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50 AI prompts for primary teachers

Copy, paste, change the bits in brackets. Written for UK primary schools by a school governor — not a tech company.

What's in it

Fifty prompts that do the jobs that actually eat your evenings — not a list of AI tools, and not a lecture about the future of education.

  • Planning & resources — lesson plans that fit a real mixed-ability class, differentiating what you've already made, knowledge organisers, retrieval starters
  • Reports & assessment — report comments in your own voice, feedback that moves learning on, moderation reasoning, pupil progress prep
  • Parents & communication — the difficult email handled calmly, newsletters in two minutes, trip letters that answer questions first
  • Behaviour & SEND — support plan starting points, de-escalation scripts, practical adjustments you can make tomorrow
  • Admin — risk assessments, cover work, meeting notes into actions, governor-friendly summaries
  • Your own time back — planning your week honestly, saying no professionally, marking smarter

A taste of one:

“Write a 90-word end-of-year report comment for a Year 4 child. Strengths: [works hard, strong reader, kind to others]. Next steps: [needs to check written work, reluctant in maths]. Warm and professional tone, UK primary style, no American spellings. Do not invent anything I haven't told you.”

That last sentence is the one most people leave out — and it's the one that stops AI making things up about a child.

It also opens with five safe-use rules — including the one that matters most: never put a child's name or details into an AI tool. Since September 2026, KCSIE names generative AI directly, so this isn't just good practice any more.

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Who made this

Written by a governor, not a software company

I'm Neil — a governor at Worple Primary in Isleworth, where I lead on our approach to AI. I built these prompts for our own staff first. If they save you an hour this week, they've done their job.

If your school hasn't sorted its AI policy yet, that's the other thing I do — and I'm currently writing the full document set free for a small number of schools. Here's what changed in KCSIE 2026.