LearningMole for Schools: LearningMole works with UK schools, multi-academy trusts and EdTech partners in three quite different ways, and the right starting point depends on who you are and what you’re trying to solve. A single primary school looking for classroom-ready video resources has a different journey to a MAT central team standardising provision across twenty schools, and both are different again from an EdTech platform or publisher wanting to license curriculum-aligned video content for their own product.
This page exists to get you to the right place quickly. LearningMole is a UK educational platform founded by Michelle Connolly, a former primary school teacher with over 15 years of classroom experience, built on more than 3,300 curriculum-aligned resources and 800+ educational videos covering maths, English, science, history and geography for children aged 4 to 11. Every pathway below draws on the same library and the same curriculum alignment work, packaged for a different kind of buyer.
Choose the option that matches your role. Each route leads to a dedicated page with pricing, licensing terms or trust-level detail relevant to that audience, so you’re not wading through content meant for someone else. If you’re still not sure which category fits, the comparison table further down this page sets the three routes side by side.
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Working out which of three very different agreements fits your situation shouldn’t take a phone call before you even know what to ask. This page is built to get you to the right pricing, licensing or trust-level detail in one click, based on how you actually buy.
See our subscription plans if you’re an individual teacher or parent looking for personal access rather than a school-wide or licensing arrangement.
If you’re a class teacher, subject lead or headteacher looking for curriculum-aligned video resources for your own classroom or your whole school, the school subscription route covers what you need. This gives individual schools access to the full LearningMole video library, mapped to the UK National Curriculum, with content spanning EYFS through KS2 and covering maths, English, science, history, geography and phonics.
Schools using this route typically want to reduce planning time, give teachers reliable video content they can drop into a lesson without pre-checking every fact, and give pupils consistent access to the same resources at school and at home. Access usually covers the whole staff body rather than a single classroom, so a subject lead can roll content out across year groups without buying separate licences per teacher.
Pricing is structured for single-school budgets rather than trust-wide procurement, and setup is designed to be manageable for a busy teacher or leader without IT or procurement support. Most schools are live within days of signing up, since there’s no integration work required on the school’s side.
If you’re responsible for curriculum resourcing, EdTech procurement or standardisation across a multi-academy trust, a single-school subscription usually isn’t the right shape. MAT-wide access is built for central teams managing provision across multiple academies, with trust-level licensing, consistent access for every school in the trust, and reporting that gives a central curriculum or EdTech lead visibility across the whole trust rather than school by school.
This route typically suits trusts standardising curriculum resources ahead of an academic year, bringing newly joined academies onto common provision, or replacing a patchwork of individual school subscriptions with a single trust agreement. It also suits trusts wanting a single point of contact and a single invoice, rather than each school negotiating and renewing separately. The Department for Education’s academy trust handbook sets out the wider governance and financial framework MATs operate within, which shapes how trusts typically procure resources like this.
Central teams generally get a dashboard view of usage across schools, which helps identify where uptake is strong and where a school might need extra onboarding support. This is usually the deciding factor for trusts moving away from school-by-school subscriptions: visibility, not just cost.
If you represent an EdTech platform, courseware developer, learning platform, or publisher looking to licence educational video content rather than subscribe to it directly, this is an entirely different arrangement. Content licensing gives EdTech and publishing partners access to LearningMole’s video library for integration into their own product, whether that’s embedding videos within a platform, building a courseware package, or supplementing existing content with curriculum-aligned material.
Licensing terms, integration options, and pricing here are structured around commercial reuse rather than classroom subscription, and the arrangement is built for partners who need the content within their own product rather than for direct access by teachers and pupils on LearningMole itself. Integration typically covers API access, embed options or direct file delivery, depending on how the partner’s platform is built.
This route also suits publishers producing their own courseware who want proven, curriculum-mapped video to sit alongside their own material rather than commissioning new video from scratch. It tends to be a faster route to market than in-house production, since the curriculum alignment work is already done.
| School Subscription | MAT-Wide Access | Content Licensing | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who it’s for | Individual schools, teachers, and school leaders | MAT central teams, trust curriculum leads | EdTech platforms, publishers, courseware developers |
| What’s covered | Direct classroom and pupil access | Access across every academy in the trust | Reuse of content inside a third-party product |
| Pricing basis | Per-school | Per-trust, scaled to the number of academies | Licence fee or usage-based, agreed per partner |
| Typical setup time | Days | Weeks, following a scoping conversation | Weeks, following scoping and integration planning |
| Reporting | Basic usage overview | Trust-wide dashboard across schools | Not applicable, content is used within partner’s own platform |
LearningMole was founded by Michelle Connolly, a former primary school teacher with over 15 years of classroom experience, including time teaching internationally. That classroom background shapes how the content is built: every video and resource is designed by people who have planned lessons and stood in front of a class, not produced as generic content and retrofitted to the curriculum afterwards.
The numbers reflect that focus. LearningMole’s library now covers more than 3,300 free and subscription-based resources and over 800 educational videos, all aligned with the UK National Curriculum. The LearningMole YouTube channel has grown to more than 260,000 subscribers, with children aged 4 to 11 watching curriculum-aligned content.
“Schools don’t need more content; they need content they can trust without checking every fact first,” says Michelle Connolly, Founder of LearningMole and former teacher with over 15 years of classroom experience. “That’s what curriculum alignment actually means in practice: a teacher can use a video cold, in front of a class, and know it holds up.”
That trust extends to how LearningMole works with partners at scale. Single schools, MAT central teams, and EdTech platforms each receive a route that aligns with how they actually buy and use educational content, rather than being forced through a single generic sign-up form regardless of size or purpose.
Curriculum alignment isn’t a label added after a video is made; it shapes the planning stage. Each topic is mapped to specific National Curriculum objectives and key stage expectations before production starts, so a teacher searching for Year 4 fractions content or KS2 forces and motion gets material written to that exact stage rather than a generic version adjusted after the fact.
This matters most for schools and MATs evaluating several providers at once. Content built around broad age bands rather than specific year-group objectives tends to require more teacher adaptation before it’s classroom-ready, eroding the time-saving that resource subscriptions are meant to provide. LearningMole’s video library is structured so a subject lead can search by year group and curriculum objective, not just by general topic.
For EdTech and publishing partners, the same structure is an advantage on the licensing side: content tagged to specific curriculum objectives integrates more cleanly into a platform’s own tagging and search system than loosely categorised video, which reduces the mapping work a partner would otherwise need to do after licensing.
Procurement decisions for schools and trusts increasingly involve data protection and accessibility questions alongside curriculum fit, and these are reasonable things to ask about before signing any agreement. Schools and MATs should expect any resource provider to be clear about what pupil or staff data, if any, is collected through use of the platform, how that data is stored, and how it aligns with UK GDPR and DfE guidance on digital tools used in schools.
Accessibility is worth raising early too, particularly for MATs with SEND provision across multiple schools, since video content needs to work for pupils using assistive technology and for teachers differentiating for a range of needs. These questions are best directed to the team during the scoping conversation for MAT-wide access or content licensing, since specific compliance details depend on the agreement under discussion rather than on a general routing page.
School and MAT-level access includes support for staff CPD, not just pupil-facing video content. Teaching staff get guidance on where each resource sits in the curriculum and how to use video effectively in a lesson rather than as a passive filler, which matters most in the early weeks of a subscription when staff are still learning what’s available.
For a single school, this CPD support is included in the standard subscription. For a MAT, onboarding can be coordinated centrally so that new schools joining the trust or new staff joining an existing school receive consistent onboarding, rather than each school figuring it out independently. Central coordination also means CPD content needs to be prepared only once per trust, rather than repeated school by school, which is one of the more concrete efficiency gains that MAT central teams report when consolidating from separate school subscriptions.
Details of what’s included at each level are covered on the relevant pathway page above, since CPD provision varies depending on whether you’re accessing LearningMole as a single school, a trust, or as an integration partner.
Choose the option that matches your role. Each route leads to a dedicated page with pricing, licensing terms, or trust-level detail relevant to that audience, so you’re not wading through content meant for someone else. If you’re still not sure which category fits, the comparison table further down this page sets the three routes side by side.
By selecting the path that mirrors your current setup, you ensure that every resource, policy document, and price point you review is directly actionable for your goals. You can upgrade or transition between plans seamlessly as your team grows.
LearningMole’s core library is built for children aged 4 to 11 and is mapped to the EYFS, KS1, and KS2 of the UK National Curriculum, so it’s primarily used by primary schools. Some secondary settings use it for transition support or foundational content in Year 7, but the depth of coverage is strongest for primary.
A school subscription licenses one school for its own use, with pricing and setup built for a single-school budget. MAT-wide access licenses an entire trust under one agreement, with consistent access across every academy and reporting visibility for the central team. Trusts with several schools generally find MAT-wide access simpler and better value than managing separate subscriptions per school.
Yes. Content licensing is a separate arrangement from school or MAT subscriptions, built specifically for EdTech platforms, publishers and courseware developers who want to integrate LearningMole video content into their own product. It covers commercial reuse rather than direct classroom access.
Yes. All core content is mapped to the UK National Curriculum across EYFS, KS1 and KS2, covering maths, English, science, history, geography and phonics. Curriculum alignment is built in from the planning stage of each resource rather than added afterwards.
Michelle Connolly is the founder of LearningMole, a UK educational platform, and a former primary school teacher with over 15 years of classroom experience. Her classroom background informs how LearningMole’s content is planned and reviewed.
Setup speed depends on the route. School subscriptions are designed for a single teacher or leader to set up without extra IT or procurement involvement. MAT-wide access and content licensing arrangements typically involve a short scoping conversation first, since trust and licensing terms need to be agreed upon before rollout.
Trial availability varies by pathway and is covered on each dedicated page. Details are best confirmed on the school subscription, MAT access or content licensing page relevant to your situation rather than here.
Single-academy trusts and small trusts with only one or two schools often sit closer to the school subscription route than full MAT-wide access, since the scale that makes trust-level licensing worthwhile usually kicks in with several schools rather than one or two. Starting with the school subscription page and raising trust status directly with the team is the fastest way to get a clear answer.
If your situation doesn’t map cleanly onto one of the three pathways above, it’s worth starting with the school subscription page and reaching out from there. The team can redirect you to the right agreement once they understand your setup.
If you already know which category fits, use the buttons above to go straight to pricing, licensing terms or trust-level detail. If you’re still deciding, it usually comes down to scale: one school’s classroom use points to the school subscription, more than one school under a single trust points to MAT-wide access, and integrating content into your own product means content licensing.
Each route runs on its own timeline too, a school subscription can be live within days, while MAT and licensing agreements are scoped around your trust’s academic year or your product’s integration schedule rather than a fixed sales calendar.
Want full access to LearningMole’s library of our videos, quizzes, and printable resources? See our subscription plans to unlock everything KS1 and KS2 teachers need for primary education.
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