The AI planning tools helped us move to our own curriculum vision in ways I didn\u2019t expect. Many of our staff had never used AI at all, but because it\u2019s integrated directly into the planning function, the barrier was low. Staff have been able to create an entire term\u2019s unit of work in minutes, something that usually would have taken days, if not weeks.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Teachers also used the AI assistant to generate cross-curricular links directly within a unit plan. So an English unit on Twisted Fairytales could surface connections to History, Art and Design, and Drama that teachers wouldn\u2019t have spotted on their own.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n We rolled out Toddle carefully – in small groups of staff, each with someone confident about the platform who then became natural advocates. Surprisingly, some of the most vocal support came from our more established colleagues who aren\u2019t necessarily confident with tech, but who were now able to see really new and engaging ideas coming through their planning. The partnership with our school\u2019s Toddle buddy, Charmi, was a key part of this, both in being able to confidently train our staff and to ensure the platform worked the way we needed it to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prep school reports are not simple. Each one involves every subject teacher, form teachers, the boarding house, and our learning support department. On Toddle, we\u2019ve structured these exactly how we want them \u2013 our branding, our layout, our colours. The learning support department can see what every other teacher has written. When the report is done, we click a button and it\u2019s sent. The administration that used to eat into weeks is simply gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For our sixty boarders\u2019 parents, families in China, Japan, America, this transparency matters enormously. They can\u2019t pop into school on a Thursday afternoon. Now on the first day of each term, we can easily share curriculum unit plans with all parents, so they have visibility around what their child will be learning. <\/strong>This has proved really helpful in supporting our SEN pupils, who benefit from pre-learning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n One small change captures the difference well. Our highest academic achievement award, a gold award, used to rely on the child remembering they\u2019d received one and showing it to their form teacher. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, the member of staff who awards it takes a photo, shares it on Toddle, and parents see it instantly.<\/strong> It\u2019s consistent, it\u2019s immediate, and children are proud. They deserve to have that moment shared properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We had our ISI inspection recently. Our previous inspection in 2023 rated us \u2018excellent\u2019 in all areas, and this time we were equally prepared but got there a lot faster. With Toddle, we pulled up plans, printed evidence, and showed examples of student work, all from one place. No one spent days trying to find things.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n But the message isn\u2019t about inspections. Toddle has been a totally integral part of our curriculum development programme. I don\u2019t think our curriculum rewrite would have happened at the pace it did, or been as successful, without it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The most significant impact has been the time saved for teachers and the new opportunities for staff collaboration, which simply weren’t possible in the same way before.<\/strong> From a leadership perspective, we can now see planning provision broken down by subject, year group, course, class, or individual pupil, which helps inform our quality assurance when we do learning walks and book looks.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n If your prep school is asking the same questions we were – how to move beyond Common Entrance, how to bring scattered planning into one place, how to give parents actual visibility of their child\u2019s learning, then Toddle is worth serious consideration. And when you get started, ask about the Toddle Buddies. Ours was Charmi, and I\u2019m fairly certain she dreaded seeing our emails in the morning. But she could not have done more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You\u2019re probably already having the curriculum conversation. 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