Danielle Perry said that while Keelan is using AI to create music, other pupils were using it to research and create presentations.
The pupils use an AI application called Microsoft Copilot in class.
“They’re using it for topic research, they’re using it to create colouring in pictures of designs that they have used,” Ms Perry said.
But she said that “really planning what we’re doing, giving the children specific goals” was vital.
How are children learning?
“The children, all are the architects of their own learning – they’re doing the learning first and then we’re supporting them,” Ms Perry said.
“Each of our children learn so differently and they’re all individuals.
“I think, like anything, when new ideas come out we always have to look at ‘is this suitable for the children that we teach?’
“And sometimes it’s not.
“We have to think ‘how can this best suit the children that we work with?'”
Ms Perry said that for the children “it’s not about computers taking over, it’s very much about giving the children their creative role in that”.
“For us in a special school, it’s still very human-led.”
For Sinéad Oakes, it is still “early days” for AI in the school.
“It’s something that we’ll try and progress with as the years go on for sure,” she said.