Our flagship leadership programmes put students in the driver's seat, facilitating play, leading peers and shaping culture across primary and secondary schools.
Two dedicated programmes: one a powerful workshop, one a year-long initiative, that hand real leadership to real students.
A dedicated workshop for primary and secondary student leaders. Hands-on, age-appropriate and unforgettable.
A full-year initiative empowering primary and secondary student leaders. We train them, coach them and stay with you all year.
Workshop or year-long? Often both. Most schools start with Next Gen to gauge interest, then graduate the keenest students into the year-long Student Agency cohort. Or run them in parallel. Here's how they actually compare.
Start with Next Gen, then graduate into Student Agency.
Run a Next Gen workshop with 40+ students. Identify the keenest 12–18. Place them into the year-long Student Agency cohort. Repeat next year, the new seniors mentor the new juniors. Culture compounds.
We come in for the year. We stay until the cohort can run it. Then we step back, and what they built keeps going.
From the founder“The students you train this year change the school next year.”
Dale Sidebottom, Founding Director, The School of Play
Six outcomes our partner schools see in the first term, measurable and repeatable.
Students stand up in front of peers and run real play sessions with real groups, week one.
Reading the room, responding to the people in it.
Games, rituals and language they keep for life, not a binder.
Lunch breaks, assemblies, classroom culture, student-led.
Lower playground incidents, higher connection, measurable across a term.
Programmes that run again next year; seniors mentor juniors. Culture compounds.
Take the free Play Leadership Profile quiz and discover how you naturally show up as a leader, and how to use play to bring out the best in your team. Built on the same framework that runs through every workshop we deliver.
Builds trust and belonging through shared moments.
Sparks new ideas and lifts the energy of the room.
Stretches the team and turns play into healthy competition.
Holds the space, listens deeply and lifts everyone up.
Many of the schools and organisations we partner with also bring The School of Play to their adult leadership teams.
For executive teams ready to build deeper trust, lift accountability and lead with the kind of presence that actually changes culture.
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See Better Us Workplace →Across primary and secondary schools, our student leadership programs deliver outcomes you can put in a report.
Whether the leaders are 10 or 50, we have a programme for them.
Tell us a little about who you want to invest in. We will recommend the right path, student, executive or in between.
