AI for Key Stage 4
Most pupils spend Year 10 and Year 11 on their GCSE courses, and in a class of thirty a teacher rarely has time to find out exactly where each one is stuck. Teachers use Flint to give every pupil a tutor that works through the course with them. Sparky asks questions at the pupil's level, checks working they upload, and keeps asking until the pupil can explain the idea in their own words.
Teachers decide what Sparky draws on, how much help it gives, and what it must never do, such as hand over a finished answer. Then they read how each pupil got on.
Examples from Years 10 and 11
- A Year 10 maths pupil uploads a photo of their working on a trigonometry question, and Sparky points to the step where it went wrong.
- For a GCSE history British depth study such as Elizabethan England, pupils question one of Elizabeth I's privy councillors about the threats to her throne, using sources the teacher uploaded.
- In citizenship, pupils play a backbench MP at Prime Minister's Questions, to see how Parliament holds the government to account.
- English pupils interview Winston Smith from Nineteen Eighty-Four about life under the Party.
- Computing pupils are given buggy code to fix, with hints that stop short of the answer.
- An RE or philosophy class watches a short video on Aristotle's virtue ethics, then Sparky quizzes each pupil on it.
MathematicsMaths9th, 10thYear 10, Year 11
Trigonometry quiz review with images
Present students with an AI practice buddy who can check their work based on pictures they upload and help visualize the triangles.
English Language ArtsEnglish9th, 10thYear 10, Year 11
Therapy session with AI Winston from 1984
Let students talk to AI Winston about living under a totalitarian regime and his views on freedom and individuality.
Computer ScienceComputing9th, 10th, 11thYear 10, Year 11, Year 12
Interactive Java while loop debugging
Give students practice in identifying and fixing buggy Java code that is provided by an AI.
Ethics9th, 10th, 11thYear 10, Year 11, Year 12
Aristotle’s virtue theory CrashCourse exit quiz
Have AI quiz students on the contents of Hank Green’s “Aristotle & Virtue Theory” CrashCourse YouTube video.
English Language ArtsEnglish6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12thYear 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10, Year 11, Year 12, Year 13
Essay draft feedback from an AI editor
Have AI give students feedback on their initial drafts of an essay, based on their grade level and a provided rubric.
Social StudiesHumanities7th, 8th, 9th, 10thYear 8, Year 9, Year 10, Year 11
Cuban Missile Crisis simulation as JFK
Have students play the role of JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and simulate decision making while responding to updates from AI role-playing as advisors.
Planning Years 10 and 11
Flint's presets include the Key Stage 4 programmes of study for English, maths, science, languages, computing, citizenship and PE. A department adopts the ones it teaches in one click. Flint then builds activities against those objectives and records which ones each pupil's sessions covered. For an option subject without a preset, such as history, geography or business, upload your exam board's specification or your scheme of work and Sparky will work from that.
Some KS4 departments run a short check at the start of a topic and the same activity again at the end. Flint grades both, so you can see which pupils have moved on and which still need the topic before mocks.
Coursework, NEA and the summer exams
Sparky coaches pupils through their own work and doesn't write it for them. The JCQ's rules on AI use in assessments cover coursework and NEA, so agree with your exams officer which tasks pupils may use Flint for. Pupils can't delete their conversations, so a teacher can always see what help a pupil had. For revision before the exams, see exam prep. For Years 12 and 13, see sixth form.
Every message is checked for self-harm, violence, harassment and sexual content, and alerts go by email to the staff you choose, such as your DSL. UK schools use Flint's UK service at uk.flintk12.com, with pupil data stored in London and AI processing in the EU.
