Develop every person delivering sport in your school
Give teachers, coaches, graduate assistants and external staff the practical support they need, without adding more meetings to your calendar.
School-specific learning, personalised pathways, practical resources and clear progress tracking in one UPskill portal.
Solve your biggest workforce challenges
Your sports workforce may include experienced Heads of Sport, academic staff, graduate assistants and external coaches. They bring different strengths, work different hours and need different levels of support.
UPskill helps you support them all without adding more meetings to your calendar.
Different staff need different support
Create separate groups and assign relevant modules, Learning Journeys and resources based on each person’s role, experience and development needs.
Creating consistency across sport
Give every staff member a shared understanding of your school’s expectations while allowing them to retain their own personality and coaching style.
Limited time for staff development
Provide practical, flexible learning throughout the academic year, so development can continue without trying to get every coach into the same room.
Knowing who needs support
Track engagement and module progress across your workforce, helping you identify where a coach may need another resource, a conversation or more individual support.
Supporting a mixed workforce should not take over your working week
Your sports workforce may include qualified teachers, academic staff, graduate assistants, former pupils and external coaches. They bring different levels of experience and need different types of support.
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Explore our practical coaching modules
Your staff do not need more coaching theory. They need practical ideas that help them work with the pupils, teams and situations they face every week.
UPskill develops the “how to coach” skills that transfer across sports, age groups and levels of participation. From first-team performance to pupils representing their school for the first time, each module gives staff ideas they can apply straight away.
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.
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.
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
Engaging girls in sport
Create great sporting experiences for young females that promote competence and confidence in every individual.
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
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
Developing 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.
Engaging boys in sport
Through practical tools and tailored support, we empower coaches to create sessions that keep boys motivated, develop their confidence, and ensure sport remains a positive part of their lives both on and off the field.
Access 50+ resources
Session plans to games and downloads. UPskill has you and your staff sorted for the whole academic year.
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Great experiences by design and not luck
Schools invest significant time helping staff understand how pupils should be protected. We should also help every person delivering sport understand how pupils should be supported, engaged and developed.
- Engaging busy part-time and external staff
- Supporting academic staff who take teams
- Meaningfully challenging experienced coaches
A qualification may show that someone understands their sport. It does not automatically mean they understand your pupils, your values or the experience your school wants to create.
Our 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.
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