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BecomingX Education is a digital platform for schools focused on personal development, helping educators teach the personal attributes needed to succeed. 

Our Home Edition is also available for homeschoolers and parents. Home Edition is designed to be facilitated by a parent or older child, not for self study. We are working on an individual learning programme for the future.

The annual subscription includes:

1) Library: World-class content based on leading educational, psychological and neuroscientific research. Every lesson is introduced by Bear Grylls and comes with slides, films, lesson plans, activities and resources - at the touch of a button. Over 200 lessons, assemblies, discussions and stand-alone activities to enable staff to consistently deliver key messages and get students engaged. Plus a collection of clips that can be used to supplement any lesson with inspiring insights, from physics to geography.

2) Cinema: Short films with the world's most inspiring and iconic people, sharing their insights on what it takes to succeed.

3) Tools: Practical resources and guidance to help deliver a world-class personal development programme. This includes filmed interviews from leading educators, academics and experts, tools to help facilitate the process and external research and links to support with fulfilling statutory requirements. We also have printable, customisable certificates to help celebrate achievement.

4) Surveys: A digital survey to understand how your students see their personal development progress. Easy to administer, with detailed reports and analysis, educators can develop robust strategies and interventions based on accurate data and track progress over time. (Not available for Primary)

5) Experiences: Virtual and international experiences to help students learn in practice. This includes a curated collection of virtual experiences as well as international expeditions delivered by an award-winning adventure travel company.

There are a number of benefits for students, staff and institutions:

Students
- Increased engagement: Students love our content - it is highly engaging, interactive, presented by Bear Grylls, has insights from their heroes, and features real-world and practical activities
- Greater understanding of success: Our lessons cover the skills, attitudes, knowledge and relationships needed to succeed (with real-world examples), including how to support physical and mental health
- Exciting experiences: Our international expeditions provide life-changing opportunities to learn in practice

Staff
- Significant time saving: Staff get access to age and outcome specific 'plug and play' lessons, assemblies and discussions, complete with full lesson plans and resources, saving significant research and preparation time
- World-class quality: Our heavily researched content is produced with the highest production values possible, allowing teachers to focus on doing what they do best

Institutions
- Tools: Practical resources to design and deliver high-performance personal development programmes across the whole institution
- Measurable impact: Surveys allow institutions to get detailed understanding of their students' perspectives allowing schools to design tailored programmes and to analyse the impact of their interventions

At the most fundamental level, we help students to develop the personal attributes - the skills, knowledge, attitudes and relationships - needed to succeed. 

This type of education goes by many names; 'character education', 'PHSE', 'social and emotional learning', 'essential skills', 'life skills', 'employability skills', 'skills to succeed', 'soft skills'.

Specifically, the attributes we aim to build are - 
1) Skills: Solution finder, effective communicator, team player, inspiring leader
2) Knowledge: Lifelong learner, healthy performer, expert practitioner, reflective thinker
3) Attitudes: Ambitious dreamer, go getter, resilient survivor
4) Relationships: Respectful operator, tribe builder, deal maker

See 'Science of success' for more information on the 14 attributes we focus on (based on indepth research). 

UK Only - While the PSHE Association no longer quality assures 'whole programmes' like BecomingX Education, all of our lessons have been designed based on the ten principles of effective PSHE education. Click here to see the Curriculum mapping against PHSE requirements.

BecomingX Education is available for Primary schools (ages 8-11), or Secondary/All-Through (which contains all content for ages 8-18). Home Edition includes content for ages 8-18.

You can test out either platform by signing up to a free preview 'Lite' account. Preview accounts do not expire - take as long as you like to look around! 

If you are a MAT or Corporate and would like to subscribe or sponsor multiple schools, please contact us.

For Schools, the annual subscription fee is all-inclusive regardless of how many users you have on your account, they just have to be part of your institution.

Home Edition is designed for use in the home environment by parents who wish to supplement their children's personal development education, and homeschoolers who are looking for support in teaching personal development (also known as PHSE or character education). Home Edition is designed to be a facilitated learning experience. We provide a comprehensive lesson plan, activity handouts where needed and guidance for supporting learning, to make delivering our lessons as easy as possible. Content is designed for children aged 8 - 18, with increasing levels of difficulty.

We have a student-led app in development, as part of our future release plans.

You can use your Home Edition subscription in your own home with more than one child (such as siblings, or in your homeschooling pod). We do not charge extra for siblings. Your BecomingX Education Home Edition subscription is unique and personal to you and your household. It cannot be shared with multiple households or families who do not share your residential address.

As per our Terms and Conditions, you cannot use Home Edition in a classroom setting, or with a youth group. Schools, colleges and youth groups are able to subscribe to BecomingX Education for Schools.

Yes. The preview versions of both BecomingX Education for Schools and Home Edition are free. For schools this includes one lesson per year group and for home schoolers we have two taster lessons for you to try. There are also a subset of features available for both.

Preview versions do not expire, take as long as you like to look around! Schools can add multiple users onto their free preview accounts.

Yes - absolutely. If you are a parent, alumni, small business or corporate who wishes to support your local school or a group of schools by sponsoring their subscription to BecomingX Education, please contact us.

To purchase BecomingX Education for Schools or Home Edition you can subscribe online through our website which connects to Stripe (we accept Direct Debit, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Delta and Maestro credit and debit cards. We also accept PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay). When you sign up online your access will be immediate. You will need to verify your email and set a password, the verification email will arrive as a separate email to your purchase confirmation. Verification emails are sent immediately - please check your junk email if it doesn't appear in your inbox within a couple of minutes. Once you have verified your email and set your password, you will have immediate access to the platform.

If you need to use a Purchase Order and be issued an invoice to be paid by BACS, please contact us.

We offer a full refund on all platforms within 14 days of purchase, after which we are unable to provide a full or partial refund.

Simply click on the link in the email you have received and you will be prompted to enter your Activation Code. You will then be guided through the login process and able to set your own password. Once you are logged in you can add your colleagues onto the system.

Activation Codes only need to be used once - after that the primary administrator can add additional users.

If you already have a preview subscription you won't be able to use a code to upgrade - please contact us and we'll fix it for you!

Please contact us if you are having any issues at all redeeming your Activation Code and we will aim to sort this straight away!

If you get an 'incorrect credentials' error there are two possible causes:

1) Case sensitivity on email address & password. Please be aware that email addresses are case sensitive, and must match the email address you first entered on the system! Contact us to check if you're not sure and we'll help you out. 

2) In some instances if you abandon your purchase process half way through and then go back in later, this may cause an incorrect credentials error. Our lovely tech team are working on a fix for this! If this happens to you, please contact us and we will unstick you.

If you are not seeing the content you expect, the most likely situation is that your subscription has expired and you have been downgraded to our 'free' preview version.

Contact your School Administrator to check on the status of your account. If you are not sure who that person is, their name will be visible on the Survey page in the Control Panel. 

If you are the School Administrator, you can renew your subscription through your account settings if you wish to pay by credit card or contact us to arrange a purchase order and BACS invoice.