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Announcing our exciting Partnership with St Teresa of Calcutta Catholic Academy Trust 🌟

Announcing our exciting Partnership with St Teresa of Calcutta Catholic Academy Trust 🌟

We’re thrilled to announce our collaboration with the St Teresa of Calcutta Catholic Academy Trust, a large multi-academy trust that is paving the way for innovation in education! šŸŽ“ Right now, St Teresa of Calcutta Catholic Academy Trust is trialling Teachmate with 70 teachers and senior leaders and we’re excited to see this initiative grow.

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Teachmate complies with DfE AI product safety expectations

Teachmate complies with DfE AI product safety expectations

Teachmate’s CEO, Dr Jon Chippindall, along with other leading organisations from the tech sector, recently joined Ministers Stephen Morgan MP and Feryal Clark MP to officially lend their support to the DfE’s Generative AI: product safety expectations. Teachmate was involved in reviewing the development of the Safety Standards and complies with all the standards presented

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Teachmate receives some of the highest recommendation scores in latest Teacher Tapp report!

Teachmate receives some of the highest recommendation scores in latest Teacher Tapp report!

We’re delighted to announce that we’ve been featured in the latest Teacher Tapp report ā€˜AI Spy: Tracking the AI Tools Teachers Use’. Teacher Tapp is a daily survey app for teachers to answer questions that allow their collective opinions to be heard and used to inform school leaders, media, policymakers, and organisations. We loved reading the report, which is packed

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A full team day out at Bett 2025 and announcing our latest award win! šŸ†

A full team day out at Bett 2025 and announcing our latest award win! šŸ†

We had an absolutely amazing time at the 2025 Bett Show with the entire Teachmate team yesterday! We all headed down to London from across England and Wales to experience Bett – for some of us, it was our first time attending. We met many Teachmate members and some were even kind enough to record

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Rabbits are cool. A guest blog by John Sibbald on the powers of our free AI Progression Framework

Rabbits are cool. A guest blog by John Sibbald on the powers of our free AI Progression Framework

Below is a guest blog post written by John Sibbald, a specialist leader in education whose expertise were invaluable in developing our free AI Progression Framework. Earlier this year I wrote an article on LinkedIn titled ā€˜Give the rabbits some shades!’ born out of my frustration regarding support for leaders and teachers in the wonderful,

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Bishop Gore School and Teachmate: Pioneering AI Integration in Education

Bishop Gore School and Teachmate: Pioneering AI Integration in Education

We’re delighted to partner with Bishop Gore School in Swansea to explore the transformative potential of AI in teaching and learning as part of their ā€˜School as a Learning Organisation’ initiative! This collaboration is already yielding exciting results, promising to reshape how their teachers approach planning, curriculum delivery, and creating engaging content. Under the guidance

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Our FREE AI Progression Framework has just launched šŸ§‘ā€šŸ«

Our FREE AI Progression Framework has just launched šŸ§‘ā€šŸ«

Want to self-assess where your school is at on its AI journey? šŸŽÆ Our Al Progression Framework is a FREE self-evaluation tool to support teachers and school leaders reflect on AI implementation within their organisations. In creating this framework, we’ve built strands to reflect the UK Government’s Regulatory Principles of Al in the UK, wording

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Teachmate is proud to support Leigh Academies Trust šŸŽ“

Teachmate is proud to support Leigh Academies Trust šŸŽ“

We’re thrilled to continue our partnership with Leigh Academies Trust (LAT), one of the largest Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) in the UK with over 30 nursery, primary, secondary and SEN schools. A Partnership for Impact šŸ¤ LAT is well-known for embracing technology to enhance student learning and support teachers. Our journey with LAT began with the

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Teachmate now has over 250,000 members!

Teachmate now has over 250,000 members!

Wow! We’re ecstatic to announce that Teachmate now has over a quarter of a million members! šŸŽ‰ We’d like to thank the Teachmate team and of course, all of our wonderful members – each and every one of you makes this possible! We can’t wait to see what the future holds as we help more

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