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Benefits
Why choose Smiling Bard?
Save Time
Lesson planning, marking, and resource creation takes minutes not hours. Get back to what matters most: inspiring your students.
Personalise Learning
Build student sets and SEND profiles for your classes, then tailor any lesson in one click. Smiling Bard adds differentiation notes and explains its reasoning. no pupil data stored.
Clarity and focus
Organise everything in one simple dashboard. No more digging through folders or emails and no more endless tabs.
Testimonials
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Features
What can you do with Smiling Bard?
Plan lessons
Build complete, ready-to-teach lessons in minutes. Will, our AI, helps you structure objectives, activities, and outcomes so every lesson is tailored to your students and aligned with the UK curriculum. You can even create from scratch.
Classroom Management
Manage your classroom with clarity and confidence. Keep lessons, activities, and communication in one secure hub. Create student sets and SEND profiles to enhance your lesson planning. No student info required.
Get Smiling Bard Free
Smiling Bard is free for every teacher this academic year
We believe every teacher deserves the tools to teach brilliantly. That’s why Smiling Bard is completely free* to use for the 2025/26 academic year. Here’s what you can do:
*Free access for the 2025/26 academic year is provided under Smiling Bard’s fair-usage policy. We may adjust or limit access and update our terms from time to time, but we’ll always keep users informed.
Engage. Empower. Elevate.
Our Promise
We’ll never send you irrelevant content. Getting started is 100% free — no subscriptions, no trials, no payment details required.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
🧠 What is Smiling Bard?
An AI-powered teaching companion that helps you plan lessons, schemes, assessments and more — all aligned to the UK curriculum.
🆓 Is it really free to get started?
Yes. No card details. No free trial tricks. Just free. You can sign up and start creating right away.
🔁 What can I create with it?
Lesson plans, schemes of work, assessments, assignments, and revision resources.
👥 Can I tailor content for different groups?
Yes. You can regenerate a lesson for different groups, such as SEND learners or higher-attaining students. Just select the group and Smiling Bard adapts the plan.
✍️ Do I own the content I create?
Yes! It’s yours to use, adapt, or delete whenever you like.
🔒 Is my data private?
Yes. Everything you create is private to your account. We never sell your data or share it with third parties. We do use anonymised content to improve Smiling Bard, but your identity and your students’ details are never attached to it. You can delete your data at anytime.
🎯 How do student sets work?
A student set is a saved description of a group of learners — their ability level, common characteristics, or anything else relevant to how you teach them. No individual pupil names or records are stored. Once you've created a set, you can tailor any lesson to it in one click. Smiling Bard adds differentiation notes directly alongside your lesson and explains why it made each adaptation. You can use our premade sets straight away, or create your own.
💜 Does Smiling Bard work for SEND students?
Absolutely — SEND support is built into the core of the product. Choose from premade SEND profiles by category and accommodation, or create a custom profile by describing the need and giving it a name. When you tailor a lesson to a SEND profile, Smiling Bard adds targeted differentiation notes alongside your lesson, explains its reasoning, and on Pro also flags likely teaching challenges and gives you a practical teacher tip.
🏫 Is it suitable for alternative provision or specialist settings?
Yes. Smiling Bard works well in any teaching context, including alternative provision, SEMH settings, and specialist education organisations. The SEND profiling and differentiation features are particularly valuable here — you can build profiles that reflect the specific needs of your learners and generate tailored lesson content instantly.
👥 Can I tailor content for different groups?
Yes. You can regenerate a lesson for different groups, such as SEND learners or higher-attaining students. Just select the group and Smiling Bard adapts the plan.
⬆️ What happens after the free plan?
The free plan has no time limit — it's yours to keep. If you want unlimited lesson plans, all resource types, unlimited custom sets and SEND profiles, you can upgrade to Pro at £8.99/month or £100/year. Cancel anytime.
🤖 Do I need to know anything about AI to use it?
Not at all. Smiling Bard is designed to feel like a teaching assistant, not a tech tool. If you can describe a lesson, you can use Smiling Bard — no technical knowledge required. But remember, when it comes to teaching, you are the expert.