Practice that matches class.

Each week, send in what your child covered at school: a photo of the worksheet, or a few lines of text. The following week's maths, reading and science reviews are built around it, at your child's own level.

It is called This Week at School, and it is part of the Dad's Academy paid plan.

How This Week at School works

1. Send in what came home

A worksheet in the backpack, a note from the teacher, a topic your child mentioned at dinner. Take a photo of it, or type a line or two such as "Grade 3 maths: rounding to the nearest ten" or "Reading: finding the main idea". You can send it in yourself, from This Week at School in your parent Command Center, or your child can, from the This Week at School check-in in their own app.

2. Next week's reviews follow it

Over the following week, your child's Math, English and Science reviews draw on that topic. The questions are new, not copied from the worksheet, and they stay at the level your child has reached in each subject. A child who is ahead gets the topic at a stretch; a child who is still finding their feet gets it from the ground up.

Life Skills carries on as usual, since it is not usually what comes home in the backpack.

3. You see how it went

The parent Command Center shows recent accuracy in each subject and the skills your child misses most often. If the week's topic is one of them, you will see it, and you can assign more practice on it in a tap or ask Pip about it in plain language.

An example: Theo, grade 3

On Thursday, Theo brings home a maths worksheet on rounding to the nearest ten and hundred. His father photographs it and sends it in.

The next week, the new questions in Theo's daily maths review are about rounding, mixed in with ones he missed before: some typed answers, some "put these in order", one that asks which numbers round to 300. He finds rounding to the nearest ten easy and misses two questions on rounding to the nearest hundred. Pip walks through one worked example, and a different hundreds question comes back later in the week.

On Sunday, his father sees "rounding to the nearest hundred" in the Command Center and mentions it to Theo's teacher at pickup. That is the whole idea: a small, specific thing to notice, while the class is still on the topic.

(Theo is a fictional example.)

Practice, not answers

Many apps will read a photo of homework and hand back the answers. This Week at School does the opposite. The photo tells Dad's Academy what the class is working on; your child then practises that topic with new questions, the following week. Nothing on the original worksheet is solved for them.

Homework stays your child's to do. The review afterwards is what we help with.

Why review the same week's topic

A topic is easiest to strengthen while it is still fresh and still being taught. Practice that matches class is also easier to explain at the kitchen table: "this is what you did on Thursday" lands better than "this is something the app chose".

It helps you as well. You hear about what is happening in class from the worksheet itself, not only from "How was school?" "Fine." If you want more ways to start that conversation, see 12 better questions than "How was school?".

What it does not do

• It does not replace the teacher or the homework. It is review that follows the class, a week behind it.
• It does not do homework. It does not solve the worksheet you send in.
• It works from what you send. Weeks with nothing sent in carry on with your child's usual adaptive practice.
• It does not promise better grades. It gives your child regular practice on what is being taught, and gives you a clear view of how it is going.
• Life Skills is not included; This Week at School shapes Math, English and Science.

On the free and paid plans

Dad's Academy is free to start, with no card required, and you can cancel anytime.

This Week at School is part of the paid plan, along with adaptive levelling and screen time your child earns by learning on a Windows PC. Prices are shown in your local currency on the pricing page.