Independant Leaning
self-led courses
Our flagship program, Critical Minds: AI, is available as a 6-week self-led online course for students to participate from home.
Open to learners aged 11–18.
Cohorts available:
20th April, 2026
7th September, 2026
6-week course for KS3 & KS4
Our flagship program, Critical Minds: AI, is a 6-week self-led online course designed to help students aged 11–18 explore the impact of artificial intelligence on their future.
It teaches them to question deeply, think ethically, and use creativity to help make sense of the post-AI world.
The programme its curated around the reading of the upcoming YA Novel, The Dawn of AI.
Their final project—a speech or a poem—can then be submitted to the Future Voices Competition, giving young people the opportunity to share their ideas with a national audience and influence real conversations about the future.
It started with a story...
The year is 2035 and New Oxford is a fully automated city powered its five districts: the Wind District, the Solar District, the Tidal District, the Fusion District, the Geothermal District.
This coming-of-age story follows non-verbal AuDHD teen, Ada Ikenna, and her support drone, ACE. She uses haptic gloves with sign-to-speech technology to communicate, with Ace as her voice.
Ada’s mother, Dr. Ikenna, invented the world’s first AGI, Adanna 6, and died in a tragic accident shortly thereafter – her technology dying with her as part of a failsafe.
On Ada’s 16th birthday, the technology reawakens and Ada accidentally unleashes it onto the fully automated city of New Oxford.
Ada and her brother, Ayden, must decide:
Will AI save humanity, or end it?
Bespoke Curriculums
choose from our three critical Minds: AI courses
To meet the needs of different learners, Critical Minds: AI is offered in three versions: A SEND/SEL course for accessible, emotionally supportive learning; a Combined SEND–English course for inclusive literacy development; and an Advanced English course for deeper critical and creative work, with an optional SEND Pre-Learning Add-On to support students who need it.
Send-SEL
A supportive, emotionally attuned version of the program designed to help neurodivergent and sensitive learners explore Neurodivergence & AI with confidence, safety, and curiosity.
- SEL Learning Objectives
- Vagus Nerve Exercises
- Vocabulary Development
- The Dawn of AI
- AI Literacy Objective
- Hands-On Activities
- Future Voices: Final Project
COMBINED SEL-ENglish
A fully inclusive pathway that strengthens English skills while introducing AI literacy through accessible, ability-based instruction.
- SEL Learning Objectives
- Vagus Nerve Exercises
- Vocabulary Development
- The Dawn of AI
- AI Literacy Objective
- English Learning Objective
- Hands-On Activities
- Future Voices: Final Project
advanced english
Optional: SEND Pre-Learning
A high-challenge version for students ready to analyse AI more deeply through literature, ethics, debate, and advanced communication—with an optional SEND Pre-Learning Add-On for extra support.
- Vocabulary Development
- The Dawn of AI
- AI Literacy Objective
- English Learning Objective
- Hands-On Activities
- Future Voices: Final Project
