Meet the Creator
Hi, I’m Jade!
I’m a mum, a qualified primary teacher, and now a Literacy & Dyslexia Specialist based in Melbourne’s Inner South-East. After more than a decade in the classroom, I founded Me Lab and Co in 2019 to offer personalised, evidence-based support that helps children thrive in reading, writing, and spelling.
As an accredited MSL Specialist and Orton-Gillingham practitioner, I’m all about making structured literacy feel fun, supportive, and accessible. I’ve worked with countless children who felt like reading “just wasn’t for them,” and I made it my mission to change that.
Whizz Bean was born when I noticed a gap: many learning games felt too babyish for older kids who still wanted to play, have fun, and feel challenged. I created Whizz Bean to be age-respectful, engaging, and effective for all learners.
💛 My Motto: When learning feels like play, real progress happens.
It’s not about how fast children get there — it’s about how supported, safe, and empowered they feel along the way. That’s when confidence grows, and learning truly clicks.
💛 Jade xx
What is Whizz Bean?
Whizz Bean is a playful phonics card game for children aged six and above. It builds confidence, fluency, and a genuine love for reading through hands on play.
Backed by the Science of Reading
Created by a Literacy and Dyslexia Specialist, Whizz Bean fits into families, classrooms, intervention, and therapy sessions. Kids learn phonics naturally as they play, no worksheets needed.
What kids learn
Whizz Bean strengthens important reading skills such as:
Blending and segmenting
Word recognition and fluency
Spelling patterns and decoding skills
Box 1 covers:
CVC, CVVC, CCVC
Consonant digraphs (sh, th, ch, qu, wh)
Nasal endings and double consonants (-ng, -nk, -ff, -ll, -ss, -zz, -ck/k, -dge/ge, -tch/ch)
Box 2 covers:
Split digraphs (a e, e e, i e, o e, u e)
Vowel teams (ai, ay, ee, oo, ea, igh, oi, oy)
Box 3 covers
Controlled r patterns (er, ir, ur, or, ar)
Soft c and soft g
Long vowel teams (oe, ow, ou, ew, ue, ey, y)
The best part
It feels like playtime, even though it is powerful reading practice.
