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Fresh thinking for busy schools and teachers.

Practical classroom ideas, product updates and plain-English policy explainers from people who understand education.

Our CTO Ian joined ministers at a DfE hackathon to discuss the AI content store, and what it could mean for teacher workload and SEND.

Hannah McCreesh · Content & Community Manager7 Apr 2025

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Two SEND tools are free for a month to mark World Autism Awareness Day: evidence-based support strategies, and one page pupil profiles.

Hannah McCreesh · Content & Community Manager2 Apr 2025

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Trace spent ten years as a learning support assistant in an SEN department. She talks about what surprised her, and the tool she rates most.

Hannah McCreesh · Content & Community Manager21 Mar 2025

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Four video lessons from Mr P covering how the AI works, its limits, editing with the SET framework, and top tips. Under an hour, free to all.

Hannah McCreesh · Content & Community Manager12 Mar 2025

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Sophie is a Junior Software Engineer in her third year of Computer Science. She talks about being one of the few women in the lecture hall.

Hannah McCreesh · Content & Community Manager7 Mar 2025

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Seven ways to mark Dydd Gŵyl Dewi, from character interviews with Dewi Sant to jingles, plus Clic Cymreig free until the end of March.

Hannah McCreesh · Content & Community Manager19 Feb 2025

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Ben Garside of Raspberry Pi and Ben Davies of Barefoot joined our ambassadors to share free resources for teaching children about AI.

Hannah McCreesh · Content & Community Manager14 Feb 2025

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St Teresa of Calcutta Catholic Academy Trust is trialling Teachmate with 70 staff. The tools they reached for first, and what their CEO said.

Hannah McCreesh · Content & Community Manager12 Feb 2025

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The DfE’s generative AI product safety expectations run to seven strands. Here is how Teachmate meets each one, strand by strand.

Hannah McCreesh · Content & Community Manager5 Feb 2025

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