Changing lives beyond the classroom
Join us in changing young lives through sport in your school.
Why become a Greenhouse School?
When you partner with Greenhouse, your school gets:
- Experts in positive youth development — With over 20 years’ experience, partnering with 70+ schools, we have demonstrable proof that our model works.
- A full-time qualified Coach-Mentor trained in our Positive Youth Development model and regularly upskilled.
- Targeted support for students who need it most — improving attendance, behaviour, and engagement.
- Year-round impact — before, during, and after school, including holiday programmes for your students.
- Life skills, not just sport — our evidence-based STEP framework builds social, thinking, emotional and physical skills for life.
- A dedicated Relationship Manager to ensure strategic alignment with your School Improvement Plan and provide ongoing senior leadership support.
The benefits:
- Impact on Progress 8 measures – proven success in improving attendance, behaviour, engagement and achievement among priority cohorts
- Targeted enrichment activities and educational visits that align with Ofsted’s wider curriculum intent.
- Structured holiday provision offering safe, purposeful activities that improve pupil wellbeing
- Staff CPD and INSET sessions, led by experienced Coach-Mentors
- Access to Greenhouse’s digital impact platform, providing robust data on pupil progress, engagement, and attendance
- Provision of high-quality sports equipment to enhance curriculum delivery
- Communications support to amplify your school’s successes and strengthen stakeholder engagement.
What do we need from you?
We ask our partner schools to:
- Support the ongoing development of your coach-mentor with time off-court to attend development days, essential training etc.
- Support integration of our Coach-Mentor into your school community.
- Provide access to facilities for delivery and support with timetabling.
- Work collaboratively with our team to identify students who’ll benefit most.
- Help get the best out of your young people and maximise impact of our partnership by supporting data collection (attendance, behaviour, exclusions) to assess outcomes.
“Having somebody as part of a wider organisation with whom we are aligned with on character development is another really important factor – we have close links with another local Greenhouse school, and this connection to Greenhouse Sports allows our children to have opportunities to get out of Leicester, take part in events and meet children from London and other parts of the country. It really helps us drive a sense of ambition and aspiration for our children.”
Jenny Slinger – Head Teacher
Knighton Mead Primary, Leicester