What is Atom Prime?
Atom Prime is the UK's leading KS2 teaching and learning platform. Combining teacher-made content with world-leading adaptive technology, Atom Prime saves teachers time, allows at-a-glance analysis of student performance and improves pupils’ confidence and topic mastery.
Loved by more than 1,000 UK schools, Atom takes the admin out of teaching and lets teachers do what they do best: teach.
With automated marking, access to exceptional KS2 content across 5 subjects, differentiated resources and on-demand support, Atom Prime accelerates efficiency and empowers teachers to achieve their full potential.
Best of all, Atom Prime is completely free - forever!
Why Atom?
- Create homework and lessons in seconds across English, maths, science, verbal and non-verbal reasoning.
- More than 90,000 questions and 800+ hours of video and text fully aligned to the English national curriculum
- Manage mixed-ability classes with adaptive learning
- Save time with automatic marking
- Data-driven insight into student's strengths, areas for development and opportunities for intervention
- Provide in-class support with helpsheets and video tutorials
- Prepare pupils for end-of-year tests and entrance exams
Educational Impact
 Company | Business Name: Atom Learning Ltd HQ Location: United Kingdom Founded: 2018 |
| Age Range | 5-7, 8-10, 11-13 |
 Features | Adaptive Learning AssessmentHomeworkTeacher ContentStatisticsNational Curriculum Personalised PathwaysAutomated MarkingLearning ResourcesAudio And Video FeedbackTeacher DashboardStudent And Guardian DashboardStudent DataTeacher DataStudent FeedbackPersonalised LearningParent Dashboard |
 Languages | English |
 Accessibility | Robust features |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy PolicyGDPR |
 Requirements | Desktop - MacDesktop - WindowsDesktop - ChromebookDesktop - Linux |
 Set Up | 24-hours |
 Training | Live OnlineWebinarsDocumentationVideos Our Onboarding team provide bespoke webinars to all schools joining Atom Prime. These are recorded and can be shared with wider school network. We also have a knowledge bank with hundreds of FAQs and how-to videos that can be accessed 24/7. |
 Support | EmailFAQs/ForumPhone Support All schools considering Atom Prime will receive support from our dedicated Teacher Success team. From demos to data integration, our experienced team is on-hand to support you every step of the way. You will receive:
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| Home Learning | Parent Access School must create the account. Atom Prime Parent Portal enables parents and guardians to easily monitor their child’s progress, and review homework and lessons. Atom Prime can also be integrated with our at-home learning platform, Atom Nucleus, to enhance a child’s full potential. |
 Tags | KS2Lesson BuilderHomework BuilderAutomatic MarkingEnglishMathsScienceNon-verbal reasoningVerbal reasoning11+ISEB |
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Atom Prime Reviews
from 28 Verified Reviews
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Nov 2022
Amazing resource with explanatory videos and explanations for pupils to refer back to during exercises.
Mr Masters found Atom Prime:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Homework marking”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap
- Moderately provides school data“Easier to identify class weaknesses in topics studied.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“Haven't used the teaching/lesson features.”
- Slightly builds student knowledge
Debbie
Head of Primary
Used Atom Prime weekly for 0–3 months
Oct 2022
Free platform with excellent service and follow-up
Debbie found Atom Prime:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Providing revision/catch-up materials for new students. Self-marked homework!”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap“Unable to tell yet”
- Does not significantly provide school data“Good analysis in the transcripts”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“Too early to tell”
- Moderately builds student knowledge
Oct 2022
Atom is a fantastic free resource that saves teachers hours of planning
Sarah Brown found Atom Prime:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Children having their work marked immediately Atom tailoring questions to suit ability”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap“I haven't been using it long enough to be able to comment effectively”
- Significantly provides school data“We can collate how many children are accessing homework along with their ability when answering questions”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“Pre set questions”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“By giving support/answers when marking to help children's understanding”
Oct 2022
The concept of having to get the parents involved is quite an administrative and complicated barrier to what we need
Katie Donaldson found Atom Prime:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“Using time when Verbal reasoning tests might have to be worked through, to have them on the computer”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“Allowing less able to work through areas of need to pull up their attainment”
- Slightly provides school data“We are not using the data on a full school basis”
- Does not significantly improve teaching efficiency“It allows us to use prep time more effectively”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“We are using it to give experience of reasoning”
Rhys
Teacher
Used Atom Prime weekly for 0–3 months
Oct 2022
Useful platform, incredibly helpful staff (shout out to Michael) and easy to use for pupils and staff
Rhys found Atom Prime:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Marking and planning homework”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap“Too soon to tell, but promising so far!”
- Slightly provides school data“Too soon to tell, but promising so far!”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“More time for other commitments”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Full curriculum available at their fingertips with adaptive questions - great!”
Rowan Griffiths
Head of Education
Used Atom Prime weekly for 4-6 months
Oct 2022
Ease, efficiency and usability.
Rowan Griffiths found Atom Prime:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“It allows the consolidation of learning across a significant number of feeder schools where the players spend most of their education week.”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap
- Slightly provides school data
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“It allows a bespoke approach to differentiated teaching.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Curriculum maps vary greatly between a single cohort. Atom Prime allows targeted interventions across common themes.”
Robin Flack
Headteacher
Used Atom Prime daily for 0–3 months
Oct 2022
Simple and easy to use. The children are engaged by it and the parents really appreciate seeing what their children are learning in school. A very valuable tool.
Robin Flack found Atom Prime:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“The fact the work is tailored to meet individual pupil's needs and allows the child to receive immediate feedback in a safe, engaging platform.”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“It's early days for us but the work already is beginning to support children who are below age-related expectations to have additional practice in areas they are less confident with.”
- Significantly provides school data“Very quick and easy to see children who are accessing Atom learning and the progress they are making.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“We haven't been using it enough yet to comment.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“This has been superb for consolidating what the children are learning in school.”
Glenda
Form 6 Teacher and English Teacher
Used Atom Prime weekly for 0–3 months
Sep 2022
AMAZING resource with clever ideas and accessible to all ranges and makes life simpler
Glenda found Atom Prime:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“No marking!”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“Targeted approach for weaker ones easily accessible”
- Significantly provides school data“Easy to read data spreadsheets”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Clear videos and instructions and 'cheat sheets'”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Clear instructions and videos to help”
Chris Robinson
Digital Transformation Coordinator
Used Atom Prime weekly for 0–3 months
Sep 2022
Honestly, from the platform itself - not without its fault but, truly, remarkable - to the incredible support from Michael, I would not hesitate to recommend the platform to anyone willing to listen and absolutely plan to make it part of my professional portfolio and priorities moving forward.
Chris Robinson found Atom Prime:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“The user-friendliness and ease of which staff can engage with the platform, never mind the powerful adaptive software that tailors for and challenges all pupils, makes this a no-brainer in regards reducing teacher workload and significantly increasing teacher insight and satisfaction.”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap“Given we are at the start of our journey with Atom Prime, it would be premature to talk of the impact I have seen and evidenced in regards attainment. That said, I have every confidence it will prove valuable once the systems are embedded and more data can provide us a deeper, richer outlook.”
- Slightly provides school data“Again, given we are taking our first steps, we have little data on which to comment. Worth noting that, in our excellent onboarding discussion, the data features looked like an incredibly intuitive and exciting feature, one we are looking forward to implementing more fully once we have a greater cohort of data.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Previously, we would have to independently source tasks in each area, compile them into a Word document or PDF, print, stick into books and email to parents, then mark individually each week. To say that Atom has provided more efficient - and higher quality - answers - to, literally, every step of the process, would be a massive understatement.”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“Forgive my repetition, but this is something I would like to gauge more over time. That said, I have been highly encouraged by the level of challenge Atom Prime is providing and hope that this will reveal itself in the work we do in class.”
Andrew Pilkington
Director of Learning and Teaching
Used Atom Prime daily for 4-6 months
Sep 2022
Brilliant support service, specifically Erin McGrath
Andrew Pilkington found Atom Prime:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Marking and assessment”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Weaker pupils seeing where they went wrong with help videos”
- Significantly provides school data“Weakness showed in Maths by year group”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Quick raw data on where pupils go wrong”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Help sheets and videos excellent”
Melanie Trevelyan
Teacher
Used Atom Learning daily for 1-2 years
Jul 2022
Some tweaks to make Atom easier to use, grouping could be smoother
Melanie Trevelyan found Atom Learning:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Self marking so I can review results and easily identify strengths and weaknesses.”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap“No”
- Moderately provides school data“Easy to analyse group results”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Can group children and set specific work”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Videos and self help sheets”
Jun 2022
Great resource to prepare for the assessments coming up and a really effective and well managed medium for teachers/ parents and tutors to support the children on their learning journey.
Mariam found Atom Learning:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Homework assignements can be set on Atom, limiting marking/ grading. Suitably prepares for ISEB exams without requiring printing/ preparing of resources.”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“Algorithm is allows chidlren to work at their pace/ level without teacher setting one level; Teachers are able to set appropriate level tasks for children on individual basis”
- Significantly provides school data“Used to write reports on how well their homework assignments are; how they are fairing preparing for their ISEBs and beyond; what topics to consolidate and review further; where children are being complacent and where they are positioned”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Allows me to review data and efficiently check pupil progress as all computerised. Allows me to prepare other resources and allocate my time effectively to other subjects where needed.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Videos for trickier concepts such as nets of cubes, students have found really helpful. They are explicitly clear and show visuals. The helpsheets are a great revision tool / help feature for students”
Jun 2022
I love it for homework but I would remain cautious about online learning platforms as a 'replacement' for teachers. I worry it could make some people complacent. But, used properly, it is an excellent tool.
Ricki found Atom Learning:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Homework. It's a phenomenal platform for homework and was invaluable for lessons during lockdown.”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap“I have no specific data for this.”
- Slightly provides school data“It is easier to access homework data but that's all I use it for and we don't really track homework data.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Streamlines how we set homework.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Helps with homework which is consolidation.”
Jun 2022
Atom Learning is a fantastic platform for providing differentiated support to pupils. Questions are engaging and well presented. The support provided by the Atom Learning team is also excellent!
Mark Goldhawk found Atom Learning:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“The support videos provided within Atom Learning promote independent learning and allow the teacher to target their time more effectively in lessons. The automatic marking also allows teachers to spend more of their time planning for effective learning opportunities.”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“The adaptive algorithm ensures all pupils are challenged and provides instant feedback on the areas for improvement. This analysis of pupil attainment allows teacher to target specific topics of skills to reduce the attainment gap.”
- Significantly provides school data“We use Atom Learning as part our ISEB preparation. The mock tests provide informative data on how our preparations are going and where further support is required.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Atom Learning is fully digital and resources are easily created and distrbuted through the platform. Pupils can access the learning activities and work at their own pace, on differentiated questions, allowing teachers to spend more time supporting and extending groups or individual pupils within the lesson.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“The support videos and worked through examples allow children to reflect and find out for themselves about how some questions can be solved. This is particularly valuable when setting homework tasks on Atom Learning. With the adaptive algorithm, or by manually selecting the questions, teachers can increase the difficulty of questions gradually to support with scaffolding within the lesson.”
Jun 2022
This is a great platform which I recommend to all children that I tutor as well teachers in other schools.
Samantha Porter found Atom Learning:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Reducing children's printed homework, great for differentiating if required.”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“Children can consolidate learning through scaffolded questions and the highers can be stretched.”
- Significantly provides school data“Informing planning”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Helps us to further inform planning and target specific areas of need.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Consolidate learning”
Jun 2022
Lovely staff and a really useful platform for teachers.
Beth Dinsmore found Atom Learning:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Online work reduces marking load.”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“We use Atom learning to revise core concepts taught in class. This could be to help low ability children with extra practice or to stretch high ability children with extra work using Atom's algorithm.”
- Significantly provides school data“We look at results after every piece of work completed on Atom and use this to sign post when intervention is needed with children in the class.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“The videos help reduce time planning lessons.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Children are engaged with online learning and if we use the algorithm it stretches every child according to their ability level.”
Jun 2022
I think it has adapted the reasoning in my school and improved the standard too. Being able to have a good quality resource for year 3 and then differentiate all the way through to year 6 is very fantastic. Having the statistics and data to hand straight away is superb for teachers, pupils and parents alike.
Neil Driscoll found Atom Learning:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Preparation of lessons is simple.”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap
- Significantly provides school data“Provides data for Maths, English and reasoning classes. Also mock tests are used for year 5 and 6 which provide valuable data for progression of the pupils.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“I think it can. Using the data you can then decide the best way forward for the pupils learning.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“It depends on the subject but the videos Atom provide are fabulous and really can improve the pupils knowledge.”
May 2022
Excellent product, resources and superb team that are easy to contact and always quick to respond
Tomas Lewis found Atom Learning:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Automatically marked homework tasks. Ability to set adaptive tasks”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“Helps pupils to workmate their own level which increases confidence and familiarity with question types”
- Significantly provides school data“SAS scores are a good indicator of pupil ability”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Homework can be set and graded in minutes. Data provided. Y homework tasks and tests is very easy to collate”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Pupils enjoy the Atom home platform”
May 2022
Really think it's a great resource
Naomi found Atom Learning:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Homework is marked and analysed”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“Some children access the work more readily online”
- Significantly provides school data“Not yet”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Good examples and feedback”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Improved reasoning”
May 2022
I've used it as a parent and as a teacher - it is engaging and responsive. Children like it and will use it.
Jill found Atom Learning:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“automated marking and data collection”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“The explanations given are very helpful - however, we find the videos too fast to be helpful.”
- Moderately provides school data“provide VR and NVR data”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“It is quick to set up lessons and the work is challenging”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Exposure to new ideas”
Emma Foster
Head of Maths and ICT
Used Atom Learning daily for 1-2 years
May 2022
Very good recourse for homework, lessons and data
Emma Foster found Atom Learning:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Reduced marking and quick data”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“Progress made through differentiated questions”
- Moderately provides school data“Used to monitor progress in subjects”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“Videos are clear”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“NVR videos help children know what to look for and strategies”
May 2022
It's a great resource.
Dan Maitland found Atom Learning:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Very efficient system for setting class and homework. Easy to analyse results immediately there for you.”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap
- Significantly provides school data“We compare Atom data with CAT data to ascertain credibility of CAT data. We use Atom mock tests for end of year assessments which inform setting for the next year.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency
- Significantly builds student knowledge“The explanations after each question that children complete act as tailored teaching.”
May 2022
Dean Paice found Atom Learning:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“It is good for children to practise a skill while you support others; saves coming up with questions”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“Children regularly accessing Atom tend to have a better understanding/reasoning for the skills”
- Slightly provides school data
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“It allows other children to practise a skill while you focus on others”
- Moderately builds student knowledge
May 2022
Excellent website and usability. Kids often more keen to work on a screen than in books. Only thing I would say is that the scores don't always make sense.
Emma Howe found Atom Learning:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“marks tests for you”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap“higher achievers who are keen use the platform to improve exam technique”
- Significantly provides school data“mock pre-test results”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“allows us to see gaps and set homeworks accordingly”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“grammar practice”
May 2022
It's so comprehensive, I've never seen something that compares!
Kate found Atom Learning:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“It saves so much time on marking and analysing student performance is made significantly easier than doing so manually.”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Being adaptive, it enables each student to have a personalised learning journey, which is fantastic!”
- Significantly provides school data“We now have the same level of insight on homework attainment as we do for exams.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“It just saves so much time and the content is really engaging so students enjoy their homework more.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge
