About PrimaryTools

Teachers and parents use PrimaryTools for SATs past papers, mark schemes, question level analysis and practice tests.

Early in my career I met plenty of ‘experts’ who could talk about assessment data all day, including the government’s own figures. Those long data conversations took up hours of precious time, yet rarely produced anything a teacher could use. That has driven everything I’ve made since: data that shows you what to teach next.

Who runs PrimaryTools

I’m Martin Green, and I run PrimaryTools from Buckhurst Hill in Essex.

I started out teaching English overseas and training teachers in Africa, then qualified as a teacher at Cambridge in 2001.

PrimaryTools grew out of primaryclass.co.uk, a free classroom resources site I built myself in Dreamweaver. As schools asked more about assessment, I began to specialise and set up PrimaryTools.

What’s here

How the resources are made

• I design every test for the national curriculum in England, in the same format as the real tests.
• I use modern tools, including AI, to help produce them, but I check every question and mark scheme myself before anything goes on the site.
• QLAs compare each question with that year’s national results, using published Department for Education data.
• No macros, so the workbooks open on school computers.
• Every paper has a version number, and I correct mistakes as soon as they’re reported.