Skilly works with teachers, not over them.

You’ve been the SPHE teacher in your school for years. You know your pupils. You read the room. The reflective question you ask at the right moment isthe lesson. So when a vendor rolls in with “AI marking + AI insights”, the honest worry isn’t that you’ll be replaced. It’s simpler than that: will I look like a beginner on day one?

Skilly is built on a single rule: the teacher is the final word, always. Everything below is downstream of that.

You’re not getting an AI assistant. You’re getting an organised system that hands you your week back — so the SPHE teacher (coach) can do the work only humans can do.

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A teacher working one-to-one with a student at a laptop

The boundary

What Skilly does · what teachers do

Read it side-by-side. Nothing on the left replaces anything on the right.

Skilly does

The teacher does

Reads each pupil's reflection in seconds and proposes a level on the NCCA 5-point rubric.

Signs off, overrides where your professional judgement says different, adds the personal note that lands.

Scans every reflection for safeguarding signals (low mood, disclosure, peer pressure, self-harm risk) and raises a flag the moment it sees one.

Decides what to do about it — quiet word, parent contact, DLP referral. Skilly never decides; it surfaces.

Drafts an ADRA lesson when you've run out of time on a Sunday night.

Reads the room, adapts it on the fly, lives the lesson. The conversation in your room is yours.

Counts every reflection, every flag, every wellbeing pulse for DEIS / SSE / inspection evidence.

Reads what the pupil actually wrote. Knows the story behind the score.

Writes formative feedback for every reflection in the pupil's voice-appropriate tone (Junior Cycle warm, Senior Cycle formal, L1LP simple).

Edits, replaces, or releases the feedback — and decides whether pupils see it instantly or after you've reviewed first.

Tracks who's reflected, who's missed, who's drifted in mood for the third week running.

Has the conversation that turns the data back into a relationship.

Three promises

The lines Skilly will not cross

You sign off. You override. You have the last word.

Every AI-proposed level, every piece of feedback, every wellbeing flag passes through your hands before it counts. The teacher is the final arbiter on this platform — that's a structural rule, not a setting we hope you find.

The pastoral call is yours. Always.

When Skilly spots a safeguarding signal, it raises a flag to you and the coordinator. It does not contact a parent. It does not message the pupil. It does not auto-escalate. You decide.

You'll never look like a beginner in front of your class.

Today's Tasks tells you exactly what to do today. Accept-all clears routine reflections in one tap. The Help button (?) is one keystroke away mid-lesson. Skilly is built so the first time you use it, you look competent — not the new kid.

What you get back

The hours, the evidence, the blank page

~3 hrs

Marking time saved per week

Based on the routine sign-off path. You still read every reflection that needs your eyes.

0 spreadsheets

Evidence auto-compiled

DEIS theme tags, SSE evidence pack, WBI indicators — all generated from the work you and your pupils are already doing.

1 click

Student report — drafted

Strengths, growth areas, recommended actions. You edit before you send. The blank page is gone.

Honest answers

About the three concerns you’ve heard in the staffroom

“We don’t want to over-digitise the classroom.”

Agreed. SPHE is conversational by design — nobody wants 60-minute screens for a feelings lesson. So Skilly doesn’t digitise the lesson. It digitises the reflective journal that 80% of pupils stop filling in — the bit that’s already failing on paper. Roughly ten minutes of typing at the end. The rest stays you, them, and the conversation.

“I don’t trust the AI.”

Trust where it’s earned. Skilly never makes a consequential decision about a pupil. It proposes a level — you sign off. It flags a concern — you decide. It drafts feedback — you can hold it back for up to 72 hours while you read first, or override it altogether. The AI sits behind the teacher in this loop, not in front.

“We don’t have enough computers.”

You probably have more than you think. Skilly is built for shared computer rooms — one device per four pupils, rotate through. It also works on phones (mobile-responsive, no app to install). One Junior Cycle group of 24 can complete a Skilly session in 15 minutes on six shared devices. We’ve never seen a school that physically couldn’t run it.

Skilly is the marking. You are the teacher (coach).

Try the demo. Look at the Review Class Reflections screen. Click any reflection. Notice that every level Skilly proposed has your override pills sitting right next to it— built so you can disagree in one tap. That’s not a feature. That’s the posture.

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