Lawford C of E Primary School: Essex
Lawford C of E Primary School: Essex
Lawford Church of England (Voluntary Aided) Primary School is a primary school in Lawford, Essex, England.
Why use AI?
Examples of use:
Enhancing Reading Comprehension
"The best tool that I use in the classroom is the reading comprehension. It has the ability to create good texts which are based on the year groups, but also then come up with those comprehension questions. ... It then does it in a matter of seconds, which has reduced my workload of planning and reading comprehension lessons by an awful lot, which has been fantastic."
Emily Woods - Class teacher
Ai and Inclusion: helping every children can engage
"Using TeachMate AI with other technology ensures that every child can engage with the content equally, regardless of their reading ability."
Nikcole Glasgow - HLTA Teaching Assistant
Efficient creation of Targetted support
"I used TeachMate AI's social story tool for a student with ADHD. During my planning time, I simply opened the tool, input her name, specific needs, and desired outcome, then clicked Generate to create a tailored story."
Lauren Aldridge. - Reception Class Teacher
The teacher workforce multiplier
"If I wanted a setting description, it gives lots of different model texts. As a teacher in the past, I could only, because my energy and because of time, write one model text, but because we've got AI, we can generate different versions as if we've had seven different teachers generate a model for the children to read through."
Maria Barnes - Class teacher
The supportive planning assistant
"So once we were on the website, we used a different tool to generate the plan for us... It generated the titles for all of the six lessons. Then you can go into even more depth with that so they can then generate the individual lesson plans, and you can get PowerPoints linked to the lesson as well. So it was really helpful and it gave us so much information just on one topic."
Lauren Aldridge. - Reception teacher
Impact of use:
Curriulcum aligned for relevent support
"But really, truly, what sets Teach Mate apart from other AI is the fact that you can put in your knowledge and skills, objectives that you want your children to learn about. And because it's so embedded in the UK national curriculum, it knows exactly what it is that children need to learn. It's second nature to this AI in particular.
Emily Woods - Class teacher
Advice
Transforming your ideas into a practial reality
"You need to be brave. I think it's scary to think that it's like you're getting someone else to do your planning for you, but you're not. You're still input in all of the information. So you're still involved in the whole process. You're still being creative and giving lots of ideas, and you just tell it your ideas, and it shows you simple ways to transform your ideas into different things. So even if you're not very technical, it's very easy to use the website."
Maria Barnes - Class teacher
AI's role in education
The creative support assistant
"What I like about AI is it supports a teacher facing any creative challenge."
Maria Barnes - Class teacher
TeachMateAI:
Instant Impact
"I absolutely love Teach Mate. It's a fantastic resource. I follow it on TikTok. And when I saw it come up on there, I literally said, Why haven't we got this in school? And then within a week, we were being taught how to use it in staff meetings. And I think it's absolutely brilliant."
Emily Woods - Class teacher