FAQs

BURSTS directly aligns with the National Curriculum for PE at Key Stage 1 as it focuses on the development of children’s Fundamental Movement Skills (agility, balance, and coordination) through a mix of competitive (against self and others) and cooperative challenges and games. Its gamified nature means different levels of ability are catered for through the provision of increasingly challenging situations which children can unlock as their confidence and competence grow. The rewards and celebration milestones within BURSTS enable us to celebrate activity progress and achievement for EVERY child.

BURSTS is directly aligned to the Curriculum for Wales, specifically supporting early education. Focusing on the Health and Well-being Area of Learning and Experience, BURSTS provides home learning opportunities to target the ‘What Matters’ statement: Developing physical health and well-being has lifelong benefits. At its heart, BURSTS provides engaging, progressive and age-appropriate challenges, games and rewards to develop Fundamental Movement Skills that support the development of physical literacy. The gamification of play and learning provides motivation for the child, allowing them to explore and develop their physical skills, confidence and resilience in their own way. The BURSTS dashboard helps schools track and celebrate milestones in activity progress and achievements for every child.

At the heart of both real PE and BURSTS is the vision to support the development of positive relationships with physical activity for life for EVERY child. 

BURSTS is a home Physical Education app that empowers children to continue the development of the National Curriculum aims through gamified and personalised challenge, aligning to the intent of real PE. 

The progressive challenges in BURSTS align directly to the Fundamental Movement Skills development sections within all core real PE lessons, with the reward games providing opportunities for children to reinforce and apply these skills. 

The XP points and rewards children receive through the app align to the multi-abilities within real PE. Brave (personal), Wise (cognitive), Helpful (social) and Imaginative (creative) behaviours are all recognised through the child’s engagement with the app. 

At a school level, a BURSTS dashboard will appear on your real PE platform, providing progress and achievements data at a child, class and school level, giving you insights that can support and inform the implementation of real PE. 

BURSTS directly aligns to the Prime Areas of the EYFS framework, specifically Physical Development:
By creating games and providing opportunities for play both indoors and outdoors, adults can support children to develop their core strength, stability, balance, spatial awareness, co-ordination and agility. Gross motor skills provide the foundation for developing healthy bodies and social and emotional well-being.

BURSTS has been developed to be accessed by as many children aged 4-7 as possible. Each challenge has:

• Alternative activity tips - ways of adapting a challenge if a child cannot access the activity.
• I’m struggling tips - ways in which each activity can be simplified if a child is finding the activity too difficult.
• Activity extension tips - ideas to make the activity more challenging if children need an extension.

As we develop BURSTS, we are committed to finding new and innovative ways to ensure it becomes as inclusive as possible.

BURSTS is working with Wonde to connect and synchronise your BURSTS dashboard with the information inside your school’s MIS (i.e., SIMS, Arbor).  

What are the benefits?  
Having the Wonde connection means that you will not have to manually update BURSTS with information such as teacher, pupil and class details. For example, when a new pupil arrives the changes to your MIS will be automatically updated, saving your school administration time. It also ensures your data and insights provided are robust and accurate, including the breakdown of key groups such as Pupil Premium and SEN. 

About Wonde  
Wonde is used by many of the leading edtech companies to connect and synchronise their software with the different MIS providers used by schools. Wonde is installed in over 25,500 schools across the UK and there is no cost to the school for this service. Wonde’s School Portal provides a protective layer between your MIS and the applications you use, ensuring your data is safe, secure and always up to date.  

Next steps  
For schools that already use Wonde for other third party applications: Your Wonde administrator can log into your Wonde Portal to approve the connection to BURSTS. If you are the Wonde administrator for your school, you can log in using this link: https://edu.wonde.com/login.  

Alternatively, please speak with the school’s Wonde administrator to follow the simple process; this is typically school business manager, head/deputy head teacher or IT contact. Once approved, relevant data will then flow safely and securely from your MIS to BURSTS.  

What are the benefits?
Having the Wonde connection means that you will not have to manually update BURSTS with information such as teacher, pupil and class details. For example, when a new pupil arrives the changes to your MIS will be automatically updated, saving your school administration time. It also ensures all the data and insights provided are robust and accurate, including the breakdown of key groups such as Pupil Premium and SEN. 

About Wonde
Wonde is used by many of the leading edtech companies to connect and synchronise their software with the different MIS providers used by schools. Wonde is installed in over 25,500 schools across the UK and there is no cost to the school for this service. Wonde’s School Portal provides a protective layer between your MIS and the applications you use, ensuring your data is safe, secure and always up to date.  

Next steps 
The Wonde team will be in touch to complete the connection. If you do not have administrative access to your MIS (i.e., SIMS, Arbor) please forward the email you receive to the relevant person, i.e., School Business Manager, Head Teacher or IT Contact.  

BURSTS is currently designed for children aged 4-7 years. You can set up all children in your school who fall within this age group.

We can understand your excitement to get going immediately with BURSTS. Please subscribe to BURSTS now as a non-member and then if you join real PE as a member, your membership fee will be adjusted accordingly to reduce it by the difference between member and non-member BURSTS price. Your renewal subscription price will reflect your real PE membership status at the time.

To use BURSTS you will require an iOS or Android smartphone or tablet meeting the minimum specifications below:

• • iOS version 14 or newer
  • Android version 11 or newer

To support Augmented Reality (AR) mode:

• To view Jasmine in AR mode, your device must support ARKit(Apple) or ARCore(Android). To identify whether your device supports these features, please refer to the device manufacturers website.
• Make sure the room you are in is well lit.
• Ensure the rear camera of the device you are using is not obscured and is functional.
• Ensure you have a sufficient clear space for the AR mode (minimum 1m x 1m).
• Ensure that you pan the camera slowly and fully around the space you wish to view AR Jasmine in to enable AR mode.

Please allow 1 hour for your email to arrive.

Please check your ‘other’ and ‘junk’ mailboxes.

To ensure that emails about BURSTS reach your primary inbox please add info@burstsapp.co.uk to your safe email sender list. Instructions on how to do this vary by email service provider so please consult your email help function for instructions on how to do this.

This email will go to your nominated admin contact so please check your account to ensure this is the correct person.

If you have checked all of the above and can still not find the email, please contact info@burstsapp.co.uk

The admin contact is the person who sets up and arranges payment for the subscription of BURSTS. They will be the contact that is reminded when the annual subscription is due for renewal. In some schools that person will be different from the teacher (s) who is using BURSTS with their classes. The nominated admin person will be able to set up teachers with access to the platform.

Yes. You access your BURSTS dashboard using the same user name and password as your real PE platform. Simply click on the BURSTS logo on the navigation bar once you have logged in. 

You should have received an activation email which is separate to the BURSTS confirmation email.

If you have not received the activation email, please check your junk/spam folder. If this is not there you can email info@burstsapp.co.uk and we’ll be happy to resend this to you.

If you have already activated your account and forgotten your details, simply click here and select "Password reset". 

N.B. real PE member schools use the same username and password as you would to view your real PE platform. 

Our list depends on data published by DfE. It should include the vast majority of schools. If you are an international school or are not included on the DfE list for any reason please get in touch via info@burstsapp.co.uk with your school name, full address, contact name, phone number and email address and we will set you up so that you can subscribe to BURSTS.

The school process is for individual schools. The organisation process is for organisations such as Multi Academy Trusts or Partners who are subscribing and paying on behalf of more than one school at a time.

BURSTS is integrated with Wonde, a data management solution that your school is likely to already be familiar with. This makes set up much easier and quicker and will ensure that any changes to data in your school MIS system will be reflected in BURSTS, removing any need for you to manually update BURSTS.

BURSTS can be found on both the Apple App store and Android store, Google Play. In the set up process for schools there is a facility to send families an email or to send them a letter with an access code. Families then download the app and then enter the unique access code for free access.

Every child has their own BURSTS unique join code. If a family has 2 or more children in Early Years and Key Stage 1, but only receives 1 unique join code, you can resend a code via your BURSTS dashboard. To find out how, click here and follow the simple guide provided. We’re currently exploring why this is occurring and apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Once the parent/carer receives the resent unique code, click here to see the steps they need to follow to add their other child/ren. These steps are also available on the Family resource centre on burstsapp.co.uk under FAQs and also under How do I set up BURSTS?

Below is a template email/message that you can share with the relevant parent/carer once you have followed the steps to resend their code:

I’m sorry to hear you only received one unique join code. I have re-sent this to you, and it should now be in your inbox. Please check your junk/spam folder if it is not there. Click here to view the simple instructions to add your other child/ren.

N.B. Children in Key Stage 2 do not need a unique join code but can still be added to BURSTS to join the fun.

Paying by credit card happens automatically and requires no manual input from our team. Some schools need the facility to pay by invoice, but this requires more input from our team, so we charge a small fee to cover the costs of this.

Some schools are real PE members and they receive a discounted price for BURSTS (and other products) as a membership benefit. You can find out more about real PE here.

The threshold for a multiple purchase discount is 20 schools. These large purchasers do receive a discount to reflect the reduced administration costs of large purchases. BURSTS is already priced to get as many schools as possible involved and provides excellent value for money.

No, you do not need to start again, you will have the facility to move classes up and retain all of their progress that has been achieved so far.

We have started by developing BURSTS for children aged 4-7 years. At this stage we do not have a version for children aged above 7 years, but this may be something we will consider in the future. You will be the first to know! If you are looking for curriculum support, real PE does support all primary school aged children.