St Leonards School

AI Literacy Course

What AI actually is, how to think with it, and what it means for the decade you are growing up into

Nineteen sessions across four seasons. Each one pairs a lesson you can read here with a Gem — a St Leonards AI assistant built for that session alone. The pages are open to anyone; the Gems open for pupils signed in with their school account.

Seasons One The Foundations How AI really works, where it falls short, and how to use it well. Two Prompt Engineering The way you ask is the answer you get — six patterns, one at a time. Three Context Engineering Stop writing better questions. Start building what the AI already knows. Four Harkness Dialogues Sit round one table, argue from evidence, and change your mind in public. Stubs Lesson stubs Two shorter sessions, kept and labelled rather than padded out.