INSET AI Workshop: Three Micro-Routines
August 25, 2025
This ready-to-run INSET Day workshop helps staff move from general AI awareness to three agreed, policy-aligned micro-routines: lesson planning, feedback preparation, and parent/carer communications. It centres on one shared safety protocol so staff can use AI confidently without drifting into risky data use, unreliable outputs, or inconsistent practice. You’ll get a choose-your-length run sheet, a slide-by-slide deck outline, activities that produce tangible artefacts, and a 30-day implementation plan with simple evidence capture to evaluate impact on workload and quality.
AI Copilot Playbook for Timetabling and Cover
August 20, 2025
Timetabling and daily cover are high-stakes operational puzzles, but AI is not a magic solver—and it should not replace your MIS or timetabling engine. This playbook shows how operations teams can use AI as a “copilot” to structure constraints, generate workable options, and stress-test plans before anything is published. You’ll see practical ways to model staff availability, PPA, room features, SEND needs, and policy rules, while keeping decisions auditable with human sign-off. Includes a 30-day pilot plan with success measures and risk controls.
Refreshing Your AI Acceptable Use Policy
August 18, 2025
An AI Acceptable Use Policy written once and filed away won’t keep pace with tools, assessments, and expectations in 2025–26. This guide reframes your AUP as a living “AI Use & Integrity Agreement” with an annual July/August refresh you can actually run. You’ll find a 12-point checklist, practical assessment boundaries, and data protection defaults that reduce risk by design. It also covers stakeholder sign-off, clear pupil and parent/carer communications, and a simple monitoring loop that supports learning without turning school into a surveillance project.
Gy25 and LGR22: Sweden’s double curriculum reform
August 15, 2025
Sweden’s Years 7–9 teachers are being asked to hold two truths at once: keep LGR22 teaching steady, while preparing pupils for Gy25’s ämnesbetyg in upper secondary. This classroom-first guide explains what sits where in 2025–26, what changes in grading philosophy, and what you can shift now without rewriting schemes. Using one 8-lesson argumentative writing unit, it shows how “late improvement counts” can become a normal learning loop through feedback, evidence collection, and pupil habits that travel smoothly into Gy25.
National Curriculum and AI: 2025–26 changes
August 13, 2025
2025–26 brings sharper, more practical expectations for how schools manage AI: clearer boundaries for assessment integrity, more explicit teaching of AI literacy, and stronger evidence that data protection and procurement are under control. This implementation pack turns DfE, Ofqual and JCQ guidance into “what changes on Monday morning”: policy updates, role-based actions, and a printable checklist you can evidence to governors. It is designed for SLT, safeguarding, exams, IT/DPO and subject leaders who need consistency, not more documents.
Back to School AI Toolkit 2025
August 11, 2025
A back-to-school AI plan succeeds when it is small, predictable and safe enough to run during busy weeks. This article sets out a ‘minimum viable’ toolkit for 2025: one assistant, one writing space, one image tool and one accessibility layer, with default privacy settings that reduce risk without blocking useful practice. You’ll also find procurement questions, role-based workflows, and a 30-day rollout checklist designed to prevent tool sprawl and protect staff workload.
Clearing Control Room: AI-Assisted UCAS Decisions
August 6, 2025
Clearing moves fast, but students deserve decisions that are calm, evidence-led and properly recorded. This ‘Clearing Control Room’ workflow gives sixth forms a time-boxed pipeline (15–30 minutes per student) that uses AI to generate option comparisons, question lists and call scripts without handing judgement to a tool. It centres minimum-data prompts, bias and safeguarding challenge passes, and a mandatory staff sign-off record for every recommendation. Use it to reduce errors, improve equity, and keep student agency at the centre.
UK Results-Season AI Playbook
August 4, 2025
Results season can feel like a rush of numbers, narratives and urgent decisions. This playbook shows departments and SLT how to use AI to turn GCSE and A-level outcomes into actionable teaching priorities—without feeding pupil-identifiable data into tools. You’ll see what to export (and what to strip out), how to spot cohort and subgroup patterns safely, and how to translate question-level weaknesses into reteach sequences, retrieval and targeted practice. It also includes a simple governance checklist and sign-off chain.
Summer Reading Intervention with AI
July 29, 2025
Summer reading can slip quietly, especially for pupils who need extra practice with decoding, fluency and vocabulary. This article sets out a structured, evidence-based intervention that uses AI only behind the scenes as a coach for adults (and, where appropriate, older pupils). You’ll get a 15–25 minute daily routine, dyslexia-friendly adjustments, privacy-safe reading logs, and family scripts that reduce friction. Two ready-to-run pathways (a 10-day boost and a 4-week bridge) include check-ins, prompts, troubleshooting, and a September handover so learning carries back into class.
Meta Llama 4 decision pack for schools
July 24, 2025
Meta’s Llama models have made “open” AI feel within reach for schools, but the practical decision is rarely about hype. It is about governance, safeguarding, data protection, and whether your team can operate a model safely over time. This decision pack helps school leaders choose between adopting a vendor-hosted Llama 4 service, commissioning a managed private instance, self-hosting, or waiting. It includes minimum-data patterns, total cost of ownership factors, classroom-safe use cases, a clear decision matrix against proprietary models, and a “Llama 4 watch” checklist if Llama 4 has not launched yet.
ECT/NQT AI First-Term Operating Manual
July 18, 2025
This guide is a practical first-term “operating manual” for ECTs/NQTs using AI safely and sustainably. You’ll set a small number of default micro-routines for planning, differentiation, feedback preparation and parent communication—each designed to take around ten minutes and reduce decision fatigue. You’ll also get clear red lines for data protection, safeguarding, assessment integrity and copyright, plus a week-by-week checklist to align with school policy. The aim is simple: protect pupils, protect your professionalism, and protect your workload and wellbeing.
AI-Enhanced Summer Catch-Up Micro-Cycles
July 16, 2025
Summer catch-up works best when it is small, specific, and visibly effective. This article offers a practical 2–4 week ‘micro-cycle’ model that keeps teachers firmly in charge while using AI to speed up gap diagnosis, generate retrieval practice, and tighten feedback loops. You’ll find minimum-data routines, clear checkpoints, and simple measures that avoid over-testing. It also includes parent/carer communication templates, inclusion adjustments, and device-light options so the programme is workable across diverse settings.
EU AI Act Meets LGR22: What Swedish Schools Must Know
July 15, 2025
Swedish schools are increasingly using AI for planning, feedback, communication and administration, yet the EU AI Act reframes parts of “education AI” as potentially high-risk. This does not mean schools must stop innovating. It means they must show that AI use supports LGR22’s fundamental values: democracy, human rights and ethics. This guide translates the EU AI Act into day-to-day school practice, focusing on transparency, human oversight and data minimisation. You’ll get a vendor checklist, a lightweight documentation pack, and a 30‑day plan for calm compliance.
Accessibility Tech: Mid-2025 Consolidation Guide
July 14, 2025
Mid-2025 has brought plenty of accessibility headlines, but the bigger win for schools is consolidation: standardising what you already have across Apple, Google, Microsoft and ChromeOS. This guide focuses on what has genuinely changed since early 2025, the “default settings” worth adopting, and the AI features that help in practice (plus the ones that quietly mislead). You’ll find repeatable classroom routines, procurement questions to prevent an inclusion lottery, and a refreshed minimum viable inclusion stack designed for mixed-device schools.
Summer AI Challenge Ladder
July 9, 2025
The Summer AI Challenge Ladder is a simple, four-week set of missions that helps students use AI thoughtfully across subjects, even with mixed device access at home. Each week offers a choice board with clear time boxes, plus low-device alternatives so nobody is excluded. A paper-first evidence pack keeps learning visible through prompt logs, verification checks, and reflection. The programme ends with a family-friendly showcase using a rubric that rewards habits and thinking over polished outputs.