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Confidence
Knowing what you can do, recognising progress and becoming more willing to attempt what once felt out of reach.
LRL Personal Development
CRACLL.
Personal development, taught on purpose.
CRACLL, pronounced “Crackle”, is LRL Education’s personal-development curriculum and digital mentoring platform. It takes six qualities that young people are often told to “have” and turns them into something adults can teach, pupils can practise and both can review over time.
Staff access and platform information: CRACLL.APP
Why CRACLL exists
We should not tell young people to be resilient, confident or ambitious without teaching them how.
CRACLL breaks broad ideas such as confidence and resilience into teachable behaviours, real situations, structured reflection and small next steps. The aim is not to score a pupil’s personality. It is to help them understand and practise the skills that make education, relationships and adult life easier to navigate.
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Resilience
Responding to setbacks without giving up, using strategies that help and learning how to recover after difficulty.
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Ambition & Purpose
Developing goals that matter, seeing wider possibilities and understanding the steps needed to move towards them.
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Communication
Expressing needs, listening well, handling disagreement and communicating effectively in learning, relationships and everyday life.
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Leadership
Taking responsibility, making sound decisions, influencing others positively and contributing to the group or community.
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Life Skills
Building the practical judgement, independence and everyday skills needed for adulthood, work and community life.
A structured mentoring journey
Structure for the mentor. Space for the pupil.
Mentors have a clear sequence and purposeful prompts, but the conversation still belongs to the pupil. The structure supports consistency without turning mentoring into a questionnaire.
Check in and regulate
Begin with a short regulation check-in. Pupils can use simple visual or rating choices, then decide whether there is something they want or need to talk about.
Learn
Introduce one clear personal-development idea. The mentor has concise teaching points and prompts, so the quality of the session does not depend on whoever happens to be leading it.
Explore
Connect the idea to something real: a lesson, relationship, setback, decision or goal. Examples, scaling and guided questions make reflection more concrete.
Act
Agree one realistic action: something to practise, a conversation to have, a challenge to attempt or a strategy to try before the next review.
Review and evidence
Return to the action and the wider CRACLL domain over time. Staff record what was agreed and what changed, so review is based on evidence rather than memory.
Designed around access
Designed to reduce the demands that can make reflective conversations inaccessible.
CRACLL is not a diagnostic tool and does not replace specialist assessment. Its value is practical: predictable routines, lower language load, visual choices and manageable reflection can help pupils with SEND, SEMH or attendance barriers take part in conversations that might otherwise feel too abstract or demanding.
SENDADHDAutismSEMHEBSAPersistent absenceSevere absence
Design principles
- Predictable session structure
- Short, manageable chunks
- Visual and rating-based reflection
- Choice over how much a pupil shares
- Concrete examples before abstract discussion
- One realistic action rather than multiple targets
- Repeated language across adults and settings
CRACLL.APP
Technology that helps staff prepare, record and review without getting in the way of the relationship.
CRACLL.APP gives staff a common place to prepare mentoring, capture the important points and review progress. The technology supports professional judgement; it does not make decisions for the adult or replace the relationship with the pupil.
Structured mentor guidance
Weekly themes give staff a clear starting point, with key ideas, suggested prompts and follow-up questions that can be adapted to the pupil.
Accessible pupil reflection
Visual choices, rating scales, short prompts and optional open responses reduce unnecessary language and processing demands.
Consistent recording
Mentoring notes, targets and review can sit in one workflow, making it easier to see what has been worked on and what has changed.
AI-assisted staff workflow
AI-assisted tools can help turn spoken staff input into usable records and improve the clarity of reporting, while the adult remains responsible for accuracy and professional judgement.
Progress over time
The same six domains can be used across pupil voice, staff observation, target setting and review, making progress easier to discuss consistently.
One framework across provision
CRACLL is designed to follow the learner across AP, FIREBOX, tuition and outreach, so personal development does not restart every time the setting changes.
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One language, used consistently wherever the learner is taught.
The six domains stay the same across LRL. What changes is how pupils encounter them: through mentoring, lessons, boxing, enrichment, practical challenge or one-to-one tuition.
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Salford Alternative Provision
Daily mentoring, enrichment, reflection and responsibility give pupils repeated opportunities to practise the CRACLL skills.
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LRL:FIREBOX Moss Side
Physical challenge, coaching, education and reflection create a strong context for confidence, resilience, communication and leadership.
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Specialist tuition
Where engagement is a barrier, CRACLL can sit alongside academic learning to rebuild confidence, routine, self-awareness and readiness to learn.
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School outreach
Targeted personal-development work can be delivered in school around the needs of a specific pupil group.
How the LRL model joins up
One relationship. One shared process. One personal-development curriculum.
Every Child Has a Champion makes responsibility personal. The 4Rs give adults and pupils a shared way to regulate, reflect, understand patterns and repair. CRACLL provides the curriculum for the wider skills pupils need to develop over time.
1ChampionA consistent adult who notices, challenges, supports and follows through.
24RsRegulate. Reflect. Reveal. Reconnect.
3CRACLLSix qualities deliberately developed over time.
CRACLL
Personal development should change what a young person can do.
Explore CRACLL.APP, or speak to LRL about how the framework is used across alternative provision, LRL:FIREBOX Moss Side, specialist tuition and school outreach.