We are making SATS revision feel less like a fight.

Ask most parents of a Year 6 child which part of revision they dread, and a lot of them will land on the same answer: spelling, punctuation and grammar. Maths has a method you can follow. Reading you can do together on the sofa. But SPaG is full of rules that adults half-remember and terms that have changed since they were at school. Fronted adverbials, subordinating conjunctions, the subjunctive mood: it is the part of the curriculum parents most often feel they cannot help with, even when they very much want to.

The result is familiar in a lot of homes. Revision becomes a negotiation, then a stand-off, then a worksheet abandoned halfway down the page. The child feels got at, the adult feels useless, and nobody learns very much. We started SATS LION because that nightly fight is not a problem with the child or the parent. It is a problem with the format.

So we asked a simpler question. What if the revision was something a child actually wanted to open? Not a worksheet dressed up with a cartoon, but a proper game-first experience built around short, satisfying sessions. That is the heart of SATS LION.

Leo the Lion is the coach. Every day he sets a ten-minute quest: a focused run of SPaG challenges pitched at the right level, with streaks to keep, progress to see and small wins to collect along the way. Ten minutes is deliberate. It is long enough to make real progress and short enough that a tired Year 6 will say yes to it, most days, without a row. The work underneath is serious; the wrapper is genuinely fun. We think that is the only combination that survives contact with a family on a school night.

We are a small, independent UK team, and SATS LION Ltd is registered in England and Wales. We are brand new: this is the start of the journey rather than a victory lap, and we would rather tell you that plainly than dress it up. What we can promise is the standard we hold ourselves to. We are building this carefully and ethically, because it is made for children sitting a national assessment, and that deserves to be taken seriously.

Being small is part of the point. It lets us sweat the details that matter: whether a question is genuinely aligned to the statutory framework, whether the feedback actually teaches rather than just marks, and whether a nine-year-old finds the experience kind. We would rather do one thing properly than ten things loudly.

Meet the founders, the two brothers behind SATS LION.

A few principles shape every decision we make. They are not marketing lines; they are the constraints we have chosen to build inside.

We are starting deliberately narrow: Year 6 SPaG, done properly. That is the slice where the pain is sharpest for families and where a focused tool can make the clearest difference before the national assessments. Getting that one thing right, for both home and the classroom, matters more to us than rushing to cover everything.

From there we plan to expand carefully, guided by what teachers and families actually tell us works, rather than by how much ground we can claim. We are equally committed to parents revising at the kitchen table (B2C) and to schools running it on classroom Chromebooks (B2B), and we will keep it honest, kind and curriculum-aligned at every step. If you would like to follow along, build with us, or ask a question, we would genuinely like to hear from you at hello@satslion.com, and schools can reach our team directly at schools@satslion.com.