Pebble Academy

How it will work

Practice that starts from their results.

For pupils who need more

Chosen by your school, guided by the flags.

Their hardest skills

A pupil building working memory will practise different things from one building inhibition.

Short, structured sessions

Planned over several weeks, at school or at home, at their own pace.

Challenge that adapts

Designed to stay achievable enough to keep going, and hard enough to build skill.

Built on cognitive remediation

Structured exercises, repeated practice, feedback and time to reflect.

Progress in the dashboard

Staff will see sessions, skills practised and how each profile develops.

The evidence

Built on cognitive remediation research.

An established clinical approach

Cognitive remediation builds attention, memory and planning through structured practice, adaptive challenge, feedback and reflection.

Strategies that carry over

Skills carry over to everyday life best when pupils reflect on their strategies and practise them close to real life.

Engagement drives the gains

The more pupils engage, the more they gain. So Pebble Academy is a world they want to come back to.

Early study · the training programme

53 pupils

showed improvement on a recognised measure of day-to-day functioning, after around 10 hours in the training programme.

Early and small: an early sign, not proof.

Designed by clinical researchers, led by Dr Samuel Swidzinski, a researcher on NIHR-funded cognitive remediation trials.

See the evidence What cognitive remediation is

Why a game

Practice only works if pupils keep doing it.

The aim: a world pupils choose to spend time in, built in Unreal Engine 5 by game developers and clinical researchers.

Four pupils in a sunlit kitchen in Pebble Academy, with tall windows onto woodland — The kitchen, somewhere calm to start the day.

A pupil's room in Pebble Academy, with a bed, bookshelves, a guitar and a desk — A room of their own.

In a science classroom in Pebble Academy, Veyra the fox asks 'What would help most?' and the pupil picks a reply, such as 'I'm not sure where to begin.' — Veyra, the guide, checks in. The pupil picks a reply.

The strategies screen in Pebble Academy, showing three strategy cards: Highlighter, Hide it and Group it, each at level 1 — Strategy cards to collect, practise and level up.

Ready now

Start with what is ready today.

When it rolls out, it joins Levels 2 and 3, for the pupils who need more.

Overview

How it works

Assess, support, track, and your first 90 days.

See how it works

Step 1 · Assess

Mind Skills Check

Every pupil, one lesson per class, led by any teacher: 12 short tasks across focus, thinking and memory.

See the Skills Check

Step 2 · Support

Student Reports

The intervention side: for the pupils who need more, an action plan, a passport export and a parent-friendly report.

See the reports

Step 3 · Track

Teacher Dashboard

Track every pupil and know how to act: needs, notes and plans in one record, how to adapt, and a termly re-check.

See the dashboard

Interventions pupils want to play. Coming soon.