How Milk Education Supports Schools Beyond Staffing Through Unbottled
Schools need more than staffing support.
They need trusted partners who understand the pressures of the school day, the importance of safeguarding, the complexity of pupil wellbeing and the need for meaningful conversations that support young people beyond the classroom.
Milk Education supports schools with supply teachers, teaching assistants, SEND support staff, cover supervisors, long-term staffing and permanent recruitment. But we also know that schools often need support that goes beyond recruitment.
That is why Milk Education powers
Unbottled.
Unbottled is Milk Education’s lived-experience enrichment programme. It helps schools strengthen culture, wellbeing and pupil voice through stigma-breaking PSHE sessions, assemblies, workshops, staff training, parent sessions and whole-school support.
Why schools need support beyond recruitment
Staffing matters. The right adults in school can provide consistency, stability and support for pupils. But many of the challenges schools face are not solved by staffing alone.
Schools are supporting pupils through mental health concerns, online safety issues, peer pressure, exploitation, bullying, racism, body image, vaping, identity, belonging, unhealthy relationships and transition anxiety.
These are the conversations pupils may be experiencing but not always expressing.
Unbottled helps schools open those conversations safely. Through lived-experience speakers and interactive sessions, pupils are encouraged to reflect, ask questions, build empathy and develop practical strategies they can use inside and outside school.
What makes Unbottled different?
Unbottled is not a standard assembly. It is built on real stories, real conversations and real change. Speakers bring lived experience into school settings in a way that is honest, age-appropriate and carefully safeguarded.
Sessions are interactive, energetic and student-led. They use storytelling, real-life scenarios, discussion, activities, Q&As, games and crowd participation to help pupils feel seen, heard and engaged.
Schools can explore
Unbottled’s whole-school approach
to understand how sessions are planned around pupil need, school context and follow-up support.
Supporting PSHE, RSHE and Personal Development
Unbottled sessions are designed to support PSHE, RSHE and Ofsted Personal Development priorities. For schools, this means sessions are not just powerful. They are purposeful.
Topics include mental health, knife crime and exploitation, racism, body positivity, healthy relationships, LGBTQ+ identities, resilience, online safety, vaping and drugs, SEND awareness, bullying, identity and belonging, financial wellbeing and transition support.
Explore the topics Unbottled covers.
How Milk Education and Unbottled work together
Milk Education supports schools with staffing. Unbottled supports schools with pupil-facing enrichment and lived-experience learning.
A school may need supply cover from Milk Education and a PSHE drop-down day from Unbottled. Another school may need SEND staffing support alongside workshops around neurodiversity, belonging or emotional wellbeing.
Milk Education helps schools find the right people. Unbottled helps schools open the right conversations.
Speak to Milk Education
If your school needs supply teachers, teaching assistants, SEND staff, cover supervisors or long-term staffing support, call Milk Education on
0333 360 1110.
If your school is looking for
lived-experience speakers,
PSHE workshops, whole-school takeovers, staff training or parent sessions,
contact Unbottled
or email
hello@unbottled.co.uk.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Unbottled?
Unbottled is Milk Education’s lived-experience enrichment programme, supporting schools with PSHE sessions, assemblies, workshops, staff training, parent sessions and whole-school support.
How does Unbottled support schools?
Unbottled helps schools strengthen culture, wellbeing and pupil voice through lived-experience sessions linked to PSHE, RSHE, safeguarding and Personal Development.
How does Milk Education support schools?
Milk Education supports schools with supply teachers, teaching assistants, SEND support staff, cover supervisors, long-term staffing and permanent recruitment.
Can schools use Milk Education and Unbottled together?
Yes. Schools can work with Milk Education for staffing support and Unbottled for pupil-facing enrichment, PSHE workshops and whole-school support.
How can my school contact Milk Education?
Schools can call Milk Education on
0333 360 1110
or visit
Unbottled
for school speaker and enrichment support.
