For schools · ages 5–14
Launch your character programme for free.
Earn Your Stripes is a complete whole-school character programme for every year group from 5 to 14. The platform, safeguarding pack and launch kit are all included from day one — your school only pays when pupils take part.
Free to launch · Safeguarding-first · Predictable budgeting
What you get on day one
A character programme that respects your time and budget.
Free to launch
No setup fee. Unlimited pupil records during pilot. The full programme runs from day one — nothing for your school to procure.
Safeguarding-first
DSL view, single-use third-party links, EXIF stripping, content moderation and a tamper-evident audit trail — built in, not bolted on.
Compliance included
Sample DPIA, GDPR documentation, KCSIE guidance, ICO Children’s Code self-assessment and UK data residency confirmation — ready for your DPO.
Light teacher workload
15–20 minutes a week clears a form tutor’s swipeable approval queue. Both schemes appear in one place.
Predictable budgeting
Buy an Active Pupil Pack in advance. You spend a place only when a pupil takes part — never for sign-ups or inactive accounts.
Outcomes you can show
Real recognition for sustained effort across kindness, consistency and capability — captured as evidence, not anecdote, and mapped to the new Ofsted framework.
Everything you need, included
No setup fee. No procurement loop. No surprises.
Schools shouldn’t have to navigate procurement, write a DPIA from scratch or design a launch assembly to try a new character programme. Every school gets all of this for free.
Platform & workflows
- School account and administration portal
- Form teacher, parent and pupil accounts
- Activity tracking and evidence uploads
- Third-party verification workflow
- Form tutor approval workflow
- Safeguarding workflows and DSL view
- Full, tamper-evident audit trail
Safeguarding & compliance
Pre-built, so procurement doesn’t slow you down.
- Sample DPIA, ready for your DPO
- Data flow diagrams and sub-processor list
- KCSIE-aligned safeguarding documentation
- UK GDPR and ICO Children’s Code self-assessment
- UK data residency confirmation (Azure UK South)
School launch kit
Everything you need to roll it out next Monday.
- Launch assembly PowerPoint and script
- Teacher guide and roll-out checklist
- Parent information flyer and email templates
- Digital posters and social media graphics
- Drop-in copy for your school website
Getting started
Up and running this term.
Register your school
Sign up in minutes — no setup fee, no procurement battle. Your safeguarding pack and launch kit unlock immediately.
Add your pupils
Bulk-import with a CSV, or add classes by hand. Pupils are auto-sorted into Tiger Stripes or Earn Your Stripes by year group.
Invite families
Parents of under-13s get a secure magic link. Pupils aged 13+ sign in directly.
Run the launch assembly
Use the supplied PowerPoint, script and posters. Pupils start logging activity the same day — at no cost to your school.
Sign off in minutes a week
Form tutors clear a swipeable approval queue — both schemes in one place — in 15–20 minutes a week.
Pay only for active pupils
Your Active Pupil Pack only counts a place once a pupil shows meaningful participation. Sign-ups and inactive accounts are always free.
Predictable budgeting
You only pay when a pupil takes part.
A place is only spent when a pupil shows meaningful participation. Sign-ups, invitations and first-day exploration never cost anything. A place from your Active Pupil Pack is only spent once a pupil shows meaningful participation — and that place covers them across both schemes and every tier they earn.
See Active Pupil PacksWhat it changes for your school
Outcomes, not just outputs.
A genuine character culture, not a wall display
Children, parents and teachers earn Bronze, Silver and Gold together — a shared language for kindness, grit and capability that lasts beyond a single term.
Recognition for the pupils your other awards miss
The quiet child who looks after a younger sibling. The pupil who never wins a sports trophy but trains every week. Earn Your Stripes sees and recognises sustained, real-world effort.
Evidence the school can show — without extra teacher work
A tamper-evident audit trail of every approval, sign-off and earned tier. Useful for inspection conversations under the new Ofsted framework; invisible during a teaching day.