The award-winning literacy skills platform improving the experience and outcomes of education

Supporting schools, academies, colleges and authorities to create a fairer future for young people. EdenFiftyOne® systemizes the step-by-step development of 51 universal literacy skills
across reading, writing, speaking and listening.

‘Why hasn’t this been thought of before?’

Peter Cox Former DfE Advisor,
Ofsted Inspector & MAT CEO

Your skill-by-skill literacy assistant
for whole school impact

Step-by-step, skill-by-skill, and a simple traffic light system to promote proficiency and progress across reading, writing, speaking and listening, the EFO platform transforms the experience and outcomes of literacy education.

Streamline teaching, learning and assessment with a formative skill-based focus to underpin summative tasks [tweak skills to change grades]
Easily integrate within your existing schemes of work [our universal skills are curriculum and exam board agnostic]

Fine-tune intervention at every level with a clear, colorful and hyper-personalized learning journey [supporting you to identify, celebrate and impact the skills performance of every learner]

Literacy is the foundation
that a young person builds their success story upon…

Supporting young people to succeed academically, professionally and socially.
And yet…

2 million young people are estimated to be struggling to understand language at an age-appropriate level
Disadvantaged students are almost two years behind in their academic achievement by the time they leave secondary school
The ‘weight’, pace and pressure of the KS3/GCSE curriculum means that explicit literacy skills tuition is often confined to the earlier years of education, when experiences differ greatly and retention – throughout adolescence – is expected
Attempting to support differentiated literacy needs creates an overwhelming work-load challenge for teachers and leaders

Improving literacy drives aspiration
from the classroom, to the exam hall and beyond…

‘Students have made significant progress (with some having gone up two grades in ten weeks) and they appear more focused: coming up at lunch times willingly for intervention!’

Cate Davies, Ormiston Bushfield Academy, Peterborough

‘This approach really works! We completely changed the course of our English outcomes: adding over 30% within 3 months! Our students achieved their best-ever GCSE examination results‘

Samantha Williamson, Headteacher, Merchants Academy, Bristol

‘EFO’s traffic light system gives students a competitive edge… preparing them for future academic and professional success. It’s an invaluable tool that has truly elevated their learning experience.’

Megan Thompson, English Teacher, Calday Grange, Grammar School, Wirral

📢 Transformative Education leaders! 📢

Are you ready to shape the future of literacy education?

Collaboration Cohort 2 is now open. Register your team’s interest to get September-Ready!

From September 2024, we’ve been working alongside transformative education leaders and teachers from schools, academies and colleges across the country. Our innovative EFO platform has helped them to transform the experience and outcomes of literacy education for 100s of young people. Their feedback, suggestions and ‘upvotes’ for new features and functions have helped us to further refine the literacy skills platform that teachers, leaders and learners need and deserve.

EdenFiftyOne started having an impact from Week One. We’ve seen a noticeable boost in student confidence, with learners feeling more prepared and engaged.

‘The skill-by-skill approach is clear and effective, helping to drive real progress in a short time. It’s been a game-changer for both teaching and learning: helping us to achieve ‘Above National Average English Results’ within weeks.’

Kath Thomasson, UK GCSE English Lead, Access Colleges, Collaboration Cohort 1

Meet Tom Reynolds, EdenFiftyOne’s founder

A five-times Head of English on a mission
to improve literacy skills education

As a former English teacher diagnosed as dyslexic just four days after completing his English degree, Tom has a unique understanding of the complexities faced by young people attempting to overcome literacy challenges.

Created to cope with the complexity of differentiated needs within the classroom [Tom self-built the first ‘EFO’ platform in Microsoft Excel], EdenFiftyOne demystifies reading, writing, speaking and listening by deconstructing the learning journey into 51 universal literacy skills, democratizing the pathway to literacy proficiency.

UK Specialist Leader of Education [SLE]
Liverpool John Moores University Guest Lecturer for English teacher training
Education Advisor to the world’s first United Nations regional office
‘Great British Entrepreneur of The Year’ [Technology] Finalist

Don’t take our word for it.

Miss Davies asked the boys in 11X3 if they thought that using EdenFiftyOne®
has helped them to improve their GCSE grades…

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Collaborations & Partners

EdenFiftyOne supports the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and we are proud to work alongside the world’s first UN recognised regional office, Liverpool’s 2030hub.

We are very proud to share that Liverpool John Moores University is our official Research Partner

EdenFiftyOne is sponsor of the 2024 Educate Awards for the ‘Innovative and Creative Literacy Award’