Case Study: Neale-Wade Academy boosts student engagement and peer-led learning with Kahoot!

Implementing the Kahoot! Pedagogy at Neale-Wade Academy

Neale Wade Academy in Cambridge, UK, faced the common classroom challenge of engaging students in meaningful revision and assessing their understanding without singling anyone out. English teacher Claire Howlett turned to Kahoot! and its quiz platform, adopting the “Learners to Leaders” pedagogy so students would both play teacher-created quizzes and then create their own group quizzes to deepen understanding.

Kahoot! was used to deliver teacher-made quizzes (15–20 questions) and a student-led task where teams built quizzes on quotations, literary and linguistic features, and sentence types. The approach proved easy to use and highly engaging: students collaborated to find quotations, practiced terminology, and were motivated to participate, while teachers gained immediate formative assessment (for example, spotting groups’ knowledge gaps from incorrect answers). Kahoot! also preserved classroom dignity with non‑humiliating ranking, and students enjoyed taking on the teacher role, increasing participation and revision activity.

Neale Wade Academy

Claire Howlett

Neale Wade Academy