Vision · Effort · Systems · Practice · Attitude

Every feature, and where to find it

What each tool actually does, grouped by the level it belongs to — so you can see exactly what you'd be buying.

Coaching Portal

Three levels: Core, Plus, Complete

Pick a level to jump to its features — each one builds on the last.

Core The coaching cycle Questionnaire, reports, conversations and activities — everything to run VESPA well. See Core features → Plus Most schools choose this Everything in Core, plus attainment, destinations and planning tools. See Plus features → Complete Departments & analysis Everything in Plus, plus departmental tools and deeper analysis support. See Complete features →

Coaching Portal

Core

The complete coaching cycle

Measure where students are, have a better conversation about it, and give them something concrete to do next.

For students

Student VESPA report header with radar chart and Vision score — The personalised student report — click to open the full portal UI (scrollable) or the printable version.

The VESPA questionnaire

28 questions, 10 to 15 minutes

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Students respond to a set of statements and get a score across each of the five behaviours, with a report back straight away. Running it once a term turns a snapshot into a direction of travel, so you can see who is drifting long before it shows up in grades. Developed with Dr Neil Dagnall and Dr Andrew Donovan at Manchester Metropolitan University and trialled with 1,669 students.

1,669 students in validation trial

0.85 Cronbach's alpha

3 cycles, once a term

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Best for Establishing a baseline in the first weeks of the year

Personalised student report

Their scores, in their words

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Every student gets an interactive report explaining what each score means in plain language, with reflection questions, coaching points for the tutor and two suggested activities for every behaviour — added to their list in one click. Written to be read by a sixteen-year-old rather than interpreted for them, so it becomes the shared document a coaching conversation is built around.

Best for Giving students language for how they study

VESPA Activities

Learn, do, reflect — not just read

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Each activity runs as a guided sequence: an explainer with video and slides, then a scenario where the student makes real decisions and sees the consequences, then a worksheet and a reflection. Mapped to the five behaviours and drawn from the work behind The A Level Mindset and The GCSE Mindset.

Best for Turning a low score into a concrete next step

Calendar and tasks

Syncs with Google and Microsoft

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Students see their timetable, deadlines and VESPA work in one day view, and drag unscheduled homework onto a free slot rather than leaving it to Sunday night. It connects to the school's Google or Microsoft calendar, so it reflects their actual week instead of asking them to maintain a second one.

Best for Students whose Systems score is the problem

Reflection and goals

Written by the student, after each cycle

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Students write a reflection on where they are and set one to three goals for the cycle, with prompts and suggestions if they're stuck. Goal deadlines drop into their task list and trigger reminders as the date approaches.

Best for Making coaching conversations stick between cycles

Points and achievements

Quiet motivation that doesn't patronise

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Students earn points for completing activities and unlock milestones as they go, with a leaderboard if your school wants one. Deliberately understated — enough to keep momentum through a term.

Best for Sustaining engagement past the first fortnight

The VESPA app

Included at every level

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Students can use VESPA on their phone through our iOS and Android apps, with the same questionnaire, report, activities and planner they get on the web. Free to every student at every level — no separate licence, no extra cost.

Best for Students who live on their phones

For staff

Coaching Overview: every tutee with VESPA scores, responses and action plans on one screen — The staff coaching dashboard — scores, responses and action plans for a whole tutor group.

Cohort dashboard

Your scores, against the national picture

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Every behaviour scored and benchmarked against the national average, so you know immediately whether a 6.3 in Systems is a problem or a strength. Cohort Insights sits underneath, showing the themes your students agree and disagree with most — and which of them moved since the last cycle.

Best for The first ten minutes of a line management meeting

VESPA Journey

How each behaviour moves across the year

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Drill into any behaviour to see all three cycles side by side: your average, the movement between cycles, the national comparison and the full distribution of scores against the national curve.

Best for Evidencing impact across the year

Student list

Every student, every cycle

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Look up any student and see their scores across all three cycles for each behaviour, with movement arrows, filtered by year group or tutor group.

Best for Preparing for a coaching conversation

Coaching Overview

Every tutee on one screen

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Scores, what the student wrote, the action plan they agreed and when it was last done — for a whole tutor group at once. The Week Strat column gives each student one concrete learning behaviour on their home page, rotated across the five dimensions.

Best for Consistency across a large tutor team

Staff coaching record

Private notes, with an audit trail

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A dated log of every coaching conversation, visible to staff but never to the student unless you choose to email the notes out. Organised by cycle with a full audit trail.

Best for Continuity when tutor groups change hands

Activities management

Assign and monitor

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Each student has five personal focus slots — one per behaviour, seeded from their report — running alongside the monthly programme your school sets centrally. Staff assign by problem, track progress and leave feedback.

Best for Tutor-time programmes with a named lead

Student View

See what they see

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Switch into a student's view of the portal exactly as they experience it. It makes staff training far quicker, and settles the "I can't find it" conversation in about ten seconds.

Best for Onboarding staff and troubleshooting with students

Account management

Set up in an afternoon, not a term

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Bulk-upload students by CSV or sync from your MIS, organise year groups and tutor groups, manage staff accounts and questionnaire cycles, and hand out access by QR code.

Best for The person who has to make September work

Slide decks and posters

Included from the resource library

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Ready-to-deliver decks covering the five behaviours, plus printable classroom posters for the habits, the coaching profiles and the student report guide.

Best for Tutors delivering VESPA with little prep time

Coaching Portal

Plus Most schools choose this

Everything in Core, and more

Where coaching stops being a standalone programme and starts connecting to attainment, destinations and how staff plan their delivery.

Intervention Priority ranked list of students needing support — Who needs a conversation this week — ranked with transparent score and question-level logic.

Academic Profile

Grades alongside behaviours

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Bring subject grades and targets into the same view as VESPA scores, so a coaching conversation can hold both at once. The pattern you're looking for — strong attitude, weak systems, slipping grades — becomes visible instead of inferred.

Best for Linking coaching to academic monitoring cycles

Explore and Apply

UCAS and apprenticeships in one place

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Students explore degrees, apprenticeships and jobs through an AI advisor that learns their interests, shortlist what fits, then build a personal statement against a live character budget with their offer requirements and UCAS points tracked alongside.

Best for Schools evidencing Gatsby benchmark work

Student Study Planner

Revision planning that survives contact with a real week

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Students start from a template — a light week, a standard week, an intensive run-up — or describe what's coming in their own words and get a draft plan back to edit.

Best for The run-up to mocks and terminal exams

Resources Plus

Curriculum Hub, Deck Builder and VESPA Videos

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The full set of resource-building tools, included at this level rather than bought separately. Build a bespoke curriculum, make your own activities, and draw on a curated video library.

Best for Schools designing their own VESPA programme

Question Level Analysis

Down to the individual statement

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Go past the five scores to the statements underneath them, and see exactly which ones your cohort agrees and disagrees with, cycle by cycle. Comment Insights sits alongside it for what students wrote in their own words.

Best for Designing a tutor programme around real weaknesses

Intervention Finder

Who needs a conversation this week

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Ranks the students who need support using a transparent scoring rule — critically low scores, positions below national, and sharp drops at statement level between cycles — and shows you the reasoning for each one.

Best for Spending limited tutor time on the right students

AI coaching summaries

A written starting point for each student

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For any individual student, a short written summary of what has changed, what it suggests and where to begin — with their score movements and their highest and lowest-agreement statements alongside it.

Best for Tutor teams without deep VESPA training

Coaching Portal

Complete

Everything in Plus, and more

Where VESPA moves out of the pastoral team and into departments, with our analysis alongside yours.

Staff Assignments dashboard for specification-linked work — Set, mark and track work from exam specifications across departments.

Student Voice

Your questions, our questionnaire

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Add your own Likert statements after the VESPA questionnaire — belonging, wellbeing, careers advice, whatever your development plan needs. They're reported separately and never affect VESPA scores, so the psychometric stays clean.

Best for Schools already running cohort surveys elsewhere

Assignments

Set, mark and track from exam specifications

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Subject staff build quizzes, activities and tasks from specification content, set them to a class, then mark and track completion against target and current grades — with class averages alongside each student.

Best for Embedding VESPA across departments

Subject staff accounts

Beyond the pastoral team

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Complete includes the largest free staff allowance — 10% of students (rounded up) + 1 primary contact — so subject teachers can see insights, set activities and run Assignments. Plus includes 8% + 1 for futures/UCAS leads; Core includes 5% + 1. Extra seats are £60 per person per year under 100 students, or £30 from 100 up — and you can add up to the same number as your free allowance. Coaching Portal is for 25+ students; materials-only access is Resource Portal.

Best for Whole-school rollouts

Deep Dive support

Our analysis, included

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We read your scores and student responses across all three cycles and write up what we find: faculty comparisons, statement-level progression, and where we'd focus next. Included at Complete rather than bought as a one-off.

Best for Reporting impact to governors or a trust board

Resource Portal

The teaching material on its own, licensed per staff member — no questionnaire, no coaching cycle. Schools buy Coaching Portal or Resource Portal — not both. Resource materials are already included with every Coaching Portal level.

VESPA Slide Decks

120 ready-to-deliver decks

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Built from the activities in The GCSE Mindset, The A Level Mindset and the VESPA Handbook, and written to be picked up and delivered in a tutor session without preparation.

Best for A tutor-time programme starting next week

VESPA Posters

Printable classroom sets

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Posters covering the five habits, the coaching profiles and the student report guide. They keep the vocabulary visible in rooms where the conversations actually happen.

Best for Making the language stick beyond the session

Resource Portal · Plus

Resources Plus

The tools that turn our library into your curriculum. Resources Plus is the enhanced Resource Portal product — included with Coaching Portal Plus and Complete.

Curriculum Hub

Build a programme, then share it

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Answer a few questions about your year group and it generates an annual programme month by month — optionally building in all three questionnaire cycles — which you then edit freely and share with staff.

Best for A VESPA lead planning a whole-year programme

Deck Builder

Make it yours

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Pick handbook slides, drop in your own school slides, and save a deck that belongs to your school. Quick templates cover the slides you always end up making anyway.

Best for Adapting activities to your context and cohort

VESPA Videos

Curated and regularly updated

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A growing library supporting student productivity and motivation, filterable by behaviour or by the student challenge you're trying to solve. Drop any video straight into a deck as a slide.

Best for Assemblies and short tutor-time inputs

Staff portal launch / CPD

Included with Resources Plus

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A 30-minute online session to get your team using the Resource Portal with confidence — how the library fits together, where to start, and how to share materials across staff.

Best for Departments rolling out Resources Plus for the first time

Training and support

What's included at each level

Portal training is included with every subscription. Higher levels include more of our time through the year — and separately, staff CPD and student sessions can be booked at any level.

Portal training sessions 30 minutes, online, for your staff

Core 1

Plus 2

Complete 3

Check-in sessions Review your data and how implementation is going

Core —

Plus Mid-year

Complete Termly

Deep Dive support Analysis across all three cycles

Core —

Plus —

Complete ✓

Named contact

Core —

Plus —

Complete ✓

MIS integration via Wonde

Core Add-on

Plus ✓

Complete ✓

Student onboarding workshop Keynote, QR self-registration, questionnaire and report in one session

Core Add-on

Plus Add-on

Complete Add-on

Included	Core	Plus	Complete
Portal training sessions 30 minutes, online, for your staff	1	2	3
Check-in sessions Review your data and how implementation is going	—	Mid-year	Termly
Deep Dive support Analysis across all three cycles	—	—	✓
Named contact	—	—	✓
MIS integration via Wonde	Add-on	✓	✓
Student onboarding workshop Keynote, QR self-registration, questionnaire and report in one session	Add-on	Add-on	Add-on

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Booked separately at any level: coaching conversations training with Martin Griffin, student workshops and keynotes, and additional Deep Dive work. Many schools bundle these into a single annual figure — ask and we'll quote it that way.

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