Parent and carer guide
Two pages explaining VESPA, the student journey and practical support at home.
Posters & Launch Materials
Good study habits.
Better conversations.
Help your young person build confidence, independence and effective learning habits with VESPA.
Different students. Different strengths.
A useful next step for everyone.Illustrative students from the VESPA website story.Free to read, share and print. No login required.
Try VESPA with your students
Book a VESPA demo to unlock our ready-to-use taster pack: 12 tutor slides, student reflection and activity sheets, and delivery notes. We will email your personal access link after your booking is confirmed.
Book a demo and unlock the taster packAlready subscribing or on an active free trial? Open the pack directly from Resources. Or start a free 14-day Coaching Portal trial.
Tutor slides and student worksheets
Use the new 12-slide VESPA taster session, reflection sheet, Closed Book Notetaking Practice worksheet and tutor delivery notes with your students.
Open teaching materials in ResourcesAvailable to portal customers and active free trials, without the marketing form or demo booking.
Classroom posters
Find the existing VESPA posters covering the five habits, coaching profiles and student report guide.
Open VESPA postersWhat is VESPA?
VESPA helps students reflect on Vision, Effort, Systems, Practice and Attitude. With support from school, they use a questionnaire, feedback, reflection and goals to choose useful changes to their learning habits.
The questionnaire is a starting point for discussion. Scores are not grades or fixed labels.
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Vision Knowing where you want to go
Talk about interests, future plans and what makes learning worthwhile.
“What would you like to work towards?”
E
Effort Putting purposeful work into learning
Help them make time for focused study and recognise the effort behind progress.
“Which piece of work needs your attention this week?”
S
Systems Organising time and resources
Encourage a realistic weekly plan, a useful workspace and a way to track deadlines.
“What would make your week easier to organise?”
P
Practice Using effective study strategies
Encourage self-testing, practice questions and revisiting learning over time.
“How could you check what you can remember?”
A
Attitude Responding constructively to challenges
Listen when things feel difficult and help them choose a manageable next step.
“What did you learn from that setback?”
Read, personalise and print
Download the flyer as a high-resolution image
Open any HTML material below and use the Weglot language widget to translate it. Add school details where needed, then choose Print / save as PDF to save or print that language. The downloadable PDFs are English originals. The downloaded ZIP also includes the HTML files, images and plain-text letter for offline use.
A4 launch flyer
A one-page introduction for induction packs, newsletters and parents’ evenings. Edit the school contact before sharing.
Editable school letter
Customise school name, dates and contact details. Copy the text into your school email or print it on headed paper.
Parents’ evening briefing
Five landscape pages for presenting or printing. Add your school contact before sharing.
See the student experience
The walkthrough uses fictional student data. Features and school arrangements may vary.
Activities for independent development
VESPA continues beyond the questionnaire. Students can use activities in the portal to build their Vision, Effort, Systems, Practice and Attitude between tutor conversations.
- Choose a focus: use the report and goals to identify a habit to develop.
- Learn and try: work through guidance and put a practical strategy into action.
- Reflect: consider what helped, what was difficult and what to change.
- Use it again: bring the strategy into everyday study and discuss progress with the tutor.
Activities may be recommended or assigned by school. Students can also explore available activities themselves. Ask your young person: “Which activity did you try, and what will you use again?”
Explore the fictional activities walkthroughApps and access
The VESPA student app
Students can download the app and sign in with the account or sign-in method provided by their school. The browser version is available too.
How do parents see reports?
If your school shares a parent report, it will send you a separate link and access instructions. You do not need your child's login. Ask your school about its reporting arrangements.
Who can help?
For programme dates, student access or learning support, contact your young person's tutor or the school VESPA lead.
For staff: before you send the pack
- Open the letter and replace all bracketed school details, dates and contacts.
- Add the school contact to the flyer and the final briefing slide.
- Download the generic guide and attach it to your school email.
- Check the public page and app store links after deployment before distributing QR codes.
The print PDFs contain generic templates. Use the editable versions to produce school-specific copies. Use the Weglot widget on the HTML pages for other languages. Illustrative screenshots and logos remain images; all guidance and template text is available as translatable HTML.