Our staff spent a professional-development day on this. Here's what we're teaching — and three things you can do at home.
Your child is growing up in a world where information is free and instant — and where a confident wrong answer, a fake photo, or an essay they didn't write is only a tap away. The skill that matters most now isn't finding information. It's wisdom: knowing what to trust, and what to do with it. That's a skill you help build at home more than anywhere else.
We're helping students build discernment as a real, practised skill — a simple method for checking any AI answer (we call it VERIFY), a shared "traffic-light" language for when AI is fine, when it needs permission, and when it's off-limits, and a commitment to protect the honest effort that actually builds a mind. We're not banning AI or fearing it. We're teaching students to be the kind of person who uses it well.
When your child reaches for an app, ask what they think first. The pause is where wisdom grows.
Next time AI gives an answer, verify one claim together. Model that confident ≠ correct.
Some effort is the point — the reading, the first draft, the hard maths. Let them wrestle before the tool helps.
There's a practical guide for raising kids who know who they are — before AI tells them. Ask the school, or get in touch.