Maestro
Plan, adapt, assess and report all in one place. Built around the Cornerstones Curriculum, designed for primary school leaders.
Built for what matters
We’ve spent 15 years working with schools to achieve one common goal: a curriculum your whole school can be proud of, housed on a platform that enables you to manage it.
You didn’t get into teaching to spend hours chasing coverage gaps, compiling data for governors or trying to work out whether your curriculum is actually being taught the way you planned it. You got into teaching for the children.
Maestro is the digital platform that puts your curriculum and your children back at the centre of everything.
See how Maestro can help your school
Watch how planning, teaching, assessment and reporting work together on one platform.
Built for the realities of leading a primary school
Whether you’re preparing for inspection, navigating curriculum changes or trying to get a clearer picture of what’s happening across your school, Maestro has it covered.
Curriculum and Assessment Review
The national curriculum is changing. School can be ready before it becomes statute. Cornerstones has already created a new curriculum aligned to the changes. Once national programmes of study are confirmed, everything will be fully matched to ensure coverage and progression – all free as part of your licence.
Ofsted
Ofsted expects schools to demonstrate intent, implementation and impact. Maestro gives you the evidence for all three. From curriculum sequencing and coverage maps through to live assessment data and governor-ready reports, everything you need for inspection is already there at the click of a button.
Teacher workload
Maestro reduces teacher workload, it doesn't add to it. Lesson plans, resources and assessment tools are all connected in one place. Teachers plan, teach and assess in the same system. No separate spreadsheets, no duplicated data entry and no extra admin. When teachers use Maestro, they have more time to do what matters, teaching.
Visibility across your school
Maestro gives every leader in your school a clear view of what's being taught, how well children are progressing and where the gaps are. Subject leads can see their subject across every year group. Senior leaders get school-wide and trust-wide dashboards. Everyone sees the same picture, in real time.
What schools say about Maestro
Maestro was fundamental in ensuring that we were covering what we needed to cover, giving us the confidence to take our curriculum design further, knowing that we weren't creating additional content and depth at the cost of any core skills or knowledge.
Craig Steel
I wanted to make sure that teachers spent more time adapting and teaching to the needs of the children in their class, not spending hours creating resources. Maestro has allowed us to do this.
Daniel Norris
Each lesson in Maestro has the knowledge and skill clearly defined for the teacher. Within three clicks they can record coverage linked to a specific PoS (Programme of Study) and refine attainment information for individual children, classes or learning groups.
Julia Merritt
My chair of board was so impressed with Maestro and likened it to great education systems abroad. He spoke about how it standardises and raises the expectation, creating consistency across schools.
Vicky Musson
Maestro has revolutionised our planning approaches.
Alison Ashcroft
Cornerstones provided a great platform for us to build our new wider curriculum. It had a large enough content base for us to then cut and trim until we had the curriculum that we knew was right for our school. And Ofsted loved it too!
Adam Berridge
Maestro enabled us to rewrite our curriculum while maintaining our core content and pedagogy. It helped map our coverage and progression. The gap checker ensured that any adjustments to the curriculum preserved essential sequencing and progression.
Luke Carter
Maestro is the whole hub of where we base all our learning and just manage operationally day to day. It's everything. We use it as our core — we've put all our own English projects on there, use White Rose Maths, and I've even added my own Latin scheme.
Sarah Davies
The quality is there in the projects and I can adapt the lessons and scaffold it for different needs of individual children.
Francis Mayhew
Speak to a curriculum adviser
Our expert advisers will walk you through how Maestro can help your school
Explore the platform
A feature-by-feature look at everything our digital platform has to offer.
Class AttainmentInstant class-level snapshot of attainment and coverage across your whole class.
Group AnalysisCompare attainment and progress across classes, cohorts or pupil groups.
Monitor ProgressTrack any class, cohort or individual pupil between two assessment points.
Analyse Teacher AssessmentsView teacher assessments by group, right down to individual pupil level.
Subject ProgressionAll assessment data for a class or cohort within a single subject, at a glance.
School & Trust DashboardAt-a-glance school-wide and trust-wide monitoring for senior leaders.
EYFS GLD ReportGood Level of Development by cohort, linked directly to EYFS areas of learning.
Pupil ReportsFully customisable written reports that pull through real assessment data automatically.
Governor ReportGovernor-ready curriculum and attainment data reports at the click of a button.
How does your curriculum compare?
| Feature | Cornerstones | Other providers |
|---|---|---|
| Whole school primary curriculum (Ages 3 to 11) | ✓ | Limited |
| All-in-one digital curriculum platform (Maestro) | ✓ | Limited |
| Coverage of core and foundation subjects | ✓ | ✓ |
| Flexibility to produce bespoke curriculum including knowledge-rich and creative cross-curricular options. | ✓ | ✕ |
| Live, editable online lesson planning linked to platform. | ✓ | ✕ |
| Fully integrated assessment suite (formative + summative in one platform) | ✓ | ✕ |
| Standardised tests and quizzes that are linked directly to the curriculum content. | ✓ | Limited |
| Real-time data and reporting dashboards. | ✓ | ✕ |
| Designated 1:1 Curriculum Adviser / personalised onboarding included. | ✓ | Limited |
| SEND-specific curriculum support and guidance. | ✓ | ✕ |
Integrated assessment
Most schools are running assessment in a separate system from their curriculum. Teachers plan in one place, assess in another and report from a third. The result is a lot of admin that produces a lot of numbers but very little that actually helps a teacher decide what to teach next.
Assessment on Maestro is different. It’s built directly into the Cornerstones Curriculum, so teachers plan, teach and assess in the same system. The data that matters builds automatically, lesson by lesson, without any additional admin.
Your subject leads get visibility of their subject across every year group without chasing spreadsheets. Your senior leaders get a school-wide picture they can share with governors at the click of a button. And when Ofsted arrive, the evidence is already there.
Explore assessment in MaestroKnowledge is clearly sequenced and Maestro enables teachers to gain clear understanding of pupils' prior knowledge as well as the knowledge they are building towards.
Abigail Bible
Curriculum Lead
Sandown Primary School and Nursery
See Maestro for yourself
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