FOR SCHOOLS & SERVICES

School Of Fish takes referrals from schools, youth services, SEND provision and social prescribers. Angling gives a young person a reason to be outdoors, a skill that compounds, and an adult who turns up every fortnight. What we add is a record of it.

THE FRAMEWORK

Every learner works through the School Of Fish Diploma: twenty-five criteria across five awards, each one observable and signed off by a qualified coach against a published standard. There's no marking on a curve and no certificate of attendance. A stamp means the learner did the thing, on the bank, in front of a coach.

THE EVIDENCE

Sign-offs are recorded as they happen: timestamped, per criterion, per learner. When you need evidence for a case file, an EHCP review or a funder, we can show exactly what a learner can now do and when they first did it. We record capability. Conclusions about confidence, behaviour or wellbeing are yours to draw, and you'll have something solid to draw them from.

SAFEGUARDING FIRST

Every coach holds an Enhanced DBS and current safeguarding training. Our Designated Safeguarding Lead is named and reachable, sessions run to fixed ratios, parental consent applies for under-eighteens, and every policy is published at /policies/, not available on request. Our guidance for coaching neurodivergent anglers is published too, and every referred learner starts with a pre-session form the coach reads before the day.

HOW IT WORKS

A first session is free: ninety minutes, one to one, all kit and bait provided. From there, Skills School runs fortnightly at £10 a session, and we build group programmes for schools and services by arrangement. Some learners go the whole way: the Diploma's top tier has them helping newer learners, and at sixteen the coaching pathway opens.

Start with an email to info@schooloffish.co.uk and tell us about the young person or the group.