The things families ask us

Your child is taught by an AI teacher. We say that plainly because you deserve to know it, and because a child should never be misled about who they are talking to.

But VEDI is not a machine with no people in it. With Full VEDI School, a human mentor meets your child one to one every week. A human subject teacher steps in whenever your child needs extra support with a lesson. Every group session — the morning circle, the projects, the building lab — is led by a person. And a human Director reviews and approves everything. The AI teacher teaches. People do the rest.

Then they do not simply move on. VEDI never gives a child a low pass and pushes them into the next topic on top of a gap. Work is either Mastery Demonstrated or Not Yet Proficient, and “not yet” means the lesson stays open and is taught again in a different way — first by the AI teacher and, if your child needs more support, by a human subject teacher. Our goal is for every learner to understand the material and be able to use it.

Most of the time it does not get that far, because the AI teacher checks what your child knows before it teaches. If the thing underneath is missing, it teaches that first and then returns to the lesson. Gaps get closed as they appear, rather than quietly building up for years.

Every day. The school day opens with a small-group social-emotional learning circle. In Impact Lab and Kindness Club, learners work in a group of four to six on a real project — investigating, designing, building, arguing it out and presenting it. Groups stay together for the length of a project, which is long enough to really trust each other. Then they are reshuffled, so across a year your child works with many different peers.

Every group session is led by a person, not by software, and learners join from all over the world. The sessions run inside the VEDI Global School platform — never on third-party sites — so children always meet in a safe space.

Learners can also talk to each other through the chat inside the platform, a safe place to stay in touch between sessions. And we encourage learners who live near each other to meet up and go on field trips together.

The academic subjects follow an international curriculum. Alongside them, your child has a home-language lesson five times a week— their mother tongue, taught properly, on that language’s own national curriculum. Not a token weekly class: it is more lessons than they get in mathematics.

This is possible because the AI teacher teaches the language lessons itself. An ordinary school offering mother-tongue teaching in forty languages would need forty teachers, and could never justify it for one child. Tell us your language when you enrol and we will confirm what we can offer.

Between 15½ and 20 hours of lessons a week, depending on your child’s grade — roughly three to four hours a day, finishing early in the afternoon.

That is less time than a classroom day, and it teaches more, because nobody spends the morning waiting for twenty-nine other children.

Only for the group sessions. Those are fixed, because a group meets at a set time.

The one-to-one lessons are your child’s own. The timetable we publish is a recommended rhythm, not a bell schedule — if your child thinks best at nine in the morning or four in the afternoon, that is when they should learn.

What is not flexible is showing up. Learners are expected to learn every school day. If a learner has not attended for more than 48 hours, the AI teacher lets the Director know, and together with you we find out what is getting in the way and how to overcome it. The same happens if a learner logs in but does not do the work — the AI teacher notices, and the Director and you are told.

Only a parent can tell the school that their child cannot attend. And every week you receive an email summarising your child’s work and their wins.

Less than you might expect — VEDI is built to take school off your plate. The AI teacher teaches through games and activities, so you’re never the teacher.

With younger children your part is small and practical: preparing materials for writing practice, helping them log in and learn their way around the platform, and checking their work before they send it to the AI teacher for review. As your child grows, they find their own way around the platform, and your part gets smaller still.

And there’s no homework. All the reading and practice happen during the school day, so when school ends, it ends — no evening worksheets at the kitchen table, and your child has their afternoons free.

It is the fairest question anyone asks us, and the honest answer is that attention is something we work on rather than assume.

Every lesson opens with a short thinking game — about thirty seconds — because a warmed-up mind starts better than a cold one. During the lesson, the AI teacher pauses two or three times and asks one quick question about what it just taught. It takes a single tap. A right answer earns a star; a wrong one costs nothing at all, and nothing is ever taken away.

Those stars build toward something your child chooses: a small choice each week, and a larger goal they pick for themselves at the start of term and can watch getting closer.

None of this is a treatment, and we would not claim it is. It is a school that noticed children have to want to pay attention, and built the day around that rather than around hoping.

You tell us the grade your child is in, and we place them there. We go by the grade, not by a birthday — children arrive at each year ready at their own pace, and that is fine with us.

Your child’s work is aligned to established international standards — Common Core, NGSS, the C3 framework, CSTA and ISTE, SHAPE, NCAS. These are the benchmarks international schools around the world are built on, which is what makes the work travel. We keep a full record of every standard your child has demonstrated, and we provide it in whatever form a receiving school needs.

VEDI is currently working towards accreditation with Cognia, a recognised international school accreditor.

It depends on which programme is right for your family. All our prices are published on our Programmes & Prices page, and there are no hidden costs.

Families who join in our founding year, 2026/27, also receive a founding-family discount.

Yes. Your child can try VEDI free for 14 days — about 10 school days — with real lessons, a real timetable and no payment taken. You sign up, and within a couple of days we create a plan made especially for your child.

The free trial does not include home-language lessons, the foreign language that begins in Grade 6, or the weekly one-to-one mentor. These start once you enrol.

If VEDI is not right for your child, you simply stop. Book a demo →

No. VEDI does not monitor children through their cameras — not during lessons, and not during assessments. Some online schools use exam proctoring software that watches a child’s face and eyes. We do not, and we will not.

We also never use a camera or microphone to guess how a child is feeling. And we do not label children — our notes record what a child did, never a verdict on what they are. These are the strictest rules in the world on the use of AI with children, and we hold ourselves to them everywhere we teach, not only where the law requires it.

Yes — and we’ve set it out in full in our Privacy Policy. In short: we collect only what teaching your child needs, we never sell it and never share it for advertising, and we keep it in secure, access-controlled systems, with any uploads in private storage.

We never watch your child through a camera or microphone, never try to guess how they are feeling, and never label them. We keep your child’s school records while they are enrolled and for a limited time afterwards; you can ask to see, correct or delete their data at any time.

Any questions about your child’s data go to contact@vedi.school.

The AI teacher gives your child as much time as they need. With no other children waiting, a lesson can slow right down, go back over something from last week, or approach it from a completely different direction — and it costs nobody anything. No child is held up, and no child is hurried. For a child who has spent years being the slowest one in the room, that alone can change everything.

Before your child starts, we sit down with you and build a plan together: what helps them, what does not, what a good day looks like and what to do on a bad one. We adjust it as we come to know them. You know your child better than any assessment does, and we begin from that.

Attention gets active help too, not just more time. Every lesson opens with a short focus game, and the quick checks during it are built so that a wrong answer never costs anything — because a child who is afraid of losing something stops trying.

We should be honest about the limits. VEDI is not a specialist school, and some children need in-person therapeutic or medical support that we cannot provide. Tell us about your child before you enrol and we will tell you plainly whether we are the right place for them.