byHurst Interactive

Hurst Interactive / Education

Hurst Interactive Education

Learning games made by a primary school teacher, for the classroom and for home. No adverts, no sign-in and nothing collected about your child. Every app works offline.

For young children

Ages 2 to 7 · Nursery to Year 2

Learning Playground home screen

Picture activities for Nursery, then maths, phonics, reading and typing questions that earn calm play time. All questions are free. The full version adds more Nursery activities, a Story library of 27 books, the Teacher toolkit and 12 more games.

Family £9.99 once · School licence £49 a year for 50 devices.

Calm sensory play · no reading needed

Sensory Playground home screen

24 touch-and-sound games with no words on screen. Twelve are free, and one payment opens the rest.

Family £4.99 once · School licence £29.99 a year for 50 devices, one code for the whole nursery or school.

New · Years 1 to 6 · ages 5 to 11

For primary school: Learning Arcade

Three separate apps for reading, maths and typing. Children answer questions, earn play time, then choose from 16 arcade games. No adverts, no accounts and nothing collected about your child. Try any of them in the browser, or read all about Learning Arcade.

Reading · Years 1 to 6

Learning Arcade Reading: a text about frogs and a question about putting the life stages in order

259 stories, fact files, poems, letters, plays and news reports, each with questions. Read-aloud built in.

Maths · Years 1 to 6

Learning Arcade Maths: a Year 5 question asking what one sixth of 60 is, with a number pad

Fresh questions every time, from counters in Year 1 to fractions, percentages and algebra in Year 6.

Typing and mouse · computers

Learning Arcade Typing: a sentence to type with an on-screen keyboard lighting up the next key

26 typing stages with an on-screen keyboard, plus ten mouse skills, from clicking to drawing shapes to help Adele the cat chop fruit.

Story adventures · Reception to Year 6 · ages 4 to 11

Delly Meow Meow: learning adventures

A series of story adventure games starring Delly, a little grey cat inspired by a real cat called Adele. Children answer maths, phonics, spelling and reading questions matched to their year group to open the gates, take on mini-game jobs to earn their fares, and travel across ten places in each game. Level 1 of every game is free. No adverts, no accounts and nothing collected about your child.

Game 1 · Delly Meow Meow

Delly Meow Meow title screen: Delly the cat walking along a path with her friends

Delly travels by bus, boat and seaplane from Willowbrook village to Grandma Mog's birthday party at the top of Snowcap Mountain, earning every fare. Read-aloud, a scribble pad for working out, One-Minute Maths and more than 20 mini-games.

Delly in Willowbrook village square, beside the fountain and Daisy's Yoghurt Hut

Game 2 · Delly and the Golden Yoghurt

Delly and the Golden Yoghurt title screen

Delly loses a very special present on the bus and chases it round the world: London, Paris, Venice, Egypt, Kenya, Japan, Australia and the Arctic. New in game 2: a reading clue hunt in every place, chases, a world map, postcards to Grandma Mog and a passport of fact cards.

Delly crossing the river Nile, with sailing boats, a pyramid and the Sphinx

Level 1 free · £9.99 once per game for families · School licence £99 a year for 50 devices, covering every Delly game.