The EverLearner - Experts in PE Teaching

Back in 2014, James Simms, Founder of The EverLearner Ltd, creator of TheEverLearner.com (launched 2017) and ExamSimulator (launched 2021) began to realise that his experiences and, dare we say, talent, had a place in the world. James had developed a solid career as a teacher of PE specialising in academic teaching. Specifically, James had honed “the art of the explanation” of concepts to students as well as becoming highly skilled at course management. James recently said:

The EverLearner team provides teachers with an opportunity to blend their analogue classroom with the very best of the internet in a highly-focused and specialised way. The service is not an alternative to a classroom but, rather, a service that provides teachers an alternative to the traditional classroom model.  The aim would never be to replace the classroom teacher, simply to enhance their teaching. 

Many schools use the platform as a homework tool, allowing for truly personalised homework depending on each student’s areas of strength and weakness - this is particularly easy to do due to the detailed analytics automatically provided by the platform. Each student can be assigned a different task with a simple click of a button.

Other teachers use the platform for flipped learning.  Students watch the tutorials and complete short mastery quizzes at home and come to class ready to put their learning into practice, providing more classroom time for application and advanced skills, rather than simply the delivery of information. Crucially, this also allows all students to learn at their own pace - in class you cannot pause, rewind or replay your teacher!

Some also use it for blended learning within the classroom. Again the benefits come down to personalised learning and allowing students to learn at their own pace. The teacher can also know exactly what each student does and doesn’t know simply by looking at the dashboard. This makes targeted intervention plans and additional support easy to implement, as well as the tracking of student progress.

When the business was first established, The EverLearner worked with around 370 schools, predominantly based in the UK.  In March 2020, all of the services were offered completely free to help students and teachers during the exceptionally challenging lockdown due to Coronavirus (Covid-19).  This was achieved with the full backing of their paying customers and as a thank you for their support, these ‘Founder Schools’ now receive a lifetime discount on their subscriptions. Six months later, when The EverLearner re-commercialised, the number of schools choosing to stay with them had more than doubled, with many citing not only the quality of the resource as a reason for staying, but also the exceptional customer support provided. (Read the reviews)

Today, over 950 schools and colleges worldwide subscribe to The EverLearner, helping in excess of 200,000 students with their learning every single day.

View some case studies and testimonials from schools and colleges subscribing to The EverLearner. (Read the case studies)

In early 2021 the team launched the world’s first ExamSimulator. On the main EverLearner platform, students can sit tests and end of unit tests (called checkpoints).

The revolutionary ExamSimulator, however, is different. It is an online exam setting, writing, marking and analytics environment. It is specifically focussed on exam-board content and skills for GCSE, A-level, BTEC, Cambridge National, Cambridge Technical and VCERT. 

This game-changing exam software has been designed from the ground up by The EverLearner's team of teachers, for teachers and for their students. Based not only on sound pedagogy, but also on the vast classroom experience of the team working behind the scenes, ExamSimulator guarantees to boost student grades and save valuable teacher time. Read more about ExamSimulator.