In a now>press>play audio Experience, every child in a class steps into an immersive story. They become a character, moving around the space, meeting people and visiting places, as they live and feel their learning. Follow-on oracy and literacy resources build on this shared experience to create a powerful, curriculum-linked learning sequence.
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When every child feels included and excited to learn, they begin to believe in their own potential. As active participants in a story, children gain agency over their learning, driving their curiosity and critical thinking: they ‘learn to learn’.
Emotionally motivating storytelling
Movement based participation to foster inclusion
Vivid sound-world provides accessible context for EAL and SEND
True understanding begins when children step into someone else’s shoes and connect with real human experiences. Immersive storytelling inspires children to share these experiences, discuss their emotions and engage in meaningful dialogue with each other. This emotional resonance is what drives curiosity and a love for learning.
Placed into lived experience of other people
Real life context for PSHE
Follow-up Oracy resources
Literacy skills combined with a rich spoken and written vocabulary are important not just for tests and SATs scores, but also for building self-esteem as children go into the wider world. Immersive storytelling leads to high retention of knowledge and facts, empowering children to talk and write with self-assurance.
Lasting retention through emotive facts
Complex vocabulary contextualised
Range of rich literacy resources
To help teachers maximise each immersive Experience, we’ve created 500+ editable follow-on resources that deepen learning and develop key skills across the curriculum. These versatile resources can be used for whole-class, group, or individual activities—before, during, or after an Experience—and are easily accessible on the now>press>play app.
With content and resources tailored to each phase, pupils of all ages and abilities can fully engage in their learning.
Story Starters help KS2 pupils to write with confidence, inspired by our immersive audio. After taking part in the beginning of a story, the children continue the narrative in their own words. Each Story Starter includes writing guidance, useful vocabulary, and ideas to spark the children's creativity.
Turbo-charge your nursery children's role-playing, imagination and language skills with our immersive Experiences for 2 - 3 year olds. Our sensory and exploratory stories get your children acting out narrative scenarios: retrieving their hat from a mischievous seagull at the seaside, finding a dinosaur who knows the way back home or chasing that gingerbread man!
After weeks going hungry in your stone house, you’re desperate to join your dad and sister, Etta, out on the hunt.
In the middle of the night, a fire starts on your street, Pudding Lane.
Out of the beans grows a giant beanstalk, which you decide to climb. What will you find at the top?
When you click on a pop-up whilst playing an online game, you are sucked into ‘Jungle Gym’.
On a school trip to NASA, you and your classmates are accidentally sent on a mission to Mars.
You’re in Botswana on a safari trip with your Dad and the park ranger.
We’re with you every step of the way—offering expert support, live lessons, tailored training, and a thriving educator community to make implementation effortless and impactful.
Schools around the country from large inner city MATs to small rural schools use now>press>play to include all their learners.
Book a trial100+ immersive audio Experiences for EYFS, KS1 & KS2
500+ adaptable follow-on resources
Class set of wireless headphones & our easy-to-use app
KS2 Story Starters to inspire variety of writing
Nursery Experiences to cater for EYFS development
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