. SchoolPal is designed to support exactly those moments. The scaffolds are built into every lesson and switch on gently when they help, so a child is steadied, never spotlighted. It’s support, not surveillance — and no child is ever singled out for it.
SchoolPal gently discourages rushing into an answer, giving your child a beat to think first — so a quick impulse is less likely to turn into a wrong answer.
Before committing, your child may be asked to say what a question is really asking, or to read it aloud — which catches the common slip of answering the wrong question.
For younger or attention-tired learners, questions and key passages can be read aloud — easing the reading load so your child can focus on the thinking.
The material your child needs stays put on screen until it’s no longer needed, so nothing important has to be remembered while working through a problem.
When your child gets stuck, a tricky problem is broken down into smaller, more manageable steps — lightening the load and rebuilding momentum one piece at a time.
Every wrong answer is met with encouragement, never judgement. Mistakes are treated as a normal part of learning, helping protect your child’s confidence.
And SchoolPal stays attentive to how your child is doing, stepping in with quick, supportive help — so a tricky moment is less likely to spiral into feeling stuck and giving up.
Personalised learning
Two children can sit down to the very same lesson and have completely different experiences of it. SchoolPal personalises what each child actually hears, woven around the things they love so the learning lands. The AI tutor sets the pace to suit them, offers just the right level of help, and adjusts as the lesson goes on — so a child who needs a little more support gets it, and a confident learner keeps moving.
It also pays attention to how a child is really doing. The tutor recognises the difference between a lucky guess and genuine understanding, and responds accordingly — gently building on real strengths and giving extra time where something hasn’t quite clicked yet. The result is a lesson that feels made for your child, because in every meaningful way, it is.
For parents
SchoolPal gives you a patient one-to-one teacher for the subjects you can’t cover alone — and keeps you firmly in charge. You choose what your child learns, see exactly how they’re getting on, and adjust as you go.
SchoolPal follows your child’s mastery skill by skill and shows you precisely where they are — so a clear record of what’s been covered and learned builds itself as they go, with no spreadsheets to keep.
Pick a subject and topic and SchoolPal builds a complete, structured lesson in minutes — so you’re not planning lessons late into the night.
Bring your own passage, worked examples or resources, and SchoolPal builds the lessons around them — so your child learns from sources you trust.
Create your own questions and assessments to check understanding, and see how your child gets on with each one.
SchoolPal follows national-curriculum content when you want that structure, and goes your own way when you don’t — you decide.
Change the pace, the difficulty, the topic and how much help your child gets, whenever you need to — the lesson bends to your child, not the other way round.
If you’re educating your child at home, the responsibility is yours in law — an education suited to your child’s age, ability, aptitude and any special educational needs, with no funding, no set curriculum and no training. No parent can personally teach every subject, and one-to-one tutoring is expensive.
SchoolPal is built for exactly this. It teaches the subjects you can’t cover yourself, and — as councils begin keeping “children not in school” registers — it quietly builds a record of what your child has covered and learned, as a natural by-product of teaching.
For tutors, teachers & schools
SchoolPal does the heavy lifting of building a thoughtfully structured lesson, then hands it straight back to you to review and refine. Nothing reaches a student without your approval.
No technical skill needed. If you can describe the lesson, you can build it.
Grounded in research
Every teaching technique SchoolPal uses draws on established, peer-reviewed research into how children actually learn.
SchoolPal isn’t built on hunches about what feels modern. The way it teaches, the way it responds when your child is stuck, and the way it understands what they’ve truly grasped all draw on a deep body of published education and cognitive-science research — some of it foundational, much of it from recent meta-analyses and systematic reviews. We’ve taken ideas that have been studied for decades and made them part of everyday learning at home.
In practice, that means each lesson is shaped by what the evidence says helps children learn and remember, and the support adapts in real time to how your child is doing. It’s also designed to be accessible to learners who find focus and working memory harder, including children with ADHD. We’re honest about what that is: thoughtful, research-informed teaching — not a promise of any particular result.
The long-recognised power of personal teaching, shaped entirely around the learner, sits at the heart of how SchoolPal works.
Guiding a learner just beyond what they can do alone, then easing off as they grow — so the challenge always feels achievable.
Recalling and using what you’ve learned — not just rereading it — is one of the most reliable ways to make knowledge stick.
Encouraging children to think about their own thinking is a well-studied habit that builds confident, independent learners.
Informed by research on attention and working memory, to be supportive of learners — including those with ADHD — who find focus harder.
See it in action
Real children, real lessons. Footage from learners working with their AI tutor across maths, English and more — at their own pace, with the patient back-and-forth that keeps them going. Films of real learners are on the way; in the meantime, here’s a glimpse of the lessons they’ll be exploring.
Who it’s for
SchoolPal gives every child a calm, one-to-one AI tutor that adapts to how they’re doing in the moment. We’re in early access and growing carefully — families and tutors today, with broader school rollout on the horizon.
A patient, encouraging AI tutor that gives your child unhurried one-to-one attention and adapts in real time to how they’re doing. Designed to be supportive of children who learn differently, including those with ADHD and SEND — it explains things at their pace, checks understanding gently, and celebrates progress without pressure.
Author engaging, well-structured lessons in a fraction of the usual time, then tailor them to each student you teach. Set the level of support per learner, keep sessions consistent between meetings, and stand out with genuinely inclusive teaching that welcomes neurodiverse and SEND learners.
Inclusive one-to-one practice that can complement your high-needs and Pupil Premium provision — giving pupils calm, adaptive practice that supports your staff rather than replacing them. Built on established educational research and a commitment to accessibility. School rollout is on the horizon, and we’d love to involve forward-looking schools as we get there.
Inclusive education technology, designed to support learners — not a medical or diagnostic tool.
Questions, answered
Honest answers about what SchoolPal does today, who it’s for, and how we keep children safe.
SchoolPal is built for primary and secondary learners, roughly ages 5 to 16. It’s designed to work across many subjects, including maths, English, science and the humanities. Lessons are tailored to a child’s year group, and the tutor adapts its language and pace to suit younger and older learners alike.
No. SchoolPal is designed to support teachers and tutors, not replace them. It gives each child patient, one-to-one practice between lessons, while the adult stays firmly in charge of what is taught and how. Teachers build and review the lessons, choose the right approach for each child, and see how every learner is getting on.
SchoolPal is built to be supportive of children who find it hard to focus or who tend to rush. It can gently slow things down before an answer is submitted, check that a question has been understood first, keep helpful material on screen so there’s less to hold in mind, and offer calm, encouraging support when a child gets stuck — all framed positively. The aim is a calm, structured session where a child feels supported rather than singled out.
No. SchoolPal is an inclusive education and accessibility tool — not a medical device or a therapy. It does not diagnose, treat or manage ADHD, SEND or any condition, and it’s not a substitute for advice from a qualified professional. It’s designed to make learning more accessible and supportive for a wide range of learners, and it works alongside the support a child already receives.
Child safety and privacy are central to how SchoolPal is built. Lessons are structured and supervised by the adult who sets them up, and the tutor is designed to keep errors framed positively and interactions age-appropriate. Sensitive credentials are handled on our servers rather than on your device, and we’re committed to handling personal data responsibly and in line with UK data-protection law. We’ll share clear, specific privacy details as part of early access.
Yes. Adults are always in control. Teachers and parents decide which lessons a child takes, can build lessons from scratch or adjust the ready-made structure, and choose the level of support each child receives. They can review how a child is progressing, and the AI tutor follows the approach the adult has set rather than going its own way.
No. The on-screen tutor is an AI avatar, not a real human, and it does not have genuine feelings. It’s designed to be warm, patient and encouraging so that learning feels friendly — while always being an AI helper rather than a person.
SchoolPal is a desktop application for Windows, with the AI avatar tutor, speech interaction and on-screen whiteboard all in one place. Details of supported devices and any further platforms will be confirmed as we open up access.
SchoolPal’s initial Parent and Tutor plan is free. Create an account to set up your family or class. Later fees will be based on student numbers; pricing and any paid transition will be confirmed separately.
Yes. Teachers and tutors can create lessons with the built-in AI Lesson Builder, including from their own reference material, then review and refine everything before a child sees it — so your own resources, passages and worked examples can become interactive, supportive lessons.
Early access
Create your family or class, set up student logins, and invite other adults to teach with you. The initial plan is free; no payment details are required.
Create a free Parent or Tutor accountSelf-serve sign-up isn’t open just yet — email schoolpal@nexalat.com and we’ll set up your free Parent or Tutor account.
Parent and Tutor accounts include the same teaching features. Future paid plans will depend on student numbers; no paid plan is activated here.
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