A whole-school AI position in a term
We facilitate the SLT conversation, draft the policy in your voice, train your DSL and DPO on the data implications, and brief governors. Not a deck. A position your community can hold to.
For schools
Schools are the front line of an AI conversation parents aren't ready for.
Heads, teachers and pastoral teams in Harpenden are fielding questions about AI - from sixth-formers, from parents, from governors - faster than the curriculum is changing. We work with school communities to turn that pressure into a coherent, grown-up AI position - and to give pupils the practical fluency they will leave you with.
Why this matters in Harpenden
Your community sits in front of the AI conversation, whether you asked to or not.
- Pupils are already using generative AI for coursework, revision and identity exploration - the question is whether their school is shaping how, or watching it happen.
- Parents are looking to schools for a credible position. Most schools don't have one yet because no one has had time to write one.
- Teachers' workload is the single highest-leverage place AI can give time back - lesson planning, differentiation, marking, parent comms - if the policy frame is right.
- School leadership teams in Harpenden who get ahead of this become the trusted voice the town turns to. The ones that wait become the ones quoted in the local paper when something goes wrong.
What we'd build with you
Three concrete shapes the offer takes for for schools.
Practical fluency for teachers
Subject-specific workshops that show teachers how AI saves them time without compromising the craft. Marking, differentiation, planning, parent comms. Honest about what AI does badly.
Sixth-form AI builders
Partner with Sherpas AI to give your sixth-formers a summer cohort that ships real AI tools for real local organisations. The opposite of theory. The thing they put on a personal statement.
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