Primary maths tutoring programmes

Q: How does the primary school maths tutoring work?

For every pupil you want to support, you choose a programme to suit their needs and can re-order the online maths lessons at any point. Sessions are scheduled to suit your timetable and can also be launched on-demand for additional practice. Skye, our AI maths tutor, works through a curriculum of KS2 maths lessons created by our team of qualified teachers, using formative assessment to adapt the pace and help pupils learn at their own pace.

Q: How has Skye been trained to teach primary maths?

Skye applies effective teaching strategies to boost progress and deepen understanding, such as modelling, waiting, rephrasing, scaffolding and encouraging verbal reasoning. Skye has also been trained to build confidence and help students learn in a positive education environment, including building a good rapport right from the first lesson, building motivation, relating to interests and making lessons fun and engaging. For Year 6 pupils, Skye has been trained to work through SATs-style maths questions and help pupils with exam preparation.Skye uses diagnostic and formative assessment to adapt pitch, pace, and teaching style according to each student’s needs. Because teaching is targeted to each child’s gaps, students make accelerated progress and find lessons more engaging and fun.

Q: How is the learning personalised?

Skye uses diagnostic and formative assessment to adapt pitch, pace, and teaching style according to each student’s needs. Because the one to one teaching is targeted to each child’s gaps, students make accelerated progress and find lessons more engaging and fun.

Q: How much does Skye cost?

You'll receive yearly access to unlimited primary maths tuition for Years 4-6 for one low cost depending on school size: £3,500 for one-form entry primary schools, £5,000 for two-form entry, and £5,000 for three-form+ entry.

Q: Can I try it for free?

Yes, we encourage all primary school teachers to trial a free AI maths tutoring lesson with Skye. To learn more and set this up, please get in touch today.

Q: When is maths tuition from Skye available?

Unlike other primary tutors, Skye’s schedule is fully flexible. School-scheduled sessions can take place at any time before, during or after school. Ad-hoc, on-demand lessons can take place at any time, meaning pupils can learn from school or home. While other primary tutors have limited availability, you can be safe in the knowledge that Skye is available whenever and wherever you need support.

Q: Is Skye’s primary maths tutoring suitable for students with special educational needs?

Yes, Skye can support SEN students. Please discuss your students’ specific needs with us so we can tailor the education and tutoring experience.

Q: Is Skye available for primary schools across the UK?

Yes, all maths tutoring takes place online meaning Skye can teach maths to students in primary schools from West London to Yorkshire.

Q: How is Skye different from a private tutor?

Private tutors, including private maths tutors, offer personalised one-to-one tuition for individual students to boost progress and teach maths in a fun, engaging, confidence-building way. Skye is no different. Just like qualified teachers, experienced tutors or a full time tutor, Skye has been trained to boost each child’s maths skills, build each child’s confidence, help each child prepare for maths assessments and ensure child improves. The difference is the price; tuition from Skye is available for a fraction of the cost of other primary maths tutors.

Q: Is the AI online maths tuition available for secondary school too?

Yes, we also offer GCSE maths tutoring with Skye. It can be used with all secondary school GCSE maths students.

Address gaps and boost confidence with AI tutor Skye, the primary maths tutor built by teachers

Online one-to-one maths tutoring for Years 4-6

Voice-based conversational primary maths teaching

Unlimited time with a primary maths tutor from just £3,500 per school per year

A range of programmes to secure KS2 maths content

Includes dedicated SATs revision programme for Year 6

Flexible scheduling to suit your timetable

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“We used AI maths tutor Skye in the lead up to SATs this year. 93% of our Year 6 Third Space Learning pupils reached the expected level in their 2025 maths SATs.

One child who had been struggling with maths attained at greater depth with a scaled score of 110.

The AI tutoring is a low-cost, flexible way to get more pupils into the programme. Now, we’re no longer limited as to how many pupils get to experience one-to-one tutoring.”

Deb Harris, Assistant Headteacher

Wormley CofE Primary School, Hertfordshire

How primary maths tutoring works with Skye

Drawing on insights from 12 years of school-based tutoring and feedback from primary school teachers, we’ve built Skye to teach just like a primary education specialist, but for a fraction of the cost.

Skye is not a generic chatbot, it’s engaging primary maths tutoring on a deeper level. Students learn through spoken, two-way conversation, talking through primary maths problems out loud while Skye, their AI tutor, listens and responds.

How it works in schools like yours

Flexible primary maths tutoring programmes

Year 4 Number and Place Value

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Year 4 Number and Place Value

Learning objectives in this programme

Each Learning Objective provides opportunities for concept review, guided practice, independent practice and challenge

Year 4 Geometry

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Year 4 Measurement

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Year 4 Fractions

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Year 4 Calculations

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Year 5 Top 20

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Year 5 Top 20

Learning objectives in this programme

Each Learning Objective provides opportunities for concept review, guided practice, independent practice and challenge

Showing and partitioning numbers up to 10,000

Ordering numbers up to 1,000,000

Rounding numbers to the nearest 10,000 and 100,000

Writing tenths as decimals

Writing hundredths as decimals

Knowing the value of each digit in numbers with up to 2 decimal places

Multiplying and dividing whole numbers and decimals by 10 and 100

Converting between units of measure

Using fact families to multiply and divide

Counting in multiples

Multiplying up to 3-digits using short multiplication

Using known facts to find factors

Solving real-life problems with remainders

Rounding decimals to the nearest whole number

Understanding fractions greater than 1

Finding equivalent fractions using a number line

Finding fractions of an amount

Dividing using short division

Adding and subtracting decimals using known facts

Calculating areas

Year 5 Number and Place Value

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Year 5 Number and Place Value

Learning objectives in this programme

Each Learning Objective provides opportunities for concept review, guided practice, independent practice and challenge

Knowing the value of each digit in numbers up to 1,000,000

Ordering numbers up to 1,000,000

Rounding numbers to the nearest 10,000 and 100,000

Adding and subtracting multiples of 10 up to 100,000

Counting back from zero

Knowing the value of each digit in numbers with up to 2 decimal places

Partitioning in different ways with decimals

Comparing numbers with up to 2 decimal places using money

Ordering numbers with up to 2 decimal places

Estimating the position of tenths and hundredths on a number line

Multiplying and dividing whole numbers and decimals by 10 and 100

Rounding numbers to the nearest tenth

Adding or subtracting tenths or hundredths

Finding multiples

Finding factors

Finding common factors of two numbers

Finding square numbers

Finding prime numbers

Finding cube numbers

Year 5 Geometry

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Year 5 Measurement

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Year 5 Fractions

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Year 5 Calculations

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Year 6 SATs Revision

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Year 6 SATs Revision

Learning objectives in this programme

Each Learning Objective provides opportunities for concept review, guided practice, independent practice and challenge

Developing Fluency with Addition and Subtraction

Reasoning with Addition and Subtraction

Reasoning with Money

Developing Fluency with Multiplication and Division

Reasoning with Multiplication and Division Facts

Reasoning with Multiples, Factors and Prime Numbers

Reasoning with Place Value

Reasoning with Rounding

Reasoning with Solving Multiplication and Division Problems

Reasoning with Algebra

Reasoning with Data and Averages

Developing Fluency with Calculating with Fractions

Reasoning with Equivalent Fractions

Reasoning with Percentages of Amounts

Developing Fluency with Decimal Calculations

Reasoning with Solving Problems using Mixed Operations

Reasoning with Angles

Reasoning with Time

Reasoning with Negative Numbers

Reasoning with Fractions, Decimals and Percentages

Year 6 Number and Place Value

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Year 6 Number and Place Value

Learning objectives in this programme

Each Learning Objective provides opportunities for concept review, guided practice, independent practice and challenge

Year 6 Geometry

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Year 6 Measurement

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Year 6 Fractions

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Year 6 Calculations

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Watch Year 5 primary maths tutoring in action

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Low-cost one-to-one support for every Year 4-6 pupil who needs it

With Skye, you can run as many one-to-one maths sessions as you need for one low fixed cost.

If you find more students need support as you go through the year, you won’t need to find space in the budget or need to take other students off the programme.

A two-form entry primary school will save an average of 90% vs traditional one-to-one primary tutors.

“We’ve used Third Space Learning for a few years and it has such a strong impact. The AI tutoring with Skye has been a game-changer! It’s allowed us to get more children onto the programme because it’s so affordable and more flexible. It absolutely works.”

David Gooding, Assistant Headteacher

Harrison Primary School, Fareham

Structured, scaffolded lessons from a primary maths tutor

Every lesson is designed by qualified teachers to follow an “I do, we do, you do” structure.

AI tutor Skye has been specifically trained to use this curriculum of primary lessons, teaching maths to address learning gaps, boost maths knowledge, build problem solving skills, deepen understanding, develop confidence and boost progress.

Every lesson starts with a short diagnostic assessment. Skye will skip straight to independent practice if the pupil is ready or guide the pupil through the lesson as normal if not, using formative assessment to identify misconceptions and provide tailored hints.

Year 4 tutoring

Year 5 tutoring

Year 6 tutoring

Personalised learning made easy at scale

Skye starts each lesson with an initial assessment to adapt teaching, so as a primary maths tutor it can then address learning gaps or skip straight to independent practice if the child ready.

Teachers can re-order lessons at any point to ensure the tutoring experience aligns with their own intervention and teaching goals.

Flexible online maths tuition across your primary school

As well as using Skye for regular, scheduled sessions throughout the year, schools can also use the primary maths tutor:

For extra maths lessons with ad-hoc, on-demand sessions

For more frequent exam practice to boost progress before SATs

For short term cover to address staff shortages or absences

As part of your maths homework approach

As a virtual Teaching Assistant

Keeping pupils safe with Skye

Structured content: Skye can only display primary lessons created by our team; strict guardrails control interactions and ensure discussions are appropriate

Session recordings: All primary maths tutor sessions are recorded and transcribed

Red flag policy: Skye automatically flags safeguarding concerns for review and escalation to primary school teachers

Trusted processes: Safeguarding policies previously approved by the Department for Education as part of the National Tutoring Programme

Structured content: Skye can only display primary lessons created by our team; strict guardrails control interactions and ensure discussions are appropriate

Session recordings: All primary maths tutor sessions are recorded and transcribed

Red flag policy: Skye automatically flags safeguarding concerns for review and escalation to primary school teachers

Trusted processes: Safeguarding policies previously approved by the Department for Education as part of the National Tutoring Programme

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Get in touch today to arrange a free primary maths tutoring lesson with Skye. You’ll also learn more about how our AI maths tutor can support your school and pupils:

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Unlimited one-to-one tutoring for one low fixed cost

Developed by maths teachers for maximum academic impact

Built using insights from 2.1 million one to one tutoring sessions in schools

Designed to improve maths SATs scores

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Frequently asked questions

How does the primary school maths tutoring work? ▲

How has Skye been trained to teach primary maths? ▲

How is the learning personalised? ▲

How much does Skye cost? ▲

Can I try it for free? ▲

When is maths tuition from Skye available? ▲

Is Skye’s primary maths tutoring suitable for students with special educational needs? ▲

Is Skye available for primary schools across the UK? ▲

How is Skye different from a private tutor? ▲

Is the AI online maths tuition available for secondary school too? ▲

Is Skye available for A-level maths, further maths or university level maths? ▲

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