Upskill your schools workforce
Succeed through supporting your coaches and PE taff with UPskill, powered by The Coaching Lab, an online learning platform that changes how you manage staff forever.
We sit between HR and Director of Sport to get your school sports workforce off to a positive start, maximising your staffs and pupils experience to save you time, parents with concerns and staff turnover.
Great experiences shouldn't be a lottery
UPskill is the online learning system tailor made to the challenges of sports workforce in education, helping leaders and HR positively impact their staff year on year.
- Supporting internal academic staff
- High turnover of casual staff
- Limited CPD time with coaches
- Coaches lack experience
- Inconsistent session delivery
bespoke for education
Assign meaningful modules to your workforce. UPskill modules are multisport and made for XI performance coaches to the F team participation. Support staff when you don't have time to physically.
Engaging girls in sport
Create great sporting experiences for young females that promote competence and confidence in every individual.
Working with mixed abilities
Leave this module with multiple ways to engage and deliver successful sessions to groups with varying skill level and motivations.
- Game zone and skill zone
- Giving players choice and challenge Scoring more than the end score line
- Teaching through the game and not stopping it all the time.
Asking great questions
Build your toolkit of powerful questions to engage pupils, promote decision makers and capture learning every session.
- Games that ask questions
- Planning for reflection
- How you ask questions and when you ask questions
- Understanding different types of questions
Engaging the player
Support each individual pupil to develop and engage in your sessions experience success, interaction and self fulfilment.
- What is a player centred coach
- Adding player challenges
- Using peer to peer interactions
- Coach to player interactions.
Maximise student learning
Get the most out your sessions and maximise the pupil experience with sessions that encourage learning and development.
- Play practice play model
- Games with games
- Building objectives
- Different models of delivering a session
- How you start a session.
Playing small sided games
Leave this module with stacks of new ways to play games and understand your role when games are being played.
- Building a game
- How to change the game
- Adding team and player challenges
Game day coaching
Recognise that game day is an extension of training and help pupils connect their learning and past experiences into game day.
- Connecting game day to what you did at training
- Measuring more than the score
- Impact of body language
- Delivering team meetings
Working with large groups
Understand ways you can create opportunities for pupils to be successful and have success in large group sizes.
- How to maximise the experience
- Ball rolling time
- Working with other coaches
- Setting up multiple exercises.
5 most asked:
How do you assign staff modules?
As a school you will have your own portal to assign and track each staff members progress through the modules.
- As easy as copy and pasting their emails to your portal
- Set specific completion dates
- Receive a certificate on completion
Can UPskill be used across sports as well as junior and senior?
All our modules are multi sport and support coaches with the HOW to coach skills, not the sports specific WHAT skills which traditional approaches to coach education take.
Modules are designed to engage sports staff working across the school sports landscape, XI performance to F team participation.
Sports specific modules and NGB accredited modules will be available in 2026/27.
I am a brand new Director of Sport and want UPskill to support 40+ staff who deliver sport, how does this work?
We work with you, your HR Department and Heads of Sport to build to ensure all staff are onboarded and promoted through the modules with ease.
Our staff numbers may change, how does impact our package?
You can change your UPskill package as your workforce changes. Simply contact your account manager to help you and we will do the rest.
How long does a school sign up for?
Once you have you signed up, access keys last 12 months. Once you have used all your access keys you can purchase more to top up new staff.
Access keys will auto renew after 12 months to ensure staff keep up to date with brand new content we add and align with the academic term.
GIVING YOU CONFIDENCE IN staff
UPskill changes how school sport is coached forever, delivering world class content to every coach in the palm of their hand.
We're staff learning reimagined, going beyond the technical and tactical skills taught in traditional coach development.
your challenges, solved!
UPskill solves the biggest challenges facing Directors of Sport and Heads of PE.
Onboarding new staff
Ranging staff experiences
Lack of time to deliver CPD
Maximising CPD budget
Onboarding new staff
Ranging staff experiences
Lack of time to deliver CPD
Maximising CPD budget
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£1275$2,700 AUD / $1,800 USD
- UPskill access keys
- Unlimited course modules
- Personal onboarding call
- Termly school masterclasses
- Module downloads and resources
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Heads of Sport staff development toolkit
MatchPlay Cards for your staff
Bespoke coach development tool kit
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SOLVING YOUR BIGGEST ISSUES IN SCHOOL sport
Directors of Sport and sports leaders tell me they struggle with:
- Engaging part time staff
- The "good" players who now coach
- The academic staff who teach sport
- Those stuck in their ways
UPskill is here to change how school sport is delivered, supporting coaches to create great sporting experiences intentionally and not by chance.
In all schools its mandatory to complete child safeguarding modules before starting employment, to protect young people. Why should a child's sports experience be any different? UPskill helps your coaches to help students by giving them world class modules of learning every term.
Jack, Founder of The Coaching Lab
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