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Dear PE colleagues,
I want to tell you something I have never said publicly before.
For 12 years, I have been thinking about what a genuinely great, world-class, qualification-PE learning platform would look like. Not a passable one. Not a "that'll do" one. A genuinely great one. The kind that makes a PE teacher's jaw drop slightly, not because it is flashy or gimmicky, but because it is right. Because it understands why you do what you do, and it helps you do it better.
Imagine a scenario where you, as a teacher of GCSE or A-level PE, BTEC Sport, IB SEHS or Cambridge Nationals, had access to a platform that made every other subject teacher in your school deeply jealous and demanding that they need the equivalent.
Here's the thing: I did not start The EverLearner knowing I would end up here. I started it as a teacher with a problem to solve. Then it became a business. Then it became a craft. Then, somewhere in the middle of all of that, it became a philosophy, a deeply held set of beliefs about what PE education is for, and what technology's proper role within it should be.
12 years later, those beliefs have converged with a capability that did not exist a decade ago.
What 1.0 gave us, and why that matters
Before I say anything about what is coming, I want to say something about what already exists. Because I think it matters enormously, and I think it is easy to overlook in the excitement of an announcement like this.TheEverLearner.com 1.0, the site that is live right now, is a brilliant learning platform. I mean that without any marketing spin whatsoever. Over the last several years, it has become a trusted part of the teaching lives of more than 1,200 PE departments across the UK and internationally. The 90% renewal rate we are proud to share is not a vanity metric, but the clearest possible evidence that the platform genuinely improves outcomes for teachers and students. Colleagues renew because it works.
What 1.0 taught us is arguably as valuable as what it delivered. Every tutorial series we built, every quiz we wrote, every exam question we designed, every piece of feedback a teacher gave us… all of it became data. The best kind of data: the kind rooted in real classrooms, real students, real marking, real results. We know what causes learning in PE. We know what trips students up in AQA, OCR or Edexcel papers. We know which concepts teachers find hardest to explain and which explanations land most effectively. That knowledge is irreplaceable, and it does not disappear when 2.0 launches. It becomes the foundation.
I urge colleagues to think of 2.0 not as a replacement for something that failed, but as the natural and ambitious next chapter of something that worked. We are not walking away from 1.0. We are building on everything it taught us, with tools that were simply not available to us before.
The problem we set out to solve
Let me be candid. Most EdTech platforms get education wrong. They target either the teacher or the student as the pure end user. They build their tools around one or the other. And in doing so, they miss the point entirely.
Institutionally based education does not happen to teachers or to students. It happens in the spaces and interactions between them. That is where learning lives. That is where attainment is made or missed. That is what we have always called the impact zone, and it is precisely what we have built TheEverLearner.com 2.0 to serve.
Many of you will have already imagined what a genuinely useful platform could look like, built around that idea. You have probably wished for it, in fact. Something that gives you the data to act, the tools to assign, the feedback loop to close, and does all of that without burying you in administration or making you feel like a system operator rather than a teacher.
That is the design philosophy. Full stop.
The experience of never feeling “now”
I want to introduce you to an idea that has shaped every design decision we have made.Users of the new platform will never feel like they are experiencing now technology.
Let me explain what I mean by that, because it sounds paradoxical and it is worth unpacking.
On the one hand, they will experience the legacy of well-researched, educationally valid practice. Our video tutorials are delivered on a digital blackboard in a style that great teachers have always used: clear, direct, expert-led. The kind of teaching that feels timeless because it is: it is just brilliant explanation, in a brilliant environment. There is no novelty for novelty's sake. There is no aesthetic dressing that dates the moment you click away. Watching our tutorials should feel like sitting in front of a brilliant colleague who has mastered their subject. That feeling is not accidental. We spent years building it, and we are keeping it. With such experiences in our “traditional” teaching, our tiered, spaced and interleaved quizzing and with ongoing and relentless exam practice, you and your PE students will feel the nostalgia of what has always been good and correct.
On the other hand, users will encounter capabilities at the absolute cutting edge of what AI can do in an educational context right now: fully automated exam marking and diagnostics, AI-generated assignment creation, analytical dashboards that surface the insights that actually matter and allow you to continue delving into any combinations of metrics you wish. The kind of power that, until recently, was simply not available to any EdTech platform at any price anywhere in the world. This is the futurism that I guarantee you every time you log in to TheEverLearner.com.
What will you never get? What will you never see? You will never ever experience “now”. You will never experience staleness. You will never experience a standard “just another” platform. You will experience the nostalgia of real, impactful PE learning and PE teaching in the most futuristic environment that can be imagined. And, at least to begin with, only qualification PE teachers will have their hands on it.
Here is the thing: great technology, when it is done well, does not feel like technology. It feels inevitable, natural, like the right tool for the task at hand. A teacher does not think "I am using AI to mark this script". Rather, they think "this feedback is exactly what my student needs." A student does not think "This platform is personalised". Rather, they think "This question is just right for where I am."
That is the experience we are designing towards. Not nostalgia alone. Not futurism alone. Both, simultaneously, so well integrated that the user never feels the join.
Something we can now reveal: The new look
Those of you at this afternoon's webinar saw something that surprised more than a few people in the room.The new TheEverLearner.com has a new visual identity.
We have been quietly developing this for some time, working closely with Marta and Irena from our design team. I want to give you a small preview now, because I think it speaks to everything I have been saying about the platform's character.
The logo is a single, elegant idea: an active person (arms raised, in motion), whose raised arms also form the shape of an illuminated lightbulb. Movement and thinking. Physical activity and learning. Fused into one mark. It is the clearest possible visual expression of what we have always believed: that PE is a thinking subject, and that the best PE teachers treat it as one.
The two brand colours are Amber Yellow and Persian Green: warm, confident and energetic. The yellow carries the optimism and brightness of a great idea. The green carries the depth and rigour that serious education requires. You will see those colours across every touchpoint of the new platform: from the logo mark to the interface to the content.
The typography has been chosen with the same care. Platform titles use Fredoka: approachable, rounded and confident. Body text uses Nunito: clean, legible, warm. These are not accidental choices. They reflect the tone we have always aimed for: expert without being austere. Accessible without being dumbed down.
I will not reveal any more today, as we want the full launch to land properly in November 2026. But if the logo alone gives you a sense of the quality and intentionality behind every decision we have made, then the preview has done its job.
What does it look like in practice?
I urge colleagues to think about the platform not as a single product but as a set of capabilities that can be deployed in the way that suits your department best.Here are three examples of how real PE departments might use it:
The busy Head of PE who needs to cut workload without cutting standards. The new platform's assignment tools (Watch, Practice, Test, Checkpoint and Exam) mean that structured, pedagogically sound learning can be set, tracked and reported on in a fraction of the time it currently takes. The AI marking engine handles exam scripts. The data dashboard (built with AI and entirely customisable) tells you who is falling behind before they tell you themselves in the metrics that you wish to compare. You redirect your time to the actions that only a teacher can take.
The ECT who wants to teach well but does not yet have 12 years of subject expertise. Our exam-board specific tutorial content, as well as PE Teacher Academy, is built around a single source of truth for each course and gives every teacher access to the same expert-level explanations, exam-style questions and feedback language that experienced colleagues take for granted. The platform does not replace the teacher's expertise, but it scaffolds it while that expertise develops.
The exam technique specialist preparing students for AQA, OCR or Edexcel GCSE PE or any other PE course. The ExamSimulator, Centralised Exam Templates and AI-powered marking give students genuine exam practice with genuine exam feedback, at scale, and without burying the teacher in marking. Students improve their technique because they get meaningful feedback, not just a mark, and can do so with or without the teacher’s direct involvement.
These are not hypothetical scenarios. They are the use cases we have built every feature around.
Frequently Asked Questions
When is it launching? We are targeting November 2026 for the soft launch and no later than February 2027 for a full switch-off of TheEverLearner.com 1.0. We are currently in sprint 8 of a 19-sprint development programme. Each sprint is 10 working days in duration. We are on track.Will my current subscription transfer? Yes. There will be a seamless migration from the current platform to the new one. We are planning a hard close of the legacy system once migration is complete.
What exam boards and qualifications will it cover? From launch, the platform will cover GCSE (AQA, OCR, Edexcel, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas, CCEA), A-Level (AQA, OCR, Edexcel, WJEC, CIE AS), BTEC Tech, NCFE, BTEC L3, Cambridge Technical, Cambridge Nationals, International Baccalaureate SEHS and a range of non-examination courses including Pre-GCSE PE, Pre-IB, KS3 PE and Sports Leadership.
What are the Bronze, Silver and Gold tiers? These will be confirmed at a later date, but current subscribers will be getting a lot more for their well-considered expenditure.
Will existing customers get beta access? This is one of the things we are actively working through right now. We want a beta testing group in place as early as sprint 9 or 10, and we are thinking carefully about what the ideal group looks like. Watch this space!
What if I want to be involved in testing? Please get in touch. Complete this form here, and we will make sure you are added to the conversation.
What we need from you
Two things.First, if you attended this afternoon's webinar and found the preview of the new platform useful, share it. Share it with your HOD, your curriculum leader, your SLT. We have over 1,200 departments currently using TheEverLearner across the UK and internationally. The new platform is what those 1,200 departments have been asking for.
Second, if you are curious, sceptical, excited or have questions, write to us. Genuinely. I read everything. The feedback we receive from colleagues like you has shaped every significant decision in this build, and that is not going to change.
The mission driving every line of this build is simple to state and extraordinarily difficult to execute:
That is not marketing language. It is why we get up.
I think this is something worth being excited about. I think it deserves your attention. And I think, when you see it properly in November, it will take your breath away.
I genuinely mean that.
Thank you for reading, and thank you even more for the trust you place in us every year when you subscribe, recommend, renew and engage. It matters more than I can adequately express in a blog post.
Have a wonderful rest of term.
James