The Daily Canon · Schools Edition
One great work of literature a day, for your whole class.
A poem, a short story, a play, an essay, a chapter of a novel. Each one introduced, with the full text to read in the app, and a reading log your students build themselves.
A free pilot for one class, for a full term. No card, no contract.
read one thing well, today
The case for a daily habit
Every morning your students open The Daily Canon and find a single curated work waiting. Not a worksheet. Not a comprehension exercise. Just the thing itself, beautifully set, with the context that makes it land.
The idea is simple. Reading widely is a habit, and habits are built daily. Most schemes of work can carry three or four set texts a year. This puts something worth reading in front of a student every single day, at no cost to your teaching time.
What your students get
- Today's workChosen and introduced, ready to read in a couple of minutes or an hour.
- The full text, in the appHundreds of complete books, poems and plays. No book budget, no photocopying.
- A reading log they buildSo a year of reading becomes something they can see.
- Streaks, laurels and pathsRewarding consistency rather than speed.
What you get
- A class dashboardWho has read what, and who is keeping their streak. At a glance, no marking.
- Printable login cardsOne card per pupil. Hand them out and you are done.
- Setup in under five minutesNo IT ticket, no rollout, no training.
- Evidence of independent readingWhich is otherwise almost impossible to capture.
From a purchase order to a class that reads.
Buy a class pass
Choose your seats and pay by invoice against a purchase order.
Print the cards
A sheet of login cards arrives ready to cut out.
Students sign in
They type the code on their card. Nothing else is asked of them.
The dashboard fills
You watch a class start reading, without chasing anyone.
Safeguarding
The first question every school asks. So we answer it first.
The student experience was designed backwards from the safeguarding question. We do not ask children for an email address, a surname, or a date of birth, because the safest data is the data you never hold.
Read the detail- No personal data from students
- No AI chat for students
- No ads, no third-party tracking
- Private by default
- Erase a class in one click
Pricing
Fifteen pounds a seat, a year. Less as the class grows.
A minimum of ten seats, sold two years at a time, so a cohort carries from GCSE into sixth form without a renewal conversation in the middle of it.
30 seats × £13 per year × 2 years = £780
£13 per seat, per year
You save £120 at this size.
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We would rather one class used this properly than ten schools bought it and forgot. A free pilot for one class, for a full term. No card, no contract, no automatic rollover into anything.
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