For Teachers

Endorsements

Chairman, primary schools

"One of the important aspects is the focus on the key skills of Numeracy, Literacy and ICT, all done in a fun-filled competitive way. Roll on next year!"
Richard Culham, Headteacher, Birchfield Primary School

"The children and staff look forward to this every year. Parents joined in this year too and the competition has been fierce! Brilliantly organised... keep up the great work SFL."
Grant Whitaker, Head of Maths, Gayhurst School

"SFL provides a common interest uniting students, teachers and parents. It can be extremely useful in developing a positive school community."
Dominic Edwards, Head of Maths, University College School

"There is little work for me to do as chairperson of SFL in our school... it has been a big success. SFL has created a really healthy and fun competitiveness within our school with children, staff and parents all taking part. We have thoroughly enjoyed our participation and look forward to having even more participants next season.”
Éanna McAteer, ICT coordinator, St Winefride’s School

“SFL supply you with a range of fantastic prizes that really excite the children and encourage them to take part. The easy to download tables allows me to regularly update my pupils on their progress.”
Cieran Dadds, PE coordinator, Britannia Primary School & Nursery

"SFL has been very enthusiastically received by the school community at St. Francis’ school. Pupils, staff, parents and even the occasion old boy have all taken a great deal of interest in the competition throughout the season. My role as League Chairman has been greatly simplified by the excellent reporting that is produced very promptly each week.

The tables are posted up in the Sports Hall each Monday and generate much friendly banter between everyone involved.

I have also very impressed by the way in which the organisers are keen to avoid resting on their laurels. There appears to be a strong desire to continually improve the product but in a manner that is genuinely useful to participants rather than simply changing things for the sake of doing things differently."
Nick Webb, Head of PTA, St. Francis School

Chairman, secondary schools

"The emails that SFL send are always clear and helpful. Whenever I have sought support I have always had a response on the same day, usually within the hour! SFL staff are always helpful and friendly."
Stephen Giles, Head of maths, Woking High School

"Excellent communication with SFL throughout the season, they make the League Chairman feel valued."
Rob Dovaston, Head of PE, Castle Hill Middle School

"SFL is always popular and is constantly going from strength to strength. It always promotes healthy debate between the staff and the pupils when the table gets put up on a Monday - especially over dodgy player choices and poor performance! In fact many of the staff are more competitive than the pupils when it comes to making those transfers!"
Gareth Brown, Head of Languages, Winton School

"Our schools first season using SFL has been tremendous, the interaction it has given between students and pupils is extremely positive providing developments in their maths and ICT skills in one easy to access package!."
Tim Hardy, Teacher of Physical Education, The Hermitage School

"I have really enjoyed being League Chairman and would like you to know what a fabulous job you all do - your website is stunningly efficient and effective."
Jill Ashton, Science teacher & form tutor, Sheffield Springs Academy

"SFL helps students understand maths in society today. It demonstrates to them how important budgeting and problem-solving skills are in everyday life. It helps to contextualise maths for students of all ages and makes realistic links to the world of football. It has given our department a real boost."
Juliet Tedds, Learning Director & Chairman, Kingsbrook School

"This was our first year playing SFL and the competition between staff and pupils has been amazing. Monday mornings is pure banter in the staff room and in the playground among competitors. Definitely fun for everyone!"
Dan Franklin, PE and maths teacher, Brixham College

Educationalists

"SFL gives students a genuine reason to use mathematics. The more effort they put into analysing the data, the more likely they are to do well in the league. It is a great way to motivate students to use mathematics creatively."
Association of Teachers of Mathematics

"SFL is a innovative programme which successfully bridges business and education through the reality of football management. It enables young people to gain a greater understanding of management issues including budgetary control, decision-making and analysis through the world of Premier League football."
Declan Swan, CEO, National Education Business Partnership network

"Many areas of the curriculum are catered for on the website and ideas for teachers are provided specifically in maths and ICT, but also in science, design technology, citizenship, English and history. Schools Fantasy League run the activity and provide everything for schools and participants through their website. Many ideas for extension work with pupils are given through materials downloadable from the site. An added bonus is that it is obvious that parents, especially Dads, have had some involvement (in the programme), providing a loose home-school link."
Schoolzone evaluation, to read it in full click here

"This product is of exceptional quality. I cannot praise this resource highly enough. Any school that uses Schools Fantasy League will find that students will take an interest in aspects of the Curriculum that they have not been interested in before. This is a very, very powerful product, with incredible potential."
TEEM evaluations, to read it in full click here

Pupils

Jon, aged 14, "I think that this game is excellent, and I would definitely compete next time. I love the way you can start out badly, and move your way up to the top! I won a Manager of the Month certificate too, which was fun!"

Tom, aged 12, "This is the greatest online football managing game on the internet."

Stewart, aged 16, "I am finding this amazing... it has allowed me to show people my knowledge of football. The makers of this are genius's."

Greg, aged 14, "I think this is a great way to have fun, and beat your teachers"

Lewis, aged 13, ""After playing SFL I would like to be a real football manager - buying and selling football players is the best bit""

Connor aged 11, "SFL helps to make dreams a reality. When will I ever have £70 million to spend?"

Parents

Mrs Julie Thomas parent of Year 7 pupil, "I was delighted to hear that Georgina was involved again in SFL at school. It is one activity I can rely on to keep her interested in maths! Also it has such a good reputation I can be sure that internet site will be safely monitored"

Mr A Galloway, parent of Rory, "May I commend you upon an excellent concept - my son spends quite some time working through your site and others checking team news, and we are delighted at the improvement this has had upon his computer skills."

Mrs J Thomson, parent of Gemma, "SFL certainly provided opportunities for parents to get involved in our child's learning. Discussions about the budgets Gemma was allocated as an SFL manager and what players she was going to choose were the topics of conversation at home for many weeks!"

Mr James Clark-Dick, parent of Alison, "SFL is a very useful educational tool. Because the topic is football it helps to focus childrens' minds. It helps teach about budgeting, tactical moves with player exchanges, decision-making, spotting opportunities and it is also a good way of encouraging parents to help their children."