partnership industry educational software founded london 2005 headquarters london united kingdom key people joe mathewson founding partner simon hay founding partner products firefly student planner teacher planner parent portal slogan the learning platform trusted by leading schools . website firefly learning firefly learning is a learning platform based in london england with offices in sydney australia that provides virtual learning platforms to hundreds of schools around the world . firefly allows teachers students and parents to publish and access information from anywhere with an internet connection . 1 background edit in 2000 firefly learning was started by two 15 year old students at st. paul s school after they became frustrated with the school s antiquated intranet system . 2 as students joe mathewson and simon hay developed the new easy to use system during school holidays . 3 soon after forest school expressed interest in the new system and firefly learning was born . 4 in 2010 students at wellington college stranded due to ash cloud grounding thousands of flights were able to continue with lessons via an e learning platform provided by firefly learning . 5 in 2012 bett nominated firefly for an innovation in ict award for its development of the student planner ipad app that automatically updates students planners with assignments assigned by the teacher . 6 firefly has been named a bett finalists every year since and in 2014 won an innovation award in london . 7 references edit transforming education through technology . bloomberg tv . retrieved 22 august 2014 . cole george 11 january 2011 . web whiz kids . guardian . retrieved 23 march 2011 . dann kitty 13 december 2013 . small business in the spotlight ... firefly . guardian . retrieved 6 july 2015 . after st. paul s . st. paul s school . retrieved 23 march 2011 . woolcock nicola april 20 2010 . no volcanic ash holiday as schools set exiled pupils work online . the times . retrieved 23 march 2011 . bett 2013 finalists . bett . retrieved 25 november 2012 . sparkle like firefly and sound like music house . hammersmith and fulham . retrieved 6 july 2015 . external links edit firefly learning firefly learning on twitter student planner available on itunes retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title firefly learning & oldid 678949930 categories educational softwarevirtual learning environmentseducational technology companies navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 1 september 2015 at 16 27 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view