Classroom Secrets Reviews 33

Gemma was excellent and sorted out my query immediately!

Mailed them to highlight a mistake in a Maths question. Customer service team responded promptly and communicated internally to fix the question. Within 2 days it was done. Would highly recommend the platform and their team.

Prompt action and response, what I had failed to locate was forwarded as an attachment, meaning I did not have to go back to the website and search for it again

Super!!
Great range of very useful resources. The Maths and Science I have used regularly to supplement other resources we have as a school. The Maths being aligned to White Rose is really helpful. The slides which talk about Maths and Science in the real world are a great addition.
I also recently had a issue with a powerpoint not downloading but received an email with a link to the powerpoint and it was fixed on the main website within a day! Wonderful service. Thank you!

Really fast customer service and trouble shooting. Lovely team and happy to talk to a real person :) thanks Gemma

so many good resources including our SEN children. Having the answers helps them to self evaluate their own learning.

As a Y6 teacher, I have been using Classroom Secrets for a year now. The materials are constantly being updated and are relevant and challenging for students. I mainly use maths resources to provide additional challenge beyond what is offered by White Rose, but I have also explored other subject areas and have found lots of useful resources. Communication is good, and the site hosts are proactive in listening to feedback. Highly recommended to save time for busy teachers and offer another level of challenge to students linked to UK curriculum. The cost for an annual subscription is thoroughly worth it; I got fed up searching free resources and finding them riddled with errors or confusing for students.

Fantastic resources. Great for planning ahead or those last minute panics!

Great resources! Always well thought out and planned.

The range of resources and value for money are spot on. I am able to modify them and use them to suit my class and pupils.
The resources look good and have enough dual coding ideas and reduced reading elements to make them easily accessible for all.

I have used CS resources for some time now. The Maths Power Points and worksheets are fabulous, they are structured to ensure the children secure knowledge and skills and mix fluency with problem solving and reasoning. The grammar resources explain concepts in an easy to understand way and provide opportunities for application. The new history resources are of the same high standard and I am looking forward to using them in the near future.

Classroom Secrets has so many resources! It’s great.
There’s always something fresh reflecting current topics and they react to times of the year.
Thank you for giving my children great activities, and me some time.

I just wanted to say a huge thank you for the incredible improvements to your website. As I was preparing for the new school term, I was genuinely impressed by how intuitive and user-friendly everything has become. The small touches—like being able to see which resources I've already downloaded—make a big difference when juggling lesson planning with everything else on our plates.

Your platform continues to be a lifeline for so many of us in education. It’s reassuring to know that someone out there truly understands what teachers need and is working hard to support us. You help make the job feel doable, even on the tough days. Thank you for having our backs.

Classroom secrets save me so much time - time I can spend with my friends and family instead of planning and preparing resources. There is a great range of resources on their website and it helped my class prepare for their SATS. I will certainly continue to use them for the next year.

Great website for educators. Hundreds of resources, well-differentiated. Easy to access and well worth the membership fee for the itme and effort it saves me.

I love how I can easily find differentiated activities for extension tasks or scaffolding support which link seamlessly to WRM. The choice of activity is such that there are plenty of options for same day keep up and homework. I also use the GPS activities to support my teaching and to allow the children to re-enforce their understanding. Definitely worth the subscription fee!

Easy to find detailed, relevant resources.

Fantastic for teachers. Has a wide range of resources available for all ages starting from KS1 to upper KS2. The new website design is really easy to use and looks fantastic.

As a full-time teacher, I was a subscriber to Classroom Secrets from approximately 2021-2024. I used it mainly for maths, as the differentiated CS lesson-by-lesson maths resources are some of the best out there, although the Classroom Secrets' resources for other subjects are decent too.

However, at some point during my subscription, Classroom Secrets had a change of policy: previously, a subscriber could download as many resources as they wished in one go (and although this might seem overly generous, equally it would have taken one subscriber a HUGE amount of time - many hours if not days or weeks - to visit different CS webpages and press download / save each time in order to obtain resources for just one subject let alone EVERYTHING from CS. Therefore, the likelihood of subscribers doing this and 'gaming the system' would be very low indeed).

But then Classroom Secrets changed their download policy, and instead they now limit subscribers to 100 downloads per month.

Just as a different former subscriber wrote here on Trustpilot a couple of years ago (and I note that nobody from Classroom Secrets has replied to that comment, unlike how they have replied to most other comments here recently), it is highly impractical trying to be a full-time teacher and seeking to use Classroom Secrets website every day / every week to download resources ready for a short sequence of maths lessons, let alone any other subjects which you might wish to also use Classroom Secrets for.

Just prior to me cancelling my full-member subscription at the end of last year (for this very reason of the impractical download limits), I emailed Classroom Secrets to ask them about the change of their download policy.
But they never replied to my email despite me having paid for a full membership subscription every month for about 3 years. So I cancelled my subscription a few days later.

In terms of downloads, it is true that Classroom Secrets offers a small random smattering of free resources, which may or may not be of use to teachers (although depending on your year group as a teacher, I would argue that you'll probably only find about 15% of these free resources useful at maximum because they are so randomly spread through Foundation to Year 6 subjects).

But in terms of the impracticalities of the paid-for full membership subscription limit of 100 downloads per month, as an example for just one lesson (eg, 'teaching Year 5 about prime numbers tomorrow'), you would definitely want to download maths 'varied fluency' questions from one CS webpage and the maths 'reasoning / problem-solving' questions from another CS webpage, whilst the 'classroom discussion' example from its own webpage would serve as an excellent warm-up or extension.
That is already 3 of your 100 downloads for the month.

For that same one maths lesson, you might also want to download the relevant Powerpoint slides (which can at least just be shown on an IWB without the need to download these PPT slides), and at a push maybe a supporting activity from its own webpage to help lower-ability learners and a homework extension from its own webpage.

So it is at least 3 downloads per maths lesson, and maybe as many as 5-6 downloads, EVERY DAY just for one Maths lesson.
(And you HAVE to click the 'download' button on the maths main topic's webpage, eg about a topic about prime numbers, as you are not allowed otherwise to even view an individual lesson 'varied fluency webpage' for one single lesson).

Per day, that is at least 3 downloads for one maths lesson.
Extrapolated to one month, that is at least 60-66 downloads every (20-22 working days) month just for maths lessons, even if you don't download accompanying lesson slides, supporting activities or homework extension activities.

Which only leaves full-time classroom teachers with about 30-35 more downloads from the Classroom Secrets website for ALL other subjects that they need to teach that month.
Every month.

As a final note, if you want to use the Classroom Secrets website for just half of its available Maths resources (or alternatively Classroom Secrets' resources for just one or two other subjects) then it might seem a fair chance for what you pay.

You'll only be able to download the equivalent of 3-4 worksheets / Powerpoint lesson slides / topic activities / SPAG resources etc every day.

But should you require more than 3-4 worksheets every day, then you will need to supplement your Classroom Secrets full-membership subscription with a subscription to a different teaching resources website as well.

As per my email to Classroom Secrets (which never received a reply despite me being a long-standing, full-member subscriber), I would recommend that they increase their limit to at least 200 downloads per month instead.

Cheers.

Wide variety of resources for a range of learners at different levels across school