For colleges and schools
Resit groups are big, attendance is patchy and confidence is low. We built for exactly that.
Students without a grade 4 must keep studying English after 16. Foothold gives your English team short practice that students will actually open, and a dashboard that shows who is practising and who has gone quiet.
The problem you know
The same hurdles, every September.
Big groups
Twenty-plus students at very different levels, one teacher, and not enough time to mark everything.
Low attendance
Students who've already “failed” often switch off, and you only find out when it's too late.
Low confidence
Red-pen feedback confirms what they already believe. They need to see themselves improve.
For your students
Practice that feels like an app they'd choose.
- ✓ Fresh texts every time, written to be interesting to 16 year olds
- ✓ Examiner-style marking with kind, specific feedback
- ✓ Answers can be spoken, which helps students who find writing hard
- ✓ Short mode for a quick win, longer questions as they grow
- ✓ A road-to-a-pass meter in place of grade predictions
For your team
See it. Set it. Show it.
Teacher dashboard
Class groups, last active, answers this week and movement towards a pass. An alert lists anyone who hasn't logged in for 7 days or more.
Set-work codes
Create a task, get a short code like RAIN42 and give it to your class. See who has done it and how they got on.
Termly impact report
A report for each class showing students active, answers, skills improved and movement. Written for a head of English to justify the spend. In development.
Easy onboarding
Join by class code, college email sign-in, and bulk upload from a CSV. No parent account needed for 16+. In development.
Data protection
Your students' data stays yours.
Your college is the data controller and we act as the processor. We're preparing a pack for your data protection lead.
- ✓ A data processing agreement
- ✓ A DPIA template you can adapt
- ✓ Student data is stored in a London data centre
- ✓ Voice is never stored. It's turned into text on the student's device, and only text is sent to our AI provider
- ✓ We're confirming the AI provider's retention and no-training terms before any pilot
- ✓ Safeguarding concerns go to a named human, see how
Proving it works
We want you to check our marking, not take our word for it.
1. Marking check
We compare our marking with experienced teacher marking, and share the results with you.
2. One-class pilot
One resit class for a term, compared with a similar class not using Foothold.
3. Case study
What we learn goes into a short case study you can use with your leadership team.
A quote from a head of English will go here once the pilot has run.
A quote from a resit teacher will go here once the pilot has run.
Need something to share with whoever holds the budget?
Pilot it with one class.
Tell us about your resit group and we'll get back to you.