For Parents

What a week asks

• A ball, some cones and a patch of ground. Ten metres by ten is enough for most drills; every lesson lists what it needs and what to use instead. The space and equipment page counts how many drills fit yours.
• Lessons run 40 to 60 minutes. The homeschool curriculum is planned at four to five hours a week, and the record counts what was actually done, not the plan.
• A school or club player fits sessions round their team, and a coach you connect can set targets the phone counts.
• Your part is setting up your child’s sign-in, confirming what they claim before it reaches the record, and, if you keep a state record, filing it. Spatrian keeps the record; you file it; your state, district or evaluator decides whether it is enough.

What you control

Each of these is a switch in the app, set per child in Child Settings unless it says otherwise.

• Their own sign-in, 13 and over, with a name and a PIN on a device you set up. You can see the devices they use it on.
• What reaches your paperwork. A lesson your child finishes can land on their record straight away or wait for you to confirm it. Your transcript and grades are hidden from them unless you choose otherwise.
• The AI features, once for the household: nothing goes to the AI service until you allow it, and you can withdraw it at any time. A child cannot allow it.
• Coach Spatrian. Read every conversation on Coach Conversations, switch your child’s chat off, or switch off the topics you would rather it did not discuss. From 16 the chat is your player’s own and you see counts, not words, unless you switch that back.
• Sharing. A teen’s share buttons are off until you turn them on, and they see their own videos unless you turn that off.
• Competing. The Weekly Leaderboard and Pitch Duel are each off until you turn them on, and both use a made-up name. Friends, for a school or club player, is off until you turn it on too.
• Coaches and trainers. Only you connect one, by their code, and you can disconnect them, turn their proposals off and mute their notices.
• Birth month and growth. A coach sees which quarter of the year your child was born in and their growth stage only if you tick it for that coach, and never a height, a weight or a date of birth.
• Their Home. Switch off the optional cards on your child’s Home screen.
• What they see. Hide the pages they do not need on What My Child Sees, or turn on calm mode for less movement and fewer interruptions.
• Quiet hours and a daily cap. A window when their sign-in rests, say 9pm to 7am, and a number of minutes a day. The server holds both, so they are not a screen a teen can close.
• From 16, their own. Their “Done” on a trick or the week’s challenge, their answer to the coach’s “who’s coming?” and their season reports become theirs by default. Each is a switch you can turn back, hours and grades still wait for you, and On Their Own shows what they did.

What reaches you

• One calendar for the family. A private link for Google, Apple or Outlook with every child’s week in it, each event named. A coach’s sessions and matches carry their time and place, with a reminder the evening before.
• The team’s season. Won, drew or lost and each score on My Team, and whether your player was in the squad. It names nobody else.
• A wellbeing check-in. A quick check-in on the day. Sore legs or a bad night only ever make that day’s session lighter, and if most of a fortnight’s check-ins say a low mood, a note asks you to check in with your child. A player filling in their own check-in can also tick On my period: it lightens that day only, and it is kept from you and from any coach.
• If your child referees, a game they flag reaches your bell, and you read every note of thanks before they do. See Referee HQ.
• Your messages. What you wrote to us and our replies, in one place in the app.

The hard parts of a season

• The ride home. After a match or a tryout, your child’s Home asks them one thing: talk now, later or not today. Only that word reaches you, with a line to say that fits it, and the notice on your lock screen says only that there is a note. After a cut, they can turn their drills into up to six weeks towards the next tryout.
• Heading. Headers typed by you or your player, each week set beside U.S. Soccer’s rule up to 13 or The FA’s youth guidance above it, with the source named. While a head injury is open, the page says first that heading is out.
• Rest and load. Organised hours a week against their age, their rest days and their months off soccer, from the team’s calendar and everything logged, with a suggestion when the published guidance says to ease off. It is shown to you only, never to your child, and it changes no session.
• What a season costs. The fees, travel, kit and sessions you type, divided by the sessions and hours they paid for, with a spreadsheet to keep, and a sheet of questions to compare up to three clubs. Nothing is rated.
• Birth month at a tryout. Beside a tryout countdown, a card on when in the selection year your child was born, what that means, and where the Growth Tracker places them: before, in or after the growth spurt.

Your family’s data

• Download everything from the account menu, in one file, on every plan.
• Delete a child’s record from that child’s settings, or the whole account under Your sign-in → Delete my account.
• No sound is recorded when the Audio Coach listens for the ball, and a camera picture stays on the device.
• We do not sell data, show advertising, or use third-party tracking.

The Privacy Policy opens with a short summary and then has every detail.

Safety

How coaches, trainers and other families can and cannot reach your child, what we check and what we do not, and how to report a concern: Safeguarding. Warm-ups, weekly load limits, injuries and heading: Safety at Home.

What it costs

Spatrian is in a free beta. A family given a place who takes part has six free months after it ends, as the Beta Terms describe, and nothing can be bought until then. Join the beta.