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Welcome and introduction
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The Big AI Project: Challenges, risks and solutions

• What are the biggest risks AI presents for schools?
• Lessons learned so far from the Big AI Project, which equips schools with the skills they need to approach an AI-infused world safely, ethically and strategically
• Signposting to free resources and AI support

Speaker
The Big AI Project Lead
Big Education
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Partner presentation - STEM Club UK


STEM Club UK helps schools deliver future-ready learning through safe, structured and engaging STEMAC programmes—covering Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths, AI and Coding. Trusted by 75+ schools, our hands-on clubs build pupil confidence, creativity, problem-solving, STEM learning and AI literacy. Our AI education pathway supports schools at every stage, from policy-safe AI literacy without pupil access to AI platforms, through to supervised practical learning when schools are ready. Through our direct delivery and license model, we provide curriculum, resources, unlimited teacher training and implementation support, helping schools make high-quality STEM and AI learning accessible, sustainable and easy to run.

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Lessons Learned: Building a sustainable whole-school strategy for AI

• How to develop a sustainable AI strategy
• Lessons learned from an early adopter
• Risks and opportunities of AI in schools

Speaker
Anthony David, Executive headteacher, St Mary’s, St Paul’s and Monken Hadley CE Primary Schools in north London
;author of AI with Education
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Using AI to make assessment accessible

• How to use AI to adapt formative classroom assessments such as multiple choice quizzes, think-pair-share, debates, and exit tickets
• How to use AI to adapt summative assessments such as exams, essays, onscreen tests, presentations, and practicals
• Ensuring AI is used accurately without lowering the bar

Speaker
Education Author and Advisor
BEE, Yorkshire
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Build versus buy: A teacher's case study in scaling AI coaching

• Why the build-versus-buy decision is rarely binary – and a third option many overlook
• Practical considerations: Data protection, safeguarding, staff/union engagement, integration with existing CPD
• An honest view on costs, risks, and trade-offs

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Assistant Headteacher for Teaching, Learning and Coaching, St Augustine's Catholic College, Wiltshire;
Co-Founder and Director, STAR21 Limited
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Teaching AI: What students want to know

• What do students want to be taught about AI?
• Age-appropriate assemblies and lessons
• Showing students which AI tools might be relevant to them

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AI Lead and Head of Modern Foreign Languages
King Ecgbert School, Mercia Learning Trust, Sheffield
Close of Day 1
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Welcome and introduction
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How to build a comprehensive AI curriculum

• Building an AI curriculum from key stage 1 to 5
• Curriculum sequencing advice and examples
• Lessons learned from the Three Spires Trust

Speakers
Director of School Improvement
Three Spires Trust & Practitioner for AI in Education
Digital Lead
Three Spires Trust, Staffordshire
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Partner session
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Supporting students' emotional intelligence in a world of AI

• Helping students to use AI in a safe and developmentally appropriate way
• Helping students to avoid becoming over-reliant on AI
• How emotional intelligence sits alongside AI in our curriculum

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Behaviour, Inclusion and Emotional Regulation Coach, Consultant and Trainer
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The procurement challenge: How do you choose a good AI tool?

• How to use Department for Education AI and digital standards to help cut through the sales spin in a crowded marketplace
• Producing a robust AI procurement strategy that asks sharper questions about impact, data and compliance
• Leave with a practical checklist to support safe, evidence‑informed AI choices

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Founder
Sapio Education
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Creating a culture of AI literacy in your school

• Creating an AI culture that moves from seeing it as a shortcut to seeing it as a tool for higher thinking
• What effective CPD for AI in education looks like
• How to bring families into the AI conversation

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Founder of Handi.Education
;Former AI and Digital Learning Lead; Author of You, AI and Your Teaching
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