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What’s on this month.
Upcoming Teachmate events and UK education-calendar dates worth planning for. Filter by category below.
Mental Health Awareness Week begins
Theme: community. Free assembly slides and tutor-time activities are available in the resource library.
Report-writing season survival guide
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A practical live session with sentence stems, a 30-minute demonstration and unscripted Q&A.
Lesson planning with AI: a 45-minute crash course
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From blank page to differentiated lesson, with a live demonstration led by an experienced teacher.
Teachmate Book Club
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A relaxed online discussion for teachers. Open to anyone who has read at least half of the monthly title.
Lesson planning with AI: a 45-minute crash course
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From blank page to differentiated lesson, with a live demonstration led by an experienced teacher.
AI for SEND · self-paced course window opens
A CPD-certified, self-paced course with practical strategies and a printable certificate.
Lesson planning with AI: a 45-minute crash course
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From blank page to differentiated lesson, with a live demonstration led by an experienced teacher.
For SLTs: rolling out AI across your school
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Case studies, change-management templates, parent communication scripts and practical rollout advice.
Teachmate Run Club · monthly 5km
Run wherever you live, log your time in the community group and meet other teachers taking part.
Differentiation toolkit live
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Create scaffolded, core and stretch versions of classroom resources in one practical session.
Refugee Week begins
Cross-curricular assembly, KS2 and KS3 lesson resources and teacher-facing materials.
MAT-wide rollout playbook
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Trust leaders share rollout timelines, hidden costs and what they would do differently.
Pride Month · final-fortnight resources
Identity-affirming form-time materials, curriculum resources and a primary-friendly reading list.
Tool launch: KS3 Drama Scheme of Work
Twelve curriculum-aware lessons with peer-assessment rubrics and a final performance task.
Flexible CPD for teachers and schools.
Self-paced, CPD-certified, printable PDF certificates aligned to the DfE 2016 Teachers’ CPD Standards. Built and edited by ex-teachers. 8,400+ teachers have already completed at least one course.
AI Fundamentals for Teachers
What generative AI actually is, what it is good and bad at in the classroom, how to prompt it like a teacher, how to use it responsibly with safeguarding in mind, and how to build a weekly workflow that saves time without cutting corners on quality. Five short video modules with reflection tasks; printable PDF certificate at the end.
Start the course →Responsible AI in the classroom
What to share with AI, what never to, what to tell parents, and how to spot AI hallucinations in pupil work. Includes a one-page safeguarding checklist your DSL will sign off in ten minutes.
Enrol →Prompting like a teacher
How to write prompts that produce classroom-ready output every time. Worked examples from KS2 English to A-level Biology, plus a downloadable prompt-stem library you can paste into any tool.
Enrol →AI for SEND
Built with SENDCos for SENDCos. Adapting tasks, reducing cognitive load, drafting IEPs and one-page profiles, and the ethics of using AI with pupils who have EHCPs. Practical, classroom-first.
Enrol →Just shipped.
New tools and meaningful upgrades from the last six weeks. Every launch is shaped by teacher feedback - if it isn’t here, it’s probably on the roadmap.
Behaviour Plan Generator
Personalised, repair-led behaviour plans for individual pupils, drafted in under two minutes from your notes. Includes restorative-conversation scaffolds and parent comms.
Read the launch post →Cover Lesson Wizard
Drop-in cover lessons ready in 30 seconds. Pick the year group, subject and duration; out comes a self-contained lesson a non-specialist can teach.
Read the launch post →Drama Scheme of Work · KS3
12 KS3 lessons, AQA-aligned, with peer-assessment rubrics and a final performance task. Free to use, share and adapt under our open-classroom licence.
Read the launch post →Improved Lesson Planner
The Lesson Planner now supports lesson sequencing across a half-term. Plan one lesson, get a coherent six-week scheme that builds on it.
See the tool →Looking after ourselves, too.
Time-saving software is not a wellbeing strategy. These initiatives are the other half of what we owe each other: a club, a chat, a structured nudge to stop doom-scrolling.
Teachmate Run Club
Monthly virtual 5km on the first Saturday of each month. Run wherever you live, log your time in the community group, post your selfie if you must. ~120 teachers join each month; we send a free t-shirt to first-time finishers.
Sign me up →Teachmate Book Club
Monthly book pick plus a Wednesday-evening Zoom chat. Education-adjacent titles only; we keep politics light and pedagogy deep. Currently reading: Becoming the Teacher You Wish You’d Had by Sarah Mullen. ~60 readers per session.
Join the chat →The Resilient Teacher
Free wellbeing resource pack: 12 strategies for the six-week-half-term cycle, written by teachers who have done several of them badly and one or two of them well. Printable, photocopier-friendly, no pseudoscience.
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