Spark AI
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Spark the imagination with inclusive and alternative AI
In order to thrive and make positive change young people need AI literacy and a diverse set of AI skills. Spark AI offers just this, enabling teachers, pupils and students to develop essential AI technical abilities using fun and engaging educational AI tools:
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Develop AI literacy through collaborative hackathon events for staff and students with PartyRock
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Build interactive AI apps and develop vibe-coding applications with Playlab
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Understand how to apply machine learning techniques and model movement data with micro:bit CreateAI
AI won't take your job, it's sombody using AI that will take your job
Richard Baldwin, Economist
PartyRock AI
PartyRock is a free AI app-building playground developed by Amazon. Educators can put together a custom AI tool (a subject tutor, a dataset detective, a wildly enthusiastic creative writing coach) in the time it takes to make a coffee, then bring it straight into the classroom.
Several fun features allow you to enjoy bespoke AI chatbots, image generators and in browser data analysis.
Playlab AI
Playlab is a purpose-built platform for teachers to design their own safe, classroom-ready AI tools: instant writing feedback, a Socratic tutor, or a lesson-planning sidekick that actually knows your curriculum. It's built with equity and safety front and centre, so you can hand it to students knowing moderation methods and safeguards are in place.
The perfect tool for students to create their own bespoke AI apps; shaping prompts, testing outputs, and learning first-hand where the guardrails are (and why they're there).
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micro:bit createAI
Take AI and Machine Learning off the screen and into young people's hands, literally! Using the micro:bit's built-in sensors, students train their own AI models on real, physical data (their own movements, tilts, taps) and see the results instantly on a tiny wearable computer. It's a full, hands-on AI lesson that brings AI and coding to life while turning abstract ideas like bias, accuracy, and data collection into something students can literally shake, wave, and debug in real time.
Attend certificated, face-to-face AI training suitable for all primary and secondary teachers. Covering principles of AI and how to master a variety of educational AI tools. These events take place in London, Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
Join certificated, online bite-sized professional development opportunities on topics such as Playlab, AI in education and AI and physical computing. Build your confidence of using AI for impactful teaching and learning.
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Workshops (face-to-face)
Join certificated, online bite-sized professional development opportunities on topics such as Playlab, AI in education and AI and physical computing. Build your confidence of using AI for impactful teaching and learning.
Certification
Validate and celebrate your professional development with our certificated CPD, demonstrating your commitment, know and skill of utilising AI to support teaching and learning.
In Person Training
Full and half-day courses will be available at locations throughout the country.
Upcoming Dates:
21st
Jan
2027
Spark AI: Inclusive and alternative AI
📍 Newbury, Berkshire
TBC
2027
Spark AI: Inclusive and alternative AI
📍 Excel, London
Spark AI: Ignite your classroom with inclusive and alternative AI12 Nov 2026, 10:00 – 14:30Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, Campus, Chilton, Didcot OX11 0QX, UK
Upcoming online training
Upcoming Events
micro:bit AI: KS215 Sept 2026, 16:00 – 17:00Online
Playlab17 Sept 2026, 16:00 – 17:00Online
micro:bit AI: KS3/406 Oct 2026, 16:00 – 17:00Online
Party Rock08 Oct 2026, 16:00 – 17:00Online
Alternative AI03 Nov 2026, 16:00 – 17:00Online
Playlab09 Nov 2026, 16:00 – 17:00Online- Spark AI: Ignite your classroom with inclusive and alternative AI12 Nov 2026, 10:00 – 14:30Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, Campus, Chilton, Didcot OX11 0QX, UK
micro:bit AI: KS201 Dec 2026, 16:00 – 17:00Online
Unlock micro:bit AI07 Dec 2026, 16:00 – 17:00Online
Book a workshop
We are currently providing:
Free workshops in:
Thame, Oxfordshire
Rochdale, Lancashire
Paid workshops (£350 half-day, £500 full-day) in and around:
London:
Camden, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith & Fulham, Islington, Kensington & Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth, Westminster
South East:
Reading, Oxford, Newbury, Abingdon, Wantage, Wallingford, Basingstoke, Slough, Winchester, Southampton, Portsmouth, Salisbury, Bournemouth
South West:
Okehampton, Exeter, Plymouth, Torquay, Cheltenham, Cirencester, Gloucester, Tewksbury
Midlands:
Birmingham, Telford, Stafford, Wolverhampton, Stoke, Dudley, Walsall, Banbury, Northampton, Coventry, Warwick, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, Coventry, Leicester, Worcester, Leamington Spa, Bedford
North West:
Manchester, Liverpool, Stockport, Rochdale, Oldham, Bury, Wigan, Tameside, Bolton, Salford, Warrington
North East:
Leeds
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