A New Section in Our Newsletter – Keeping You Informed About Our AI Journey
Welcome to AI @ Westlake, a new feature highlighting how we’re preparing students and staff to be future-ready in an AI-enhanced world.
Term 1
We focused on staff capability: launching our AI Policy, student and teacher guidelines, and introducing approved tools backed by risk assessments and privacy protocols.
In Term 2
We continued building teacher capability. Teachers started to use AI-assisted tools to streamline routine tasks like summarising meetings, drafting emails, and refining sentence structure in reports. These tools support spelling and character limits, but all personalised content is written by teachers. By streamlining these routine processes, teachers can focus more of their time on what matters most: high-quality teaching and building authentic, supportive relationships with their students.
We expanded our AI Literacy to include student AI literacy. Year 10–13 students began five interactive modules during form time, launched on AI Awareness Week. Completion so far by Year 10 to 13 students:
- Module 1: AI Explorers (What is AI?) – 42%
- Module 2: AI Detectives (How AI works) – 46%
- Module 3: AI Truth Seekers (Bias & misinformation) – 31%
- Module 4: AI Kaitiaki (Deepfakes & hallucinations) – 27%
- Module 5: AI Future Ready (Ethics & data privacy) – 26%
Term 3
Year 9 students attended their AI awareness assembly on Thursday 24 July, and will complete the same modules over the next five weeks in form class.
We ask all parents to support us by encouraging students to complete their modules and talk with them about what they’re learning. These lessons are essential to help students understand how to protect their privacy, recognise potential risks, and use AI ethically and responsibly in their learning and everyday lives.
Meanwhile, Google Gemini, our main AI platform, is now open to all students. It operates within Google Workspace, includes new age-appropriate guardrails, and is powered by LearnLM, an AI model designed fine-tuned for learning, built in collaboration with experts in education.
Here are the links to the AI Policy and Student Guidelines, as shared in your earlier communication:
- AI Policy: Westlake Girls High School AI Policy
- Student Guidelines: Student AI Guidelines
