Our family lives between two countries. Work moves us back and forth between Germany and Australia — and for a long time, school didn't move with us. What was set this week? What did the school actually expect while we were away? We'd ask, forward emails, piece together homework from photos of a whiteboard — and still feel one step behind. Not because anyone failed us. Because school, as a system, assumes your family stays put.
At some point between two flights we stopped treating it as something we were getting wrong, and started treating it as a design problem. If a family doesn't live in one place, why should their children's learning? We wanted one calm plan that carried both our worlds — German curriculum in German, Australian curriculum in English, in the same week — with progress we could see and records any authority would accept. It didn't exist. So we started building it.
The name comes from curious. The little spark in our logo is the moment we built all of this for: when something clicks and a child looks up. Every design decision runs through one filter — does it keep the week calm, honest and worth looking forward to? That's why there are no streaks, no red alerts, and why every lesson is written and reviewed by people, not generated on the fly.
Today, Nolia runs our own family's learning weeks, and those of a first group of families in Sydney. We're small, we build in the open, and we answer feedback ourselves.
If school's quiet assumption — that your family stays put — doesn't fit your life: welcome. We built this for you.
— Daniel
Nolia is shaped by the families who use it — and one day they'll be able to own a piece of it too. Read about that →
Open the demo — a real family's week, no sign-up, gone after an hour.