90-minute whole-staff session · online · autumn term 2026
Your staff already use AI. Since 1 September, the school is expected to have said what’s allowed — and to show it.
A 90-minute twilight for your whole staff that ends with a written position on AI you can publish, the lines your online-safety policy now needs, and a note for governors that the briefing happened.
- Length
- 90 minutes
- Format
- Online, live
- Attendance
- Whole staff
- Fee
- £495+VAT
The DfE’s free AI training tells staff what the tools are. It doesn’t decide what your school allows.
The DfE refreshed its AI training modules in May 2026 and told schools to run them before this year. Use them — they are good. But they end where the difficult part starts. Every school we speak to has a clear instinct on the questions below and nothing written down that a member of staff could actually follow on a Tuesday morning.
- 01Can staff put pupil work into ChatGPT to mark it?
- 02What do we tell parents when they ask whether we’re using AI?
- 03Who signs off a new AI tool before a department starts using it?
KCSIE 2026 now names generative AI as a safeguarding risk factor and puts AI-generated images inside the definition of harmful content. Someone in your school has to rule on the lines, and the ruling has to be written down. A free policy template does not close that gap, because the gap isn’t the document — it’s that nobody has been asked to make the decision.
Where this comes from
Over the summer we checked the published policy pages of 449 independent schools in England and 154 single-academy trusts, looking for one thing: a stated position on AI.
476 of the 603 had none. Not a weak one — none. These were schools with complete, well-maintained policy libraries covering safeguarding, behaviour and data protection. AI simply hadn’t been assigned to anyone.
Four months after KCSIE 2026 was published, that was still true of most of them. This session is the shortest route we’ve found from that position to a published one.
The 90 minutes
Delivered live to your whole staff. No pre-reading, no homework, no platform to log into beyond your usual video call.
- 01
What these tools actually do15 min
Plain mechanics, without evangelism or alarm. Where the output comes from, and why that determines what it is safe to use it for.
- 02
The safeguarding exposure KCSIE 2026 names25 min
Pupil data in free tools, AI-mediated disclosures, and the new ground: AI-generated images and deepfakes, which KCSIE 2026 now puts inside the definition of harmful content, and what a DSL and every member of staff must recognise and escalate. Mapped against KCSIE 2026 and your existing data protection duties rather than treated as a separate regime.
- 03
Deciding the lines30 min
The working part. We take your staff through the specific permitted and prohibited uses, live, and settle the ones your leadership team needs to rule on. This is where the position gets made.
- 04
Questions from the floor20 min
Consistently the most useful section. Staff ask what they have actually been doing, which is usually the first time the school hears it.
What you have afterwards
- A one-page staff AI position, drafted from the decisions your staff made in the room, ready to publish
- The permitted / prohibited use list your staff agreed to, in writing
- The three lines your online-safety and child-on-child policies now need on AI and AI-generated imagery
- A dated note for the governors’ safeguarding report: who attended, what was decided, what is left for leadership
- The recording, if you want it, for staff who could not attend
For the governing body
The board is the accountable party. Brief it before it asks.
60 minutes · online · governors and trustees · £350 +VAT, or £495 + travel in person
The board is the accountable party. KCSIE 2026 expects governors to be able to see that the online-safety policy covers AI, that staff have been told what the school permits, and that this year’s filtering and monitoring review has been done and recorded. The Academy Trust Handbook 2026 expects AI on the trust risk register. This briefing covers what to ask the head, what to expect to be shown, and what to minute. Free for schools that book the AI Clarity Audit.
Request a date
We run a limited number of these each half term and they are delivered personally, so this is an application rather than a checkout. We reply within one working day.
Questions we get asked
Is 90 minutes really enough?+–
Enough to make and publish the decisions, which is the deliverable. Not enough to evidence them across the school — the AI tool map, the supplier checks and the annual filtering review that KCSIE 2026 now expects are what the AI Clarity Audit does, and we will tell you in the session whether you need it. We are deliberately clear about the difference, because a school that buys a twilight expecting an audit will be disappointed by both.
Can you run it in person instead?+–
Yes — as a full INSET or training day at £995 plus travel. Most schools start with the online twilight because it can be scheduled in weeks rather than terms, and because it is the version that fits an ordinary after-school slot.
We already have an AI policy. Is this still useful?+–
Sometimes not, and we will tell you so. If you have a published position that your staff can actually apply, the honest next step is an audit of practice against it, not a session explaining it. Say so on the form and we will point you at the right thing.
Do you sell software or take vendor commission?+–
No. We do not resell the AI platforms we assess and we take no commission on any tool we might recommend. It is the reason the advice can be neutral about whether a school should adopt something at all.
How soon can you run it?+–
Typically within three weeks of confirming a date. We hold a small number of slots each half term.