AI skills course for school leavers

Most school leavers are about to figure this out the hard way.

A five-day live course that teaches school leavers to build with AI. No coding required. They arrive with a laptop and leave with a team of AI agents that researches, writes, and works on their behalf. They built it themselves. They keep it.

Summer 2026 — 15 places

Days · Mon–Fri

2hr

Each day, live

Max cohort

£799

Early bird

Day one

How AI actually works.

Set up their environment, interact with Claude, and understand what is really happening under the surface. Tokens, context windows, why models sometimes get things wrong. By the end of the day, they have run their first agent.

Day two

Thinking with AI.

Frame problems, structure reasoning, build a research workflow. How to get AI to show its working, check its own output, and iterate toward something genuinely good.

Day three

Building your AI team.

Define their first agent: give it a role, a set of instructions, a job. Then a second. Then a third. One researches. One writes. One reviews and challenges.

Day four

Choose your track.

Students pick the project that fits their future — entrepreneur or student track. A real startup toolkit or a personal research assistant tailored to their degree subject.

Day five

Ship something you're proud of.

Every student presents their AI team to the cohort. They leave with it, and with the shape of how to build the next one.

For parents

A coach. Not a textbook.

We are not a tutoring service. We run a working-week programme for bright, computer-literate young people who have never written a line of code — and who are about to walk into a world where building with AI is the difference.

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Live and human-led

Every session is delivered by a practitioner on a video call, not a pre-recorded course.

Small cohorts

Fifteen students maximum. Your child will be seen and spoken to, not processed.

No coding required

Students learn to direct AI, not to write Python. A laptop and a browser are the only tools.

Claude access included

Each student is issued an account for the duration of the programme. Billing handled by us.

No. The course assumes zero coding experience. Students write instructions in plain English. The goal is AI fluency, not software engineering.
Especially. AI is changing how research, writing, and analysis work in every field. A law student or medical student who can build AI agents for their workflow has a genuine advantage. The course is designed for exactly this student.
Students join a video call each day, like a small seminar. Maximum 15 per cohort. The instructor leads, students build on their own laptop. It is interactive, not a lecture.
Claude is an AI platform made by Anthropic, one of the leading AI research companies. It is the tool students use to build their agents. Claude is free to use — there is nothing to set up or pay for separately.
Students leave with working projects on their machine and all course materials. Claude is free to use — they have everything they need to keep building. What they build next is up to them.
No certificate. What they leave with is better: a working AI project on their laptop that they built themselves, can demonstrate to anyone, and can keep developing. That is a stronger proof of skill than any certificate.
Full refund, no questions asked.
Yes. Email hello@leaving.school and we will set up a two-payment schedule at no extra cost.
Free tutorials teach prompting, which is the equivalent of learning to type a Google search. This course teaches students to build AI agents, connect them into a working team, and use them for real tasks. The self-taught path takes months. This course compresses it into one week with a practitioner who has already done the work.

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Most school leavers are about to figure this out the hard way.

Students don't study AI theory. They build things.

A coach. Not a textbook.

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