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Example AI Prompts

Link: Using AI in Adobe Express

Q. Why use Hwb AI tools?

A. Enterprise Data Protection

Schools now have access to Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini through their Hwb Cymru accounts, which come with Enterprise Data Protection (EDP) (EDP guidance for Microsoft Copilot & Google Gemini)

What this means:

What EDP does:

Encrypts sensitive data (like names, addresses, or assessment data).
Restricts sharing of protected data outside your organisation (e.g., prevents copying to personal email or USB).
Monitors and audits data access and sharing.
Applies policies to ensure compliance with data protection laws (like GDPR in the UK).

What EDP does not do:

It does not automatically share or expose data outside your domain.
It does not override your organisation’s data protection policies or legal obligations.

Which AI app should you use?

Pupils and Staff use

Adobe Express

A great introduction for learners to understand the importance of their literacy skills. Create font styles and images through a prompt. And use Animate a Character to see how AI can match a voice to the actions and mouth movements of a character.

This may be their first experience of seeing how AI can manipulate an image to say what is added. This could get them to question the validity of videos they now see online.

Staff use only

Both Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini have very similar features, and will both complete tasks in a similar manner. The choice of which to use will be your personal choice.

When using these applications, the AI will use information it has gathered from the internet or that has been added to the training model. You must remember that due to this, the responses you get from your prompt may be influenced by Bias or create hallucinations (make mistakes).

Google's NotebookLM

NotebookLM works in a closed system, where the AI within it will only use the sources of information which have been added to it. Several documents can be provided, and the Chat within NotebookLM can allow you to question the information to gain insight into those documents.

The information added can also be generated into different formats, which may be easier to understand.staff

Copilot/Gemini Chat

Write a prompt to support the AI in creating what you ask for.
Use Chat for one-off tasks
The more context provided in your prompt, the better the output from your AI
Use AI as the first draft, always check the results from your AI
Use the chat as a conversation, and improve the results through your interactions
Create images which retain their context for storyboards

Microsoft Agent or Google Gem

Use when prompts are going to be reused
Add as much context to your Agent/Gem as possible
Provide links to support as a reference for your Agent/Gem
Share your Agent/Gem with others who can make use of your prompt

NotebookLM

Use when wanting to understand documents with accuracy
When you want to research a specific area and have supporting evidence, you want to understand better
You digest information better in a format other than written

Planning time savers, which should you use?

Example Prompt:

Provide me with 10 examples of how a Year 5 teacher in Wales could use Google Gemini/Copilot to support their pedagogy. What prompts could I use to speed up my lesson planning, resource creation, and feedback? I am teaching 30 pupils about the Tudor period, but I want to bring in other areas of the Welsh curriculum to cover the AOLEs

Google Gemini Results

H&SS / Lesson Planning

Cross-Curricular Mapping: Identify links between the Tudor topic and specific AOLEs to ensure coverage.

"I am a Year 5 teacher in Wales planning a unit on the Tudor period for 30 pupils. Generate a table showing specific connections between the Tudors and the following AOLEs: Health and Wellbeing, Expressive Arts, and Science and Technology. Suggest one lesson idea for each connection."

Health and Wellbeing

Empathy/Perspective Writing: Create resources for students to explore Tudor life through a contemporary lens.

"Generate five diary entry prompts for a Year 5 pupil role-playing a person living in Tudor Wales, focusing on their daily diet, hygiene, and local community life. Ensure the language is suitable for a 9-10 year old."

Expressive Arts

Resource Creation (Drama/Music): Quickly draft a script or simple song lyrics for a class performance.

"Draft a short, three-scene play script (5 minutes long) for 30 Year 5 pupils about Henry VIII and the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Wales. The script must include roles for 30 pupils and a short, simple song/chant that covers the core message."

Science and Technology

Problem-Based Learning: Create a scenario for students to solve a Tudor-era technological challenge.

"Design a 'Tudor Technology Challenge' for Year 5 pupils. The challenge is to design a Tudor ship that can withstand a sea voyage to the New World. Provide the challenge brief, key learning points about Tudor ship technology, and a simple success criteria."

Languages, Literacy & Comm.

Differentiated Text: Adjust complex historical documents to different reading levels.

"Take this excerpt about the Tudor Poor Laws [Paste text here]. Rewrite it into three differentiated versions: Simplified (for lower readers), Standard (Year 5 level), and Extended (with extra vocabulary and challenge questions)."

AOLE Integration

Enquiry Questions: Generate a set of deep, open-ended questions that bridge AOLEs.

"Provide three rich, cross-curricular enquiry questions for a Year 5 Tudor unit that integrate Humanities, Science, and Expressive Arts. The questions should encourage historical thinking and Welsh context."

Lesson Planning

Starter Activity Brainstorm: Generate engaging 'hooks' for your lessons.

"Give me ten different 5-minute 'hook' activities to start a lesson on Elizabeth I that cater to different learning styles (visual, kinesthetic, auditory)."

Feedback Efficiency

Report Card Comments: Draft personalised comments based on pupil performance data.

"I have 30 pupils. Draft six distinct, positive but honest report card comments about a Year 5 pupil's effort and progress in Humanities, using the Curriculum for Wales Progression Steps language. Focus on their use of evidence and chronological understanding."

Resource Creation (Design & Tech)

Assessment Rubric: Generate a clear marking guide for a practical project.

"Generate a rubric for assessing a Year 5 Design & Technology project where pupils design and build a model of a Tudor house. The rubric must use a scale of 1-4 (Emerging to Excellent) and clearly cover the AOLEs for Design & Technology."

Mathematics & Numeracy

Real-World Numeracy: Create a Maths activity rooted in the Tudor context.

"Create a Numeracy Task for Year 5: The class are Tudor merchants selling goods at a local Welsh market. Provide a list of 10 items with costs in Tudor currency (pounds, shillings, pence) and five multi-step problems involving calculating profit and loss."

Microsoft Copilot

🔧 1. Cross-Curricular Planning Support

Prompt:
“Create a cross-curricular unit plan for Year 5 on the Tudors that integrates all six AOLEs from the Welsh curriculum.”

🧠 2. Knowledge Organisers & Vocabulary Mats

Prompt:
“Generate a Tudor-themed knowledge organiser for Year 5 pupils, including key dates, people, vocabulary, and curriculum links to Humanities and Language, Literacy and Communication.”

🗂️ 3. Differentiated Resources

Prompt:
“Create three differentiated reading comprehension texts about Henry VIII for Year 5 pupils (higher, middle, lower ability), with questions aligned to the Welsh literacy framework.”

🎨 4. Creative Arts Integration

Prompt:
“Suggest an Expressive Arts lesson where pupils create Tudor portraits using mixed media, linked to historical context and self-expression.”

🧪 5. STEM Links (Science & Technology)

Prompt:
“Design a science investigation inspired by Tudor medicine or shipbuilding that links to the Science and Technology AOLE.”

💬 6. Welsh Language Integration

Prompt:
“Translate a simple Tudor-themed vocabulary list into Welsh for Year 5 learners, including pronunciation tips.”

📊 7. Assessment & Feedback Tools

Prompt:
“Create a formative assessment rubric for a Year 5 project on Tudor monarchs, with success criteria linked to the Humanities AOLE.”

🧩 8. Digital Competence Framework (DCF) Tasks

Prompt:
“Suggest a DCF-aligned task where pupils create a digital timeline of the Tudor period using Google Slides or Canva.”

📚 9. Literacy Through History

Prompt:
“Write a model diary entry from the perspective of a child in a Tudor workhouse, suitable for Year 5, and include writing success criteria.”

🧭 10. Pupil-Led Inquiry Projects

Prompt:
“Help me design a pupil-led inquiry project where learners explore Tudor life through the lens of ‘What was it like to be a child in Tudor times?’ with links to Health and Well-being and Humanities.”

Get learners to check for mistakes in AI-generated work

Using Google Gemini in front of learners, demonstrate creating a piece of work on a topic they are working on.

In the Tools section of your prompt, select the Canvas

Then ask Gemini to create a resource; in this example, the prompt used was- 'Create an interactive timeline for the Tudor period. This is for year 5 pupils; it should include all significant events'

The resource created was...

Creating Interactive games

Using Google Gemini I used the Prompt:

Create me an interactive game where children match colours to the Welsh name for that colour, write the code for this game

Can you create the game to play on a different way?

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