About EDLounge
EDLounge aims to:
- Improve disengaged and NEET's students' knowledge and understanding within a range of subjects in a relaxed and enjoyable environment through interactive learning approaches.
- Increase behaviour, motivation and attendance whilst promoting fun learning.
- Gain foundation and vocational qualifications (EDEXCEL Workskills (Level 1 and 2) and *New* Money & Finance (Level 1 and 2) for foundation NEET's, problematic and disengaged students through a range of subjects.
- Enable teaching staff to track, monitor and view graphical and theoretical data of student's progress in English, Maths and Science alongside functional skills, core and vocational subjects.
- Reduce exclusions, lower persistent absences and enhance learning whilst enabling the students to have the ability of working independently. Time is then spent on their business and enterprise which they manage and run.
- Provide a new and innovative approach to your Alternative and Foundation Curriculum, as you can now prepare your students for their Maths and English qualifications through our functional skills lessons and area.
- EDLounge students can also receive ATTENDANCE grades whilst completing lessons, assessment files and coursework to gain qualifications!
- The amount of success the students achieve, is dependent upon the amount of work and learning they complete.
- You can Reward students instantly for answers submitted, for effort, grade, commitment, coursework, homework and time.
EDLounge students are educated by completing lessons and earning virtual money through correct answers, homework and coursework submitted.
EDLounge is a new and pioneering resource that enables your students to study Maths, English, Science, PE, Citizenship, Careers, Workskills, Job skills, Life Skills, Media, Business, Enterprise, Behaviour, Geography and History online. The ground breaking resource creates an unbelievable setting for students to learn, work, play and have fun through learning online where your students now can gain 1 - 4 full GCSE qualifications in Workskills from EDEXCEL.
The resource is ideal for whole school approaches to raise standards for your Foundation, Vocational, NEETs, problematic, persistantly absent, and disengaged students.
When first logging into EDLounge students choose a character and an enterprise. The students start in a living room or 'lounge' environment where there are numerous actions they can take. Every aspect of Education Lounge has been designed by listening to 1,014 students during our pilot, alongside the vision of 3 headteachers.
On the 5th September, 2009 we launched EDLounge. We now have over 18,000 NEET's and problematic students in 200+ schools, PRU's, and organisations that are learning and gaining vocational qualifications (GCSE's) online. We now work closely with EDEXCEL Workskills so that students can now gain 1, 2, or 4 Full GCSEs at entry, level one and level two. Over recent months we have also introduced a new qualification, Money and Finance which also belongs to the workskills qualification area. Here, your students can gain a quarter or half a GCSE.
Call us on 01909 568 338 for more details or a free demonstration
EDLounge also provides a great tool for motivating and creating a positive learning system for NEET's, Included, Excluded, Home Educated, Foundation, Vocational, Teenage Pregnancy, Injured or Long Term Sick and Fast Track students alongside being used for Target Groups, C/D Border Students, or Whole School approaches. We now have over 18,000 students online, learning and gaining vocational qualifications in over 200+ schools



