The whole of 11+ English, in one place
PenLeap helps primarily pupils in Years 4 and 5 preparing for the 11+ build their whole English: creative writing, spelling, punctuation, grammar and vocabulary, with examiner-style marking and progress a parent can follow.
A piece, marked
Against examiner rubrics
Total exam mark
25 / 40
Writing Feedback
Every piece is marked against examiner rubrics, giving rubric scores, sentence-level corrections and an improved rewrite of your child's own work.
SPaG Practice
Spelling, punctuation and grammar drills tracked topic by topic, so a weak area surfaces early instead of hiding inside an overall score.
Vocabulary Builder
Word upgrades, word banks and root explanations help children choose richer, more precise language.
Tests & Homework
Timed tests with a question-by-question review, and homework with due dates and attempt limits where a tutor or school sets it.
How it works
From a first draft to a stronger piece, in four steps
PenLeap marks your child's writing the way an examiner would, then shows them how to improve. The same account carries their SPaG practice, lessons and tests, so what the marking finds is what the practice works on next.
Add your child's writing
Upload a photo of handwritten work or paste typed text. We read handwriting for you, so there is nothing to retype.
Marked against examiner rubrics
Each piece is scored on Content, Structure, Vocabulary and SPaG, the way FSCE & CSSE writing is marked.
See corrections and a rewrite
Sentence-level corrections, vocabulary upgrades and an improved rewrite show your child exactly how to move up a band.
Practise the gap, and track it
Weak areas the marking finds turn into targeted spelling, punctuation and grammar practice, and a weekly report shows a parent what moved.
Everything You Need to Excel
Purpose-built tools for pupils in Years 4 and 5 preparing for the 11+ creative writing and English papers
Writing Feedback Lab
Type a piece, paste it, or photograph handwritten work. It comes back marked against examiner rubrics with sentence-level corrections and a stronger rewrite to learn from.
SPaG & Vocabulary Practice
Guided spelling, punctuation, grammar and vocabulary drills, with an explanation behind every answer. Progress is tracked topic by topic, so the weak areas surface instead of hiding in an overall score.
Lessons & Tests
Short lessons teach a technique, then timed tests check it stuck. Every test ends with a question-by-question review showing what was missed and why.
Homework & Mock Tests
Work set by a tutor or school lands in one place with its due date, and timed mock tests recreate exam conditions rather than open-ended practice.
Writing Portfolio
Every marked piece is kept together, so improvement across a term is visible in one place — and the whole portfolio can be printed for a tutor session.
Learning Seeds
Short teaching resources — written explanations, videos, slides and interactive quizzes — covering the techniques the writing tasks actually ask for.
Parent Progress View
Parents get their own account showing submissions, marks, homework status and practice history for each of their children, without sharing a login.
Writing Feedback Lab
Type a piece, paste it, or photograph handwritten work. It comes back marked against examiner rubrics with sentence-level corrections and a stronger rewrite to learn from.
SPaG & Vocabulary Practice
Guided spelling, punctuation, grammar and vocabulary drills, with an explanation behind every answer. Progress is tracked topic by topic, so the weak areas surface instead of hiding in an overall score.
Lessons & Tests
Short lessons teach a technique, then timed tests check it stuck. Every test ends with a question-by-question review showing what was missed and why.
Homework & Mock Tests
Work set by a tutor or school lands in one place with its due date, and timed mock tests recreate exam conditions rather than open-ended practice.
Writing Portfolio
Every marked piece is kept together, so improvement across a term is visible in one place — and the whole portfolio can be printed for a tutor session.
Learning Seeds
Short teaching resources — written explanations, videos, slides and interactive quizzes — covering the techniques the writing tasks actually ask for.
Parent Progress View
Parents get their own account showing submissions, marks, homework status and practice history for each of their children, without sharing a login.
See Your Writing Transform
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Analyzing Your Writing
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Rubric Scores
33/40 - High Band
Above expected level
Vocabulary Upgrades
"I'm scared," she whispered.
He crept through the shadows.
The enormous castle loomed ahead.
Improved Rewrite Preview
"The ancient door creaked open, revealing a world shrouded in mist. Sarah's heart pounded as she crept forward, her footsteps echoing in the eerie silence..."
Exactly what your child receives
One paragraph, marked end to end, from the original draft to corrections, scores, an examiner-style comment, an improved rewrite and the next thing to practise. Aligned to FSCE and CSSE writing tasks.
Illustrative sample, anonymised, not a real submission
1. The original paragraph
Task: write a suspense openingThe old house at the end of the lane was quiet to quiet. I pushed the door open and it creaked loudley. Their was a cold smell inside, like wet stone and dust. I new I shouldnt go in but my feet keeped moving. Somewhere upstairs, a floorboard groaned and my heart began to race.
2. Sentence-level corrections
Use 'too' (meaning excessively), not 'to', before an adjective.
The adverb of 'loud' is spelled 'loudly'.
'There' signals existence; 'their' shows possession.
Past tense of 'know' is 'knew'; 'new' means not old.
Contractions need an apostrophe: should not = shouldn't.
'Keep' is irregular: the past tense is 'kept'.
3. Rubric scores
Total exam mark
25 / 40
Content & Ideas
A strong, atmospheric opening with a clear sense of place.
Add one small detail about why the character is there to deepen the tension.
Structure & Organisation
The build-up is well paced but the paragraph ends just as tension peaks.
Carry the final moment one sentence further to land the suspense.
Vocabulary & Effect
Sensory choices like 'wet stone and dust' create a vivid mood.
Swap a plain verb such as 'pushed' for something more deliberate.
Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar
Ideas are clear, but homophones and a missing apostrophe slip in.
Re-read for 'to/too', 'their/there' and contractions before finishing.
4. Examiner-style comment
A genuinely tense opening — the cold smell and the groaning floorboard pull the reader straight into the scene. Tighten the spelling and punctuation, hold the final moment a beat longer, and this moves confidently into the top band.
5. The improved rewrite
The old house at the end of the lane was too quiet. I pushed the door open and it creaked loudly into the silence. There was a cold smell inside, like wet stone and dust that hadn't been disturbed for years. I knew I shouldn't go in, but my feet kept moving, one slow step after another. Somewhere upstairs a floorboard groaned, and my heart began to race — because I was certain, now, that I was not alone.
6. Practise this next
Suspense endings drill: rewrite the last line three different ways
Practising the closing beat trains you to hold tension instead of stopping at the scariest moment.
Sharpen Your Skills
Targeted practice drills across Grammar, Punctuation, Spelling & Vocabulary — with instant feedback
Grammar
MixedSubject-verb agreement, tenses, sentence types & word classes
Punctuation
MixedApostrophes, commas, colons, semicolons & speech marks
Spelling
MixedCommon misspellings, homophones, prefixes & suffixes
Vocabulary
MixedSynonyms, antonyms, word meanings & powerful alternatives
Timed Practice
Select a category to see a sample prompt and start practicing
Practice that keeps going between sessions
Feedback on a single piece is a start. Set work, timed papers and a portfolio are what turn it into steady progress across a term.
Set work with a due date
A tutor or school assigns a task to a class or a single child. It appears on the child's homework list with its deadline, and the completion state is visible to whoever set it.
Attempt limits that mean something
Homework can be capped at a number of attempts with an optional cooldown between them, so a child works the problem out rather than guessing until it turns green.
Locked work, unlocked deliberately
When the attempts run out the task locks. A teacher can grant a fresh attempt from the lock queue — a decision someone makes, not something the child can click past.
Timed mock papers
Tests carry a time limit and a pass mark, and can be set to run without going back or reviewing answers, so the practice matches the pressure of the real paper.
This week's homework
Set by your tutor
- Marked
Descriptive writing: the storm
Due Friday
- In progress
Apostrophes and possession
Attempt 2 of 3
- Locked
Vocabulary: precise verbs
Attempts used
Timed mock paper
Exam conditions
45 min
Time limit
60%
Pass mark
Off
Review
Everything kept in a portfolio
Every marked piece stays together and the whole set can be printed to take to a tutor session.
Try It Yourself
Answer 3 quick questions to see what PenLeap feels like
Which sentence uses the correct form of the verb?
Works the way your child works
Reading, listening, speaking or handwriting on paper — the practice adapts to how a child takes information in, not the other way round.
Read aloud, anywhere it helps
Questions, passages and explanations can be played back instead of read. A child who decodes slowly still meets the same material as everyone else.
A consistent reading voice
Reading voices are named personas rather than a raw robot default, and a school can set the voice its pupils hear so the experience stays familiar.
Listening questions
Some practice is heard rather than seen — listen and choose, or listen and spell. It trains the ear as well as the eye, which pure reading drills cannot.
Speak instead of typing
Answers and longer text can be dictated. Children who compose far better out loud than on a keyboard are not held back by their typing speed.
Photograph handwritten work
Most 11+ writing is done on paper. Photograph or scan it and the text is read out, with any word the reader is unsure about flagged so a misread never quietly costs marks.
On the devices you already have
It runs in the browser on a laptop, an iPad or a phone. Nothing to install, and no shared family login — each child has their own profile.
One platform, two very different jobs
Families use PenLeap to prepare one or two children. Tutors and schools use it to run a cohort. Both get their own tools.
Your own account, alongside your child's
- Every submission, mark and correction your child receives
- Homework status and practice history in one view
- Add more than one child without sharing a login
- PIN-protected parent area, and you can delete work at any time
Run classes without drowning in marking
- Upload a batch of scanned scripts and have them matched and marked
- Set homework and timed papers to a class, then see who is stuck
- Build your own question bank, tests and teaching resources
- Class, student and cohort reporting you can export
Built for someone else's child
Separate accounts, PINs on both sides, and a delete button that actually deletes. The things you would want to check before handing a login to a nine-year-old.
The parent area is behind a PIN
Your dashboard, billing and settings sit behind a parent PIN. A child using the same device on the same session cannot wander into them.
Each child has their own profile PIN
Children switch into their own profile with a four-digit PIN, and repeated wrong entries lock the attempt rather than allowing an endless guess.
Their writing is never used to train AI
Submissions are stored to give feedback and show progress. They are not fed into model training, and they are not shared with other families.
You can delete it, properly
As a parent you can delete any submission together with its feedback at any time, and it is removed from your child's account.
Consent recorded against a policy version
What you agreed to is stored against the exact version of the policy that was live at the time, so a later change never quietly rewrites your consent.
Concerning content is flagged
Where a school or tuition provider is involved, content that raises a safeguarding concern is recorded for the responsible adults there to review.
Everything in one place
From a first draft to a timed mock paper, and every mark in between.
Write it, and see it marked
Type a piece or paste one in, and it comes back scored against examiner rubrics with sentence-level corrections and a stronger rewrite to learn from.
Built for FSCE & CSSE-style 11+ English
Marked against examiner rubrics
Sentence-level feedback on every piece of writing
Practice and tests tracked topic by topic
Your child's work is private and never used to train AI
Upload handwritten work and we read it for you
One price per child, no tiers
The same full access whichever way you pay. Cancel at any time.
Full access
Everything PenLeap offers, for one child
Monthly
£12/month
Billed every month
Yearly
£120/year
£10 a month · saves £24 a year
- Writing marked against examiner rubrics, with a stronger rewrite
- Spelling, punctuation, grammar and vocabulary practice
- Lessons and timed tests with a question-by-question review
- Homework from your tutor or school in one place
- Read-aloud and dictation support
- Weekly parent report for every child
- Monthly review credits included
One subscription covers one child. Marked against examiner rubrics and built for FSCE and CSSE-style 11+ English.
Questions? Answered.
What a subscription covers, Essex 11+ alignment, handwriting and batch marking, homework and timed tests, multiple children, accessibility and privacy.
Give your child the whole of 11+ English
Writing marked against examiner rubrics, spelling, punctuation and grammar tracked topic by topic, lessons, timed tests and a weekly report for you. One subscription per child, and you can stop it whenever you like.