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Your Child Designs the Drill.
The Whole Family Plays It.

A child who has been doing drills for a term has opinions about them. The Drill Designer lets them act on one: draw a drill on a pitch, watch it play itself, try it, and send it to a grown-up. Once it is approved it belongs to the family, and everybody plays it.

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  1. Draw itCones, players, a ball, a goal, and the runs, dribbles and passes between them.
  2. Watch it playThe drill moves on its own, so they see whether the idea works.
  3. A grown-up approvesThey try it once, then send it. A grown-up says yes or sends it back.
  4. The family plays itBrothers and sisters run it with a clock, a count and a best of their own.
Designing

A pitch they draw on, and a drill that thinks about it

Your child taps pieces onto a pitch and swipes the moves between them, numbered in the order they happen. Then they press play. The drill works out who makes each move, who has the ball, and when a pass and the run that meets it should set off together.

  • Curves, curls and waiting A run can bend round a cone and a pass can curl. A move can wait for another to finish, and a timeline shows every move in its place.
  • Defenders that react A defender with no line of their own closes on the ball, always the same way for the same drawing, so the child can see what a defender would do.
  • It says what does not add up A pass to an empty spot, a dribble that starts away from the ball, a defender who could reach the pass first. About the drawing only, never a mark on the child.
A drill, drawn
D C P 1 2

Move 1 is a dribble round the cone, move 2 a curled pass past the defender. Drawn here for illustration.

Playing

Every drill comes with the tools to run it well

An approved drill is run like any other in Spatrian: a clock measured against the wall, the steps one at a time, a count against the target, and the session logged the same way.

  • Easier, as designed, harder The same drill with the cones spread out or drawn in, and the target moved to match. Moving up is suggested by the runner’s own counts, nobody else’s.
  • A left-foot version One switch shows the drill the other way round, for the weaker side.
  • Their own best, and a target each Every runner sees their own best, never a sibling’s. The designer can set a target for each brother or sister.
  • Set it up in big steps The pitch turned into steps a child can walk out: “Cone 2: four big steps right from cone 1.”
  • The phone can count it Where one rep is one sound, keepy-ups or passes off a wall, the phone listens and counts. Only the moment of each touch is kept.
  • No signal at the park A run logged without a connection is kept on the phone and sent when it is back.
Keepsakes

Things to print, and things to share

  • A sheet for the fridge The plate, the set-up steps, the target and who does what, on one printed page.
  • The designer’s notebook Every drill they made this school year, a page each, for a keepsake. It says it is not a record of hours.
  • A drill card and a short video Made on the phone for the share sheet, with the drill’s name and never your child’s. Nothing is uploaded.
Beyond the family

Sharing is a grown-up’s decision, one drill at a time

  • Into your co-op Other families in your co-op can run it, credited by first name only. There are no ratings and no comments.
  • To the Spatrian library, with consent Staff review it, tidy the wording and publish it credited only by age group, such as “A U14 Spatrian player”. Withdrawing consent takes it down, at any time. A published drill earns a printed certificate.
  • Made by players Published drills sit on their own shelf for every child to play and to start from.
The house rules

What the Drill Designer will never do

Designing is not PE

Making a drill earns XP, and only when a grown-up approves it. It writes no hours to the attendance record and claims no state standard. Playing a drill is logged like any other session.

Their words stay theirs

Nothing your child types is sent to an AI or read by the Audio Coach’s voice. The phone’s own voice reads their steps aloud, on the phone.

Nobody else’s child

No ratings, no rankings and no comparisons between families. A best is the runner’s own.

The same every time

Nothing is random. The same drawing always plays the same way, and a defender’s move follows a rule, not a roll.

Part of the Family plan

The Drill Designer comes with the Family plan and above, beside the curriculum and the Audio Coach. We are opening Spatrian to a small first group of homeschool families, and every one of them has it.

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