For primary and secondary schools
Where is the best thing you ever built as a kid?
Gone. Into a bin at the end of term, or a folder nobody opens. Kidling is a safe, teacher-moderated place where students keep everything they make, and keep it for life.
Private to your school. Every post approved by a teacher. No student messaging, ever.
Twelve years of making things. Almost none of it survives.
Every child builds, draws, writes and invents their way through school. The output of all that work usually ends in one of three places.
The bin at the end of term
The bridge that held forty books. The volcano. The costume. Out with the classroom clear-out, every single year.
The folder nobody opens
Photos on a parent's phone, buried under ten thousand others. Technically kept. Never found again.
The thread that snaps
A student moves up a year, changes school, graduates. Twelve years of making things, and no record that any of it happened.
Where is the best thing you ever built as a kid? Gone. Poured into a bin, or a forgotten folder, existing only in your memory now. Kidling exists so that never happens again.
How it works
Three steps, and a teacher stands between every post and everyone else.
A student posts what they made
A photo from the camera roll, or just words. A project or a piece of artwork. It takes under a minute.
Their teacher reviews it
Nothing is visible to anyone else until a teacher approves it. They can approve, or send it back with a note asking for a change.
It is kept
Approved work joins the school's feed and the student's portfolio. It stays theirs, and the record is built to outlive the school year.
Two screens, and a teacher between them
This is the whole product. A child posts what they made, and it waits. A teacher reads it, and decides. Nothing else happens in between.
Cardboard bridge that held 40 books
We tested three shapes and the triangle one held the most. It broke at 41 books so we wrote down 40.
Only you and your teacher can see this until it is approved.
Cardboard bridge that held 40 books
Lovely work on the joints. Could you add a photo of the underside?
The part a safeguarding lead reads first
These are not settings that an administrator has to remember to switch on. They are the shape of the product, enforced at the database level.
Private by default
A student at one school can never see a student at another. There is no public profile and no cross-school discovery. This is enforced in the database, not just the interface.
Teacher moderation is mandatory
No post reaches the feed, a classmate, or a parent until a teacher has read it and approved it.
No student messaging. At all.
There are no direct messages and no comments between students. The feature does not exist, so it cannot be misused.
Parents can look, and only look
A linked parent sees approved work from their own children. They cannot post, edit, or act on a student's behalf.
Removal in one action, with a record
A teacher or admin can take any post down immediately. Who did it and when is recorded against the post.
The least data that works
Built to COPPA and FERPA principles. No behavioural tracking, no advertising, no third-party analytics following children around.
Where this goes
A portfolio today. A memory vault for life.
Schools buy the first layer: a safe, moderated portfolio their students use this term. The second layer is what makes it matter. Every project a student posts becomes a permanent personal archive that follows them past graduation.
Years later they can pull up the bridge they built at nine, see what it scored and what it was picked for, and find the classmates who built it with them. Proof of ability, and a reason to back themselves.
Yours after you leave
A student's account and full history persist beyond the school, under their own control.
The outcome, not just the photo
What it scored, what it won, what it was chosen for, recorded alongside the work.
The people you built it with
Collaborators are recorded on every project, so a team can find each other again later.
On this day
An old piece of work resurfaces years on, when it is worth remembering.
One school, four kinds of account
Students
Post a project or a piece of artwork, watch a portfolio build up, always see exactly where each post stands.
Teachers
One review queue for the whole school. Approve, send back with a note, or take something down.
Parents
A read-only window onto their own child's approved work. Nothing more, by design.
School admins
Invite staff, students and parents, link parents to children, and manage the roster.
Bring Kidling to your school
A short walkthrough with your leadership team, then a pilot with one year group. Nothing goes live until your staff have seen exactly what students and parents see.