A clear first step.
A purposeful review.
A proposed pilot to explore the student experience, practical delivery and educational value before wider adoption.
The scope below is a starting proposal. Dates, staffing, content, responsibilities and commercial terms need agreement. This public prototype is for fictional examples; it is not ready for real student records or live safeguarding requests.
The purpose
Help students connect self-awareness and communication learning with a small, deliberate action in football, education or everyday life. Give the club a coherent programme it can organise and review while preserving students’ private reflection.
A proposed pilot shape
- Who
- One invited cohort, with a named club lead and assigned facilitator. Cohort size and age group to be agreed.
- Period
- Six weeks proposed, fitted around the club calendar. This trials two themes; it does not represent completion of the full Academy curriculum.
- Learning
- Awareness, Attention & Emotion, followed by Relationships & Communication. Reading, checks, scenarios, optional reflection and student-chosen next moves.
- Facilitated delivery
- Four 45-minute sessions proposed, with roughly 10–15 minutes of independent activity each week. Timing and access requirements to be agreed.
- Review
- A short midpoint check and an end-of-pilot review, using agreed programme evidence and optional feedback.
Proposed Academy contribution
- Learning materials and facilitator session guidance.
- Student orientation and the Academy Guide.
- Facilitator preparation and agreed delivery support.
- A programme review using approved evidence.
These are proposed pilot deliverables, subject to capacity and agreement.
Proposed club contribution
- A club lead, suitable timetable and cohort invitations.
- Named welfare and safeguarding contacts.
- Approved support procedures and response arrangements.
- Agreed access, reporting and implementation responsibilities.
Who facilitates each session must be confirmed before launch.
What works now—and what must come next
Working prototype
Two learning themes, local knowledge checks, scenarios, next moves, private journal screens, searchable resources, browser-based delivery plans, manual Zoom join links and a club programme overview.
Registration and cohort participation are demonstrations. Saves remain in this browser.
Before a live student pilot
Secure accounts and verified cohort invitations; authenticated roles; server-enforced journal privacy; approved data handling and retention; accessible onboarding; tested support routing; and a live operational support process.
Confirm age-appropriate permissions and club requirements before collecting any student data.
Agree the evidence before starting
- Student usability: can students find the lesson, understand the activity and identify a useful next step?
- Delivery practicality: can the facilitator prepare and deliver the planned sessions within the agreed timetable?
- Educational participation: agreed attendance and activity-completion definitions, once a live reporting service exists.
- Usefulness: optional feedback about the learning and service, without requesting private reflection.
Agree success criteria, reporting permissions and minimum group sizes before launch. Avoid reports that allow individual students to be inferred from small groups. A pilot can inform the offer; it cannot by itself prove wellbeing or football-performance outcomes.
Non-negotiable boundaries
Private journals, personal follow-up and support disclosures are excluded from club learning reports. Reflection is optional. Cohorts are facilitated learning spaces with no public feed or direct messaging. There are no psychological rankings or inferred trait scores.
Commercial discussion
No price has been set. A written pilot offer should specify the fee, included preparation and facilitation, support hours, technical setup, review, exclusions and any continuation costs. Agree these before making a commitment.
Next decision: identify a club lead and prospective cohort, agree the delivery model and launch requirements, then prepare a costed written proposal.