Goals and the learning plan

A goal on aitutors.me belongs to your child. They choose what to aim at, in their own words or by picking a place on the curriculum map, and their tutors teach towards it. Your Learning plan page is where you see those aims, the progress behind them, and where you record how the school report landed.

Goals are optional. With none set, tutoring carries on exactly as before: the tutors consolidate and follow your child's curiosity.

What changed in October 2026

• Your child and their tutors set goals; parents no longer set a direction for each subject. A direction you set earlier has been kept as your child's goal, and they can change it.
• A goal no longer ends with the term. It runs until it is reached or swapped.
• The week-by-week plan table has gone, for children, parents and tutors alike. A goal now shows the next step and the ways to work on it.
• The 3-year map has been replaced by My progress.

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Where your child sets a goal

Your child opens My Goals in their own menu, at aitutors.me/study/goals. The page has three tabs:

Tab	What it holds
My aims	The goals they have now, and the two buttons that add one
My progress	Every topic as a dot, lit by status, with a dated diary. See My progress
KS3 map	The curriculum map itself. See The KS3 curriculum map

There are two ways to add a goal, both at the top of My aims:

• Set a goal. They pick a subject and write one line in their own words, such as "stop panicking when I see fractions".
• Aim at a place on the map. They pick a subject and it opens as a grid: a row for each strand, a column for each year, every topic a dot. Tapping a dot shows the route to it, which is the handful of topics that have to come first. Tapping Aim here saves the goal at once.

A few things worth knowing about the picker:

• Only subjects your child has a seat for appear. See Choosing subjects.
• Gold-ringed dots are topics in a strand a tutor has already called solid. Your child's own year is marked on the grid.
• A GCSE topic is an invitation. For a topic past Year 9 the picker says "This one's GCSE. Want to try it anyway?" and the button reads Aim here anyway.
• There is no approval step. The goal is theirs. You see it on your page straight away.

Your child can hold up to two goals in one subject. If they try to add a third, the page asks which of the two it should replace.

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What a goal looks like

A goal aimed at a place on the map is shown as a short route of three or four stops: Now, Then, and Where you're aiming. The stop marked Now is opened out with:

• what the topic is, in a sentence or two
• why it comes first ("Because Sample space diagrams needs it first.")
• You've got it when you can…, a short list of what being able to do it looks like
• buttons to work on it

Button	Where it goes
Work on it with Professor …	The subject's tutor room, opened on that topic
Practise cards	Flashcards for the topic, when a deck exists
Read the explainer	An article on the topic, when one exists. Most topics do not have one yet
See it on the KS3 map	The map, with that topic in focus

There is also a line that reads "I think I've got this. Ask Professor … to check." It opens the tutor for a check and marks nothing by itself. Only a tutor's judgement moves a topic on. A child's tap never does.

Each goal card also has a What you love line, where your child can tell that subject's tutor what they are into (football, space, drawing), so examples land in a world they already know.

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When a goal is reached

A goal is reached when a tutor has called every stop on its route solid, or when a tutor marks the goal met. The card then reads "You got to …" and offers Pick the next place in that subject. The reached goal moves to Places you've reached, with its date, and frees one of the subject's two places.

Nothing is ever taken away. A reached goal stays reached, and a topic a tutor has called mastered does not dim later.

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Your Learning plan page

Open Learning plan from your dashboard, or go to aitutors.me/dashboard/learning-plan. If you have more than one child, use the switcher at the top.

The page is read-only where goals are concerned. From the top it shows:

• An exam countdown, if you have set one on Exam prep.
• Your child's goals. Their own words, the date, and a note that the tutors have been told. For a goal aimed at the map it also says how many topics away it is, "starting from where they are now, not from scratch".
• Your tutor noticed. When a tutor spots something worth your attention, such as a topic that keeps tripping your child up, a short note appears here. It is advice for you to read. It does not set a goal.
• GCSE options, as one line, for a child in Year 8 or Year 9 who has started their case. See GCSE options.
• Two tabs: Progress and Term result. The page opens on Progress.

If a goal needs a rethink

You cannot edit or remove your child's goal from your page, and that is deliberate. If you think it is the wrong aim, that is a conversation with them. They can change it in two taps.

Progress

The same subject tiles and diary your child sees on their My progress tab, without the links into their map. See My progress for how to read it.

Term result

When the school report comes home, record how it landed for each subject. No grades are needed, only a simple read:

The report says	The direction it suggests for next term
Below expectation	Improve: rebuild confidence and shore up the basics
On track	Consolidate: keep the momentum
Above	Stretch: reach ahead

You can add the teacher's comment if you would like to keep it with the record. The page shows the suggested direction as you fill it in. It is a record for you and a starting point for a conversation with your child. It does not set or change a goal.

Your record, kept private

Report entries are stored in your account. See Safety & privacy for the full data policy, including how to delete this data.

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How the tutors use a goal

Every session starts with the tutor aware of your child's current goals in that subject, and the tutor works towards them where it fits the lesson.

The teaching method never changes. Professor Pi still works up the hint ladder, and Professor Quill still protects your child's writing voice. A goal changes what they work on, not how they teach.

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Reports is the new name for Progress

The item in your dashboard sidebar that used to be called Progress is now Reports. It holds the same thing as before: the week's sessions, energy and what the tutors covered. The Progress tab described above lives on the Learning plan page.

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