Helping Educators Achieve Remarkable Outcomes

Hearo is a revolutionary and free phonics assessment tool to both improve outcomes for young learners and also take workload off EYFS and Key Stage 1 teachers. Rather than using the traditional paper-based phonics assessment, with Hearo teachers can complete everything online and receive real time data at the click of a button.

Personalised Interventions

Crucially, Hearo’s intelligent backend automatically provides individualised interventions tailored to each child’s ability - accelerating their learning while taking pressure of time-poor teachers.

Fidelity to Your School's SSP

Hearo maintains fidelity to every school's Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP) program, ensuring alignment with the specific code and structure.

Pedagogically Sound

Backed up by extensive research, Hearo incorporates evidence-based pedagogy, ensuring that every aspect of the tool contributes to effective and meaningful phonics learning experiences.

Time Efficient

Streamlines 1:1 interventions, saving valuable teacher time and allowing for a more focused and productive use of classroom resources.

Real-Time Data

Empowers educators with real-time data, allowing them to make informed decisions about future learning.

Free

Making educational interventions accessible to all at no cost, in light of the current budget crisis in schools.

Assessment and Reporting

Using the current SSPs assessment schedule, with Hearo, this process will be automated. Rather than inputting the paper-based version into a spreadsheet for analysis, Hearo completes this process for each educator. A range of bespoke individual and group assessment reports are available at any given time, freeing up valuable time.

Personalised Learning

Hearo´s technology uses a spaced repetition model to prioritise unknown sounds whilst still keeping known sounds ticking over, building a personalised learning journey for each child. Every time a child returns to Hearo, they are given a unique intervention to maximise their progress in becoming a confident reader.

Why Hearo Matters

A new analysis from the National Literacy Trust reveals 81% of English constituencies have at least one ward with poor literacy levels (2023). This relates to the alarming statistic from the Trust whereby 7.1 million adults in England are deemed to be grappling with 'very poor literacy skills'. Research shows that early intervention stands out as the most efficient and cost-effective strategy to support children at risk of literacy challenges (DFE, 2010; August & Shanahan, 2006; Gough & Tunmer, 1986).

The recent phonics screening check, as reported by GOV.UK in 2023, reveals a concerning 16% point gap in achievement between non-disadvantaged and disadvantaged learners—underscoring the broader educational disparities that illiteracy magnifies. This gap not only accentuates the urgent need for effective interventions but also emphasises the societal implications, impacting communities and hindering economic mobility.

Moreover, studies, such as those conducted by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) in 2021, highlight that disadvantaged learners significantly benefit from targeted phonics interventions. Unfortunately, the current budget crisis in schools has created resource constraints, limiting the delivery of high-quality early interventions (NAHT, 2022).

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