15/06/2026
Joining is not the finish line.
It’s the start of the most fragile part of the student journey.
A new student is still deciding:
Do I belong here?
Can I keep this up?
Is my child enjoying it?
Are we seeing progress?
Is this worth the money?
If there’s no welcome, no check-in, no attendance follow-up and no early progress made visible, new students can drift before they ever become proper long-term members.
That’s not always a class problem.
Sometimes it’s a system problem.
One of the pages inside The Leaky Dojo Workbook helps you review the first 30 days properly:
– welcome message
– first class check-in
– attendance tracking
– early wins
– missed class follow-up
– first milestone explained
Small stuff.
Massive difference.
The workbook is £9 here: https://prodojo.co.uk/b/AUQFm
Retention starts earlier than most schools think.