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Introducing our new SEND and adaptation tools!

Introducing our new SEND and adaptation tools!

We’re so grateful to our amazing community of teachers whose invaluable feedback helped us to develop these new ‘SEND and Adaptation’ tools. We also made some updates to our existing tools to make them even better. 1. Sensory Activities Generate ideas for sensory activities relating to a topic. Try it now. 2. Student Checklist Generator Create a checklist to support pupils

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Introducing our new Sensory Activities Tool

Introducing our new Sensory Activities Tool

We’ve been busy working hard behind the scenes to bring you a selection of brand new SEND and Adaptation Tools! If you’re subscribed to our emails, you’ll be hearing about them all very soon 😉 But for now, we wanted to share one of them with you all. 1. Sensory Activities 👋 This tool can

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Do schools need an AI policy?

Do schools need an AI policy?

The Department for Education has stated that ‘AI is here to stay’ and has recognised the positive impact it could have both on teacher workload and the ability to personalise resources to support pupils. Teachmate are proud to have participated in the DfE’s recent collaborative workshops exploring the potential benefits and risks of generative AI

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Get to know our Community Engagement Manager, Karen!

Get to know our Community Engagement Manager, Karen!

We recently welcomed Karen to the growing Teachmate team! If you’re part of our thriving community of teachers, you’ll likely have spotted her in the group. If you’re not a member, join us! Tell me a little about your career history and what you were doing before Teachmate… I’ve been a primary school teacher for the

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We’ve made some huge updates to our Report Writer tool!

We’ve made some huge updates to our Report Writer tool!

We’ve been promising some big updates to our Report Writer tool for 2024 and we’re excited to announce these are now live! 1. 🎤 Clone My Tone feature Provide a sample of your reports and our innovative AI will be able to learn how to write in your own unique style and tone of voice.

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Introducing our Operations Manager, Mel!

Introducing our Operations Manager, Mel!

This month we’re introducing Mel, our Operations Manager who joined the team a few months ago. If you’ve ever had any questions about your account or membership, it’s Mel you’ll have been speaking to! Tell us a little about your career history and what you were doing before Teachmate… My first job was at Nationwide

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Introducing our April Teacher Spotlight, Kate

Introducing our April Teacher Spotlight, Kate

Kate Woodhead Tulett is an art teacher at a prep school teaching years 5, 6, 7 and 8. She’s been teaching for 27 years and has been a Teachmate PRO member for over a year. What’s your favourite part about being a teacher? “My favourite part of teaching is seeing the creativity of the childs’

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Plan your Summer term in record time with our Linked Tools feature

Plan your Summer term in record time with our Linked Tools feature

Plan your Summer term in record time thanks to our Linked Tools feature! It helps our tools to work synergistically to save you even more time when it comes to lesson planning and resource generation Start with our Medium Term Topic Planner tool – Input the topic and year group and our AI will generate

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Happy Birthday to us! Teachmate turns 1! 🎉

Happy Birthday to us! Teachmate turns 1! 🎉

Happy birthday to us! Teachmate turns 1 today! 🎉 We’ve had an incredible first year and we have you, our fantastic members to thank. Thank you for supporting us and for making our first year so special. We can’t wait to see what our second year in business has in store for us! 🙌🏻

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