Welcome to Aspirations

Support to provide a first-class personal development programme tailored to students' needs, and data to show the impact.

I do not say this lightly, Aspirations is truly transformational
- MAT Regional Director
This is really fascinating data, it helps us to create an overriding vision which will be great when planning for next year
- Aspirations Lead
Personal Development
What is Personal Development?

School (and college) is about so much more than grades. It’s a time for young people to explore and develop their identity and prepare for the future.

Character and skill development – from classroom sessions to after-school clubs

PSHE lessons and assemblies

Careers and "next steps" guidance

Wellbeing and pastoral support.

how we help
How Aspirations supports students and school leaders
Personal Development Lead

Aspirations helps with...

  • Data covering all aspects of Personal Development
  • Personal support throughout the year to create a data-led plan & relevant resources
  • Evidence to show impact of co-curricular activities & enrichment experiences
  • Personalised tracking for school ‘passports’.
Senior Leadership Teams

Aspirations helps with...

  • View your headline personal development measures
  • Compare your schools PD to the average across the UK
  • Understand where more support is needed & suggested next steps.
Career Leads

Aspirations helps with...

  • Data to show student career interests and post-school plans to support with creating a careers plan based on student interests
  • Breakdowns by year group, student group (PP/SEN etc)
  • Tracking of 121 conversations
  • Gatsby tracking.
Form Tutors

Aspirations helps with...

  • An overview of their form groups personal development highlights, including career interests, areas of skill to focus on and wellbeing.
Club Leaders

Aspirations helps with...

  • Collect feedback on club enjoyment & skill development
  • Compare attendance & skill development of club with other clubs
  • View attendance over time
  • View attendance by student group (SEN/PP etc).
School Trusts / Groups of Schools


Aspirations helps with...

  • Comparisons of personal development across a group of schools
  • Track personal development changes over time
  • Analyse impact of co-curricular clubs & other PD initiatives
  • Understand where more support is needed, within which schools/student groups.
Students
  • Take some quizzes to find out more about your ambitions, topics you’re interested in & skills you want to get better at.
  • Make your own plan to improve and find online resources to help.
  • Build up a record of achievement to use when you are writing personal statements or during an interview.
How we support Trusts with their Personal Development strategy

We work with Academy Trusts & regions to support the development of their Personal Development strategy across a group of schools; understanding their student needs, planning effectively, implementing their strategy and measuring and monitoring the impact it is having across all schools and students.

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