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Hunter the Hound: the Retrieval Champ

Six agents. Six skills. One squad - and every question in the app belongs to one of them.

Deep beneath the Champ Academy, six agents run the most unusual division in the service. They don't chase villains across rooftops. They don't escape through air vents with three seconds to spare. They do something far more difficult. They read.

Incoming transmission // Champ Academy HQ

Every mission begins the same way - with a message, a letter, a diary, a story. Someone has to work out what it actually means. Who's telling the truth. What's coming next. What the strange word in the third paragraph is hiding.

That's what the CHAMPS do. And it's what your child is training to do, too.

Open the files: tap any agent to read their full dossier

The story, the gadget, the catchphrase - and the reading skill behind each one.

Dossier · C-04

INTEL

REC

51.5074° N

Tier II · Field

C

Captain Connect

Inference Champ

Skill

CONNECT

Captain Connect

Field Commander

“Connect the dots, Agent!”

Dossier · H-07

INTEL

REC

53.4808° N

Tier II · Field

H

Hunter the Hound

Retrieval Champ

Skill

HUNT

Hunter the Hound

Dog Unit

“The nose knows!”

Dossier · A-02

INTEL

REC

55.9533° N

Tier II · Field

A

Annie Analysis

Explanation Champ

Skill

ANALYSE

Annie Analysis

HQ Operations

“Let’s break it down.”

Dossier · M-05

INTEL

REC

52.4862° N

Tier II · Field

M

Max Morse

Vocabulary Champ

Skill

VOCAB

Max Morse

Codebreaking Division

“Every word is a code - crack it!”

Dossier · P-09

INTEL

REC

51.4816° N

Tier II · Field

P

Penelope Predict

Prediction Champ

Skill

PREDICT

Penelope Predict

Head of the Gadget Lab

“You’ll be needing this. Trust me.”

Dossier · CASE-S

INTEL

REC

51.5N 0.1W

Tier II · Field

S

Summary Steve

Story Reteller

Skill

SEQUENCE

Summary Steve

Debrief Officer

“In short.”

The CHAMPS framework

Six agents. Six skills. One word.

Most reading schemes teach skills children can't name. AgentChamp gives every skill a face, a voice and a catchphrase - so when a child says “that's a Hunter question,” they're telling you they can identify retrieval.

These aren't six characters we invented and then attached to a curriculum. They are the curriculum.

Together they cover every KS2 reading content domain, 2a-2h - nothing tested at the end of Key Stage 2 falls outside the squad. What the eight domains actually assess.

Tap a letter to open the agent's file ›

The Academy is recruiting.

Every mission ends with a debrief built on these six skills. Schools register free - parents and tutors can sign up directly. Start reading, and meet the squad in the field.

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Classified // Dossier · H-07

REC

53.4808° N

Hunter the Hound

Tracking & Retrieval · K-9 Division

Tier II · Field

“The nose knows!”

Field notes

The finest tracker the Academy has ever recruited - and, he'd like everyone to know, a master of disguise. He is not a master of disguise. He is a dog in a very nice jumper. Nobody has the heart to tell him.

What Hunter is - genuinely, brilliantly - is the agent you send when something is hidden in the text: a date, a name, a single line buried in a long paragraph. Other agents read the story. Hunter hunts through it, nose down, tail going, until he surfaces with exactly the thing you asked for.

Gadget // The Bone-Com 3000

Hunter thinks in perfect, articulate English. What comes out is barking. So Penelope built the Bone-Com - a high-tech bone that translates every thought into speech the moment he picks it up. He hasn't put it down since. The squad has mixed feelings about this.

Reading skill // Retrieval

Finding specific information in a text.

NC DOMAIN 2b

In the app: every retrieval question your child answers is a Hunter question.

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