Ten minutes a day. Done before the kettle boils.
A SATS LION session is short on purpose. Here is exactly what happens when your child opens the app.
A session, step by step
Every quest follows the same simple rhythm, whether your child plays at home or in class.
Open the daily quest
Leo picks up yesterday's streak and sets today's goal: ten questions, ten minutes. Turning up becomes the habit, not the battle.
Adaptive questions find the gap
Every answer tunes the next one to exactly the right difficulty. The engine leans into the strands your child is shakiest on and eases off the ones they have mastered.
Instant feedback explains the why
Right or wrong, Leo shows what the question was really testing, in plain Year 6 English, the moment it lands. A miss becomes the most useful part of the session.
Streaks and XP bring them back
Correct answers light up XP, a longer streak and Leo's roar. Small wins, every day, are what make tomorrow's session sell itself.
Grown-ups see the picture
Each session is logged to a plain-English parent report and, for schools, a class dashboard, so the right nudge happens before the mock does.
Why ten minutes works
The format is a deliberate choice, not a shortcut. A few things are doing the heavy lifting under the cheerful surface.
Short beats long
Ten minutes is long enough to make real progress and short enough that a tired Year 6 will say yes to it. A daily habit you keep beats an hour you dread and skip.
Spaced repetition
A topic your child wobbles on comes back days later, just as it is about to fade. Getting it right at the edge of forgetting is what makes it stick for the test.
Tied to the test
Every question maps to the KS2 SPaG statutory framework and is human-reviewed, so nothing your child practises falls outside what the real paper asks.
Kind by design
Built to the UK Children's Code: effort-framed, opt-in social, no loot boxes and no loss-framing. A wobble feels like part of the game, never a failure.
How Leo coaches
Leo is the difference between a worksheet and a quest. He greets your child by name, celebrates a good run, and rallies after a tricky one, so a wobble feels like part of the game rather than a failure.
His feedback is built around the why: not just “correct”, but the rule underneath it, phrased the way a patient Year 6 teacher would. Over a few weeks that turns “I don't get semicolons” into “oh, both halves have to be full sentences”.
What grown-ups see
While your child plays, the learning is quietly logged so the adults can help at the right moment. Parents get a weekly, plain-English read on every strand with the few topics worth a nudge; see the parents page. Teachers get the whole cohort at a glance on a class dashboard built for progress meetings and SLT; see the schools page.
Questions about how it works
What is in a daily quest?
A focused run of around ten SPaG questions across spelling, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary, pitched at the right level for your child and finished off with their streak and a roar from Leo.
What kind of questions are they?
Multiple-choice questions written in the formats the KS2 paper uses, so the practice mirrors the real test. Every one is checked by a human against the statutory framework before any child sees it.
How does it adapt to my child?
A spaced-repetition engine tracks every answer and decides what to show next. It leans into the strands your child is shakiest on, brings tricky topics back before they fade, and eases off the ones they have mastered.
What happens when they get one wrong?
Leo explains what the question was really testing, in plain Year 6 English, the moment it lands. There is no penalty and no telling-off, just the rule underneath, so a miss turns into the most useful part of the session.
Can they play at school and at home?
Yes. It runs in the browser and on phones and tablets, so a child can practise on a school Chromebook and pick up the same streak at the kitchen table later.
See it for yourself
Start the first quest free, no card needed, and watch Leo do the coaching.