Hurst Interactive / Education / Learning Playground
Full version
Every maths, phonics, reading and typing question in Learning Playground is free, and so are four of the eight Nursery activities. The full version adds the other four Nursery activities, a Story library of 27 books, the Teacher toolkit and 12 more calm play games. Here is exactly what you get.
New · Nursery · ages 2 to 4
No reading needed. Each activity speaks to the child, has big buttons and never says wrong: a gentle "try again" and a helping hint instead. Five questions, then stars, stickers and calm play time.
Colours, Shapes, Counting (tap each one and it counts aloud) and Big and small.
Find the picture, Find the same, Where does it go? (drag a picture to a basket) and First sounds (hear a sound, pick the picture that starts with it).
Questions start with two pictures to choose from and move up to three after a perfect round. Teachers can fix it at two or three.
Story library
Every year group gets its own bookshelf. Children pick a book, read it, and answer questions that check they understood it. Every book is original, written for Learning Playground.
12 short books children can sound out, with Pip the Pup and Jen and Zak. A book appears on the shelf once the class has learned the sounds it uses.
15 books, including The Treehouse Club, Ask Professor Owl facts, poems and instructions for growing a cress head and playing hopscotch.
Questions ask what happened, but also what a word means, how a character feels and what kind of text it is.
Teacher toolkit
Put them on the interactive whiteboard or hand an iPad to a group. Each tool lets you choose where the numbers start.
Play time
Children earn play time by answering questions. These games join the 12 that are already free. All of them are calm, with gentle sound and no scores or timers to beat.
Draw with a finger and the line mirrors six ways, with soft chimes.
Flick shiny balls around the screen and hear them ring as they bounce.
Sweep through autumn leaves as they drift and tumble.
Drop shapes onto coloured bars. Each bar plays its own drum.
A slow lava lamp. Push the glowing blobs and watch them join.
Tap the night sky to send up quiet, sparkling fireworks.
Pop the balloons in counting order, from 1 upwards.
Draw on a misty window while the rain runs down the glass.
Draw a line of dominoes, then tip the first. The notes climb as they fall.
The lily pads drift slowly. Tap the next number to help the frog hop.
Plant flowers on the grid. A light sweeps across and plays them as a tune.
Draw ramps and watch the marbles roll, ping and drop.
Choose the family unlock or the school licence below. Payment is handled by Lemon Squeezy.
Your unlock code arrives by email straight away.
In the app, tap the gear at the top left, then type the code into the Full version box.
The device needs the internet once to unlock. After that it works with no connection.
Schools: you do not need to type the code 30 times. Add it to the app's web address, like hilearningplayground.com/?code=YOUR-CODE, and give that link to IT for the iPad web clip, or turn it into a QR code. Each device unlocks itself the first time it opens.
Prices in pounds (GBP). Lemon Squeezy shows the price in your local currency and adds any tax at checkout. The school licence renews each year; Lemon Squeezy emails a reminder first, and it can be cancelled at any time.
Yes. The free version has every question, Story time, the first book of each library series and half the games, with no time limit. The pictures on this page show the rest.
No. There are no adverts, no pop-ups and no sign-in. The app does not collect anything about your child.
Yes. Once it has been opened online, it keeps working offline, and so does the unlock.
Buy a second school licence, or email us and we will set up a larger one.
The full version locks again on your devices and the free version keeps working. The app checks the licence about once a month when it is online.
A common UK phonics order, as used by schemes such as Twinkl. Learning Playground is not made by or linked to Twinkl.
Email us your code and we will free up the old device's place.