A match every week.
A record that writes itself.
Most PE programmes give you a plan and leave you to remember it. The Season gives your week a shape: five challenges, about forty minutes in the backyard, a result, and a table that keeps itself — and every minute you play lands on your attendance record without you writing anything down.
The week has somewhere to arrive
A child in a club has a season: training builds towards Saturday, Saturday produces a result, and the results add up to something. A child doing PE at home has a spreadsheet. The Season is the missing half — the same rhythm, run in your own backyard, with nobody to organise and nowhere to drive.
Play it — about forty minutes
Five challenges, one at a time. The app reads the setup and the protocol aloud so you can watch your child rather than a screen, runs the clock where a challenge needs one, and takes the number — typed, or spoken if your hands are full.
It works outdoors on no signal. Nothing needs downloading and nothing needs printing.
Settle it — about five minutes
The match is scored, the result goes on the table, and the minutes go onto your attendance record as documented instruction. You can add a sentence about how the week went, which prints in your portfolio beside the result.
Then next week’s match is revealed — which is the bit that brings a family back.
The week picks itself, from what we already know
You are not choosing five drills every Sunday. The match is built from your own child’s record — and it tells you why each challenge is in it, so you can judge whether it chose well.
An example match. Every week spans technical, physical and decision work rather than five variations of the same thing, and the rotation reaches all thirteen challenges over a term. If the growth tracker says your child is in a growth spurt, the most demanding physical challenge comes out of the match that week — the load moves, instead of a note telling you to watch out. The ceilings it stays under, by age band, are on the safety page.
You play the standard, not another family’s child
Every match has an opponent and a number to beat. The opponent is a fixed rung on a ladder — a target for the age band — not a person. Beat it and you take three points; come within a whisker and it is a draw. Three wins in a row moves you up a rung, and the opponent gets harder.
Five of the seven rungs. The top one plays against your child’s own best score, so it gets harder exactly as fast as they do — and never easier.
| Season | P | W | D | L | Pts | Form |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026/27 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 19 | DWWWW |
One row, because there is only ever one child in this table. Spatrian does not rank children against each other and does not run a leaderboard across families — that is a deliberate decision, not a feature we have not got round to.
What a score is, and what it is not
Every challenge has a target for your child’s age band, and hitting it exactly is worth 100 points. Beat it and you score more. The match score is the average across the challenges you actually played.
A target is ours, not a national standard
The targets are Spatrian’s own, set so a child has something to beat. They are not percentiles and not published norms, and no page in the product presents them as either. If you want your child measured against published reference data, that is what the Home Combine does, four times a year, citing its sources.
Skipping a challenge does not score zero
You may not own a skipping rope this week, or have room for the shuttles. Challenges you skip are left out of the average rather than counted against you, and nothing is ever filled in from a previous week to make a match look complete.
A week you could not finish still happened
Matches get interrupted — that is normal with a child. An unfinished match is kept with whatever you played rather than deleted, and if you come back the same day it offers to pick up where you stopped instead of starting again.
The paperwork happens while you play
This is the part that matters when an evaluator asks. Every match you settle writes its minutes to your attendance record as documented PE instruction — the same record your lessons write to, feeding the same hours total, the same portfolio and the same transcript. There is no second place to log it and nothing to re-enter.
In your portfolio
Completed matches print as a Season Record section: each week’s date, target, score, result, minutes and your own observation, plus your child’s best mark on every challenge.
Checkable by an evaluator
You can issue the season as a single record with a fingerprint registered on our public verification page, so anyone holding your printed copy can confirm we produced exactly that document.
Your sentence, not ours
The weekly note can be drafted from the match’s own numbers to save you staring at a blank box — but nothing is saved until you edit it and press save. Only a note you confirmed reaches the portfolio.
A season record carries no grade and no credits, because it is evidence of instruction rather than an academic assessment. Your transcript is still the document that does that job.
Two children, and a fair fight
Siblings train together and are rarely the same age, so comparing their scores would settle nothing except who is older. The family head-to-head compares each child against their own target — which differs by age band, and by how far up the ladder they have climbed — and the winner is whoever beat theirs by most.
The younger one can win
That is the whole point of the handicap. A thirteen-year-old having a good week beats a seventeen-year-old sibling having an ordinary one, and both of them can see why.
A child who has not played yet is named as not having played, rather than quietly left out of the list.
Co-ops add up, they do not line up
A co-op sees what the group has done together: matches played, hours of instruction, and how many children have a season running — counts, in the shape of “six of eight children have played four or more matches”.
There is no per-child row, no scores and no order. Other people’s children are not in your table and yours are not in theirs.
Give the week a shape
The Season is included on every paid plan, for U14–U18, alongside the curriculum, the compliance documentation and everything else. One subscription covers your whole family.