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Tools for teaching. Ready when you are.

Card kits for students, SATs spelling practice, games for the classroom board, teaching tools and toolkits for staff. Most need no log-in or set-up, and what you type stays on your device.

Study Skills Explorer

50 study strategies, each with its own brand-new creature and a step-by-step guide with timers and worked examples. Flick through, try a few tonight, and build a kit of five that works for the way you learn. About the update

50strategies
5families
5for your kit

Calm Kit

Breathing, body, senses and imagination cards. The creatures guide children and young people, one slow step at a time, with a Calm Plan and a guide for grown-ups.

4kinds of calm
2web & phone
1tap to calm

Classroom games

Whole-class activities to open on the board and play straight away. Click the logo in a game's top bar to come back here.

Spelling & reading

Spelling

Year 3/4 Spelling

Look, move, then spell. Flip cards from the statutory word list, with dictation sentences and movement activities.

KS2DictationFocus words
Play
Spelling

Year 5/6 Spelling

The full Year 5/6 statutory list in three tiers, with read-aloud sentences and focus words you choose.

KS2 / KS3Dictation3 tiers
Play
Reading · SATs

Read Between the Lines

Four stories with SATs-style questions. Answer, then tap the sentence in the text that proves it.

KS2Inference3 levels
Play
Reading & reasoning

Detective Case Files

Four mysteries to solve by reading carefully. Search for clues, rule out suspects and accuse the thief.

InferenceRead-aloud3 levels
Play
Memory

Take a Picture

Look at the card, hold it in your head, then draw it from memory. One-, two- and three-step instructions.

Working memoryDrawing3 levels
Play

Coordinates

Maths

Worms Grid

Place your worms on a 7 × 7 grid, then cross off squares as coordinates are called, like Battleships.

(x, y)Auto pickTime limit
Play
French

Jeu des Coordonnées

Hide French landmarks on the grid and listen for the coordinates in French, with number help on screen.

MFLRead aloudTime limit
Play
Any subject

Coordinate Picker

Call random squares for any grid game. Letters or numbers, and any size from 4 × 4 to 12 × 12.

B4 or (2, 4)Grid sizeTime limit
Play

Teaching tools

Show-and-teach tools for a topic: step-by-step guides and whole-class revision to use in the lesson. Grouped by subject.

Maths

Coordinates

Midpoint Worm

You're given two of start, end and midpoint. Find the missing one, then reveal the answer on the grid.

MidpointsKS3Auto reveal
Open

Science

Practical skills

Lighting a Bunsen Burner

Ten safe steps in order, with a burner that shows what should happen at each one: goggles, air hole, gas and flame.

KS3Step by stepSafety
Open
Revision

Science Bingo

Students pick nine answers for a 3×3 grid on mini-whiteboards, then you reveal the questions one by one.

Year 8Periodic tableMini-whiteboards
Open

Staff toolkits

Screening, planning and teaching strategies for busy classroom staff. Needs-led and about support, never fixing. Planning aids, not diagnostic tools.

UK secondary SEND

SEND Toolkit

Screeners for dyslexia, maths, language, autism and ADHD, support plans, referral guides, observation and behaviour records, a strategy generator and a family tool. Assess, plan, do, review.

15 toolsScreeningSupport plans
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Thinking, research & writing

Literacy Toolkit

Thinking, research and writing strategies, each with how to use it and a print-ready A4 worksheet. Organisers, frameworks, discussion and evaluation tools.

129 strategiesA4 worksheetsWriting frameworks
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Professional learning

Short, practical CPD courses. Progress saves as you go, and there's a certificate at the end.

Courses

CPD Library

Start or continue a course, including STAR Behaviour Monitoring and Spotting Barriers to Learning.

Self-pacedCertificates
Open the library
Certificates

Verify a certificate

For employers and schools: ask us to confirm that a Crux Education CPD certificate is genuine.

EmployersSchools
Check a certificate

Using EdBox on the board

1Go full screen

Press F11 on the classroom computer. Press it again to leave.

2Short links

Type these straight into the address bar:

3Light or dark

Use the settings button at the top to switch theme or turn on easy-read text. Each tool remembers it on this device.