Pedagogue AI

Pedagogue approaches AI in education from the angle of leadership rather than tooling. Its premise is that schools should set the agenda for how AI is used, not absorb whatever technology companies push into classrooms. The programme gives every adult in a school — teachers, support staff and office teams — a shared foundation in what AI can and cannot do, then gives senior leaders the strategy and the evidence to show what has actually improved.

The core offering is a twelve-month whole-school programme, led and designed by Dr Will Van Reyk, with a flagship course co-developed with St Paul's Girls' School and mapped to KCSiE 2026 and DfE guidance. Alongside the course sit a maintained resource library, termly updates and a planning rhythm: staff apply what they learn, leaders review the results and pick the next priority. A companion toolkit supports departments as they redesign assessment, rethink homework and coursework, and work through the curriculum area by area.

Practical use cases span the whole building. In classrooms, pupils learn to critique AI-generated accounts against other sources, write first and then compare their own voice to a generated version, or evaluate AI-suggested hypotheses in science and maths. In the office, admissions, marketing and operations, the same skills turn rough notes into correspondence, long documents into summaries and tenders into readable comparisons, with people keeping the judgement that matters.