Primary-friendly digital learning journal. Children record voice memos, post photos and respond to teacher prompts; parents can also follow. Common in KS1-KS2 IA lessons.

Interactive Amplify (IA)

Class adds phonics words to a shared word wall

Year 1 · 25 min · Shared class device(s) plus the IWB

The teacher names a target phoneme (e.g. /ai/ as in rain). Each child takes a turn (in small groups, on a shared tablet) to add one word containing that phoneme to a class Padlet. The IWB displays the wall growing in real time. The teacher highlights phonemes within each word as the class scrolls.

Tools: Padlet, Seesaw

Story-retelling voice memos to a class library

Year 2 · 30 min · Shared class device(s) per small group

The teacher reads a short story to the class. In small groups, children take turns recording a voice memo of one sentence retelling the story in sequence. The class then plays back all sentences in order, listening to themselves tell the whole story. The teacher draws out which moments different children chose to emphasise.

Tools: Seesaw

Passive Amplify (PA)

Audio-narrated science walk-through

Year 7 · 25 min · 1 device per student plus headphones

Each student listens to a teacher-recorded audio walk-through of a new science concept (e.g. how the heart pumps blood) with embedded sound cues (heartbeat samples, water flow analogies for blood movement). The audio pauses for self-paced reflection at three points.

Tools: Seesaw

This page is one of a growing set of PICRAT examples by cell, subject and key stage. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.