The origin story
It started with a question of access.
Nurture grew from first-hand experience of how unequal access to educational support limits student potential—and a determination to make personal feedback possible for every learner.
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2017
Make support more accessible
David and Pádraic started jumpAgrade to move extra tuition online, reduce cost and remove the burden of travel.
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The shift
Personalise feedback, not privilege
Seeing inequalities in access changed the question: how could more students receive effective, personal support?
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Today
Give every teacher the framework
The model developed with Learnovate became Nurture: personalised formative feedback at classroom scale.
19%
average grade increase achieved by students supported through jumpAgrade.
A framework proven at scale
From a social mission to a tool for every classroom.
Working with Learnovate at Trinity College Dublin, the team developed a framework for fast, effective, personalised feedback. Its success with jumpAgrade laid the foundations for Nurture.
What we set out to solve
Better feedback without asking more from teachers.
Nurture works with tools schools already know, including Microsoft Teams, to make formative practice more sustainable.
Reduce repetitive marking
Identify common knowledge gaps and reuse high-quality feedback without repeating the same marking task.
Make reflection count
Help students pause, process and act on feedback—so teachers’ work changes what happens next.
See progress over time
Give students, teachers and leaders a clearer view of improvement across tasks, classes and schools.
Grounded in pedagogy
“The only useful feedback is the feedback that’s used by students.”
Professor Dylan Wiliam · Nurture strategic advisor
How we work
Principles we actually use.
Do meaningful work
Barrys > Lyons
Customer-first approach
Every day’s a school day
Built with good company
Research-backed. Socially minded. Ready for schools.
Our framework was developed with Learnovate at Trinity College Dublin. jumpAgrade is backed by Social Entrepreneurs Ireland and Rethink Ireland, and Nurture is a certified Microsoft Partner.