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Why We Built ClickTeach (And Why It Took a Teacher to Do It)

ByClickteach Admin

This is the post we probably should have written first. Before the resources, before the platform, before any of it. Because if you don’t understand why ClickTeach exists, none of the rest matters.

The numbers nobody talks about

71% of teachers say their workload is unmanageable. That’s not a typo. Seven out of ten. Only 3% can work within their contracted hours. One in three plan to leave the profession within five years.

Teachers spend 8 hours a week on marking and 6 hours on planning. That’s 14 hours on top of the teaching, the meetings, the parents’ evenings, the playground duties, the emotional labour of keeping 30 small humans safe and learning every day.

Half the workforce works an extra unpaid day every week. And Sundays? Sundays aren’t for rest. They’re for planning.

These aren’t our numbers. They come from the Tes Teacher Wellbeing Report 2026, the UCL Institute of Education, and TALIS data. This is the reality of teaching in the UK right now.

The resource problem

So you go looking for help. You find platforms with hundreds of thousands of resources. Surely something in there will work?

You search. You scroll. You download something that looks right. You open it and find American spellings. Or phonics errors. Or age-inappropriate language. Or a worksheet that needs so much rework you might as well have made it yourself.

Sound familiar?

Teachers report spending 4+ hours a week adapting downloaded resources. That’s not saving time. That’s moving the problem.

The big platforms solved the wrong problem. They gave teachers more resources. What teachers actually need is better resources. Fewer, but right. Curated, not cluttered. Print and teach, not download and fix.

Why it took a teacher to build this

ClickTeach wasn’t built by a tech company looking at education from the outside. It was built by Jen — an Outstanding-rated EYFS specialist with 20+ years in the classroom.

She’s in the 71%. She understands why teachers consider leaving. She’s too time-poor to make resources for her own classroom, let alone a platform. The irony isn’t lost on her.

But she knows something the big platforms don’t: what Outstanding practice actually looks like at 8am on a Monday morning with 30 four-year-olds walking through the door.

Every ClickTeach resource comes from that practice. Not from a content team. Not from AI. From a teacher who has done this, in a real classroom, with real children, and been rated Outstanding for it. Multiple times.

What we’re building

ClickTeach is a curated library of teaching resources for EYFS, KS1, and KS2. Every resource is:

  • Practitioner-made — created from real Outstanding-rated practice
  • UK curriculum-mapped — aligned to the National Curriculum and EYFS framework
  • Print and teach — no rework, no adapting, no fixing someone else’s mistakes
  • Differentiated three ways — working towards, expected, and greater depth. Genuinely, not just “the same worksheet but easier”
  • SEND-friendly — with visual supports, now-and-next boards, and sensory regulation resources built in from the start

We’d rather have 500 resources that teachers can find, trust, and use immediately than 500,000 that cause paralysis and require hours of adaptation.

The Sunday Saver

Every Sunday at 6pm, a curated pack of resources will land in your inbox. Matched to your year group. Themed for the coming week. Differentiated and curriculum-mapped. Your week is sorted before the Sunday scaries even start.

We chose 6pm on a Sunday deliberately. That’s the moment. The dread. The “I haven’t planned yet” feeling that every teacher knows. We want to be the thing that makes that moment disappear.

What we believe

Teachers deserve high-quality, accessible resources that need minimal rework. Resources that are easy and quick to find. Value for money — especially since most teachers pay for this out of their own pockets.

We will never become so focused on creating content that we overwhelm our users. We’ve seen what happens when platforms chase volume over usability. Decision paralysis. Endless scrolling. Hundreds of thousands of resources that make finding the right one impossible.

Quality over quantity. Curation over chaos. Findable over infinite.

What happens next

We’re launching this Easter. The first Sunday Saver drops on 12 April 2026 — the evening before schools return from the Easter break. “Your first week back — cracked.”

If you want to be one of the first 100 founding members (with pricing locked in for life), sign up free. You’ll be first to access everything we build.

And if you’re reading this thinking “finally, someone gets it” — that’s exactly why we built it.

Jen
Founder, ClickTeach
Still teaching. Still planning on Sundays. Building the solution.