About Third Space Learning
Our journey to provide schools with a personal maths tutor for every pupil who needs it
Making one-to-one tutoring more accessible for schools
One-to-one support has the power to change lives, but all too often it’s only accessible for the children whose families can afford it, and it’s often too expensive or inflexible for schools to provide directly.
In 2013, we set out to help schools close the maths attainment gap through affordable, easy-to-implement online one-to-one tutoring. Since then, we’re proud to have taught 170,000 online tutoring sessions to 170,000 pupils in 4,000 schools across the UK and US.
Today, we’re taking that experience further with Skye, our teacher-built AI maths tutor that makes truly unlimited one‑to‑one support affordable for every school.
Built by teachers on a decade of tutoring expertise
Every prompt, scaffold and hint that Skye gives is grounded in:
Insights and learnings from 2 million traditional maths tutoring sessions in schools
A curriculum of scaffolded teacher‑designed slides that follow the “I do, We do, You do” structure
Proven tutor moves – modelling, questioning, wait time and verbal reasoning – baked into Skye’s system prompt
Because Skye is trained on real classroom challenges, schools tell us “it feels just like working with a specialist tutor – only faster to schedule and far more affordable”.
Removing the barriers of traditional one-to-one support
Unlimited reach: one fixed low cost whole-school licence covers every pupil who needs it.
No per-session fees: schools no longer need to balance who needs support with what they can afford
Flexible scheduling: sessions can be scheduled to start every 5 minutes or can be launched on-demand
Engaging AI tutoring: not just a generic chatbot; pupils and Skye talk through problems out loud
Teacher‑built & curriculum‑aligned: the same lessons and pedagogical approach we’ve used since 2013
Our story so far…
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Meet the team
Our academic team
Candida Crawford
Chief Learning Officer
A former teacher with over a decade of experience and a master’s degree in Educational Psychology, Candida oversees the curriculum, pupil experience and how we train our AI tutor.
Terri Higgins
Learning Content Lead
Terri focuses on tutor quality and ensuring AI maths tutor Skye delivers the most effective lessons possible. She has 10 years’ experience in primary teaching and is passionate about building a love of learning.
Martin Noon
Content Author
Martin taught maths in secondary schools between 2000 and 2022. He is now working as a freelance mathematics educational content author for Third Space Learning.
Paul Coffey
Secondary Content Resource Lead
A former secondary maths teacher, Paul makes sure our secondary resource library is full of valuable free resources.
Hannah Searle
Primary Content Resource Lead
After leaving teaching in 2019, Hannah joined Third Space Learning to oversee our primary resource production.
More friendly faces…
Tom Hooper
CEO and Founder
Tom founded Third Space Learning in 2013 and continues to drive the company’s social mission to close the attainment gap.
Alice Morris
Chief Product Officer
Alice ensures we’re developing a product that is valuable and effective as possible for the students and teachers that use it.
Bryan Tookey
Chief Operations Officer
Bryan ensures the team have everything they need to support our schools and pupils each day.
Rob Langman
Chief Commercial Officer
Rob works closely with our academic and school-facing teams to ensure we’re delivering the best, most effective programme possible.
Gianni Mazza
Technical Architect
Gianni is the architect of the full service Third Space Learning platform and A.I. Tutor, Skye.
Sophie Bessemer
Head of Content
With 20 years’ education publishing experience, Sophie makes sure we’re creating content teachers need and love.
Lottie Bates
Head of Marketing
Lottie helps to make sure that as many schools as possible know about the support we’re able to provide.
James Gregson
Head of New Schools
Looking to sign up to Third Space Learning? James is on hand to discuss your school’s needs and how we can help.
Jenni Hoy
Head of Customer Support
Jenni is responsible for giving our brilliant customers the best possible experience we can.