Cut teaching planning time to minutes

Smiling Bard is your new superpower. It's the teaching platform built to save you time and help your students thrive. Create full schemes of work and detailed lesson plans, personalised for your students, instantly. No student data required.

Spend less time on admin and more time doing what matters most: teaching.

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Built with UK teachers, for UK classrooms

Aligned to the National CurriculumDesigned for inclusive learningNo student data, everMade in the UK

Everything you need to plan, personalise and teach with confidence

From your first lesson to a full scheme of work, Smiling Bard gives you the tools to create resources your way. Quickly when you need to, deeply when it matters.

Create lessons your way

Describe what you want to teach and get a structured, curriculum-aligned lesson in minutes. Edit anything, go deeper where it matters.

Personalise for every learner

Build SEND profiles, student sets and student profiles to create truly inclusive resources. Use templates or go fully custom.

Plan across the term

Build schemes of work with detailed lesson breakdowns. Worksheets, slides and assessments are on the way.

Lessons that match the way you teach

Describe what you want to teach and Will writes a structured, curriculum-aligned lesson in minutes. Every section is editable. When you want more detail, ask Will to go deeper on any part, with suggestions to guide you or a freeform prompt for exactly what you need.

Whether you are planning a quick cover lesson or building something you will refine across the year, the lesson adapts to you.

  • Full lesson plans from a single description
  • Edit any section, make it yours
  • Go deeper where it matters with one click
  • Aligned to the National Curriculum

Build schemes that carry your lessons forward

Create full schemes of work that give your teaching structure across a term or a topic. Each scheme generates detailed lesson plans you can use, adapt or rebuild, giving you a foundation to work from, not a script to follow.

More resources are on the way: worksheets, slide decks, homework and assessments, all built to sit alongside your lessons and schemes.

  • Scheme-level planning with detailed lesson breakdowns
  • Worksheets and slide decks coming soon
  • Every resource curriculum-aligned and editable
  • Homework and assessments on the roadmap
Pro

Create a truly inclusive classroom, without the paperwork

Build SEND profiles, student sets and student profiles that reflect how your class actually learns. Use our template library to get started or create completely custom profiles, whatever works for your school.

Apply them when you create a lesson and Will adapts every section with specific, thoughtful support. When profiles suggest different approaches, the reasoning is explained in plain English so you stay in control.

No student names. No personal data. Just the context Will needs to personalise properly.

  • SEND profiles from templates or built from scratch
  • Student sets and profiles for tailored resources
  • Conflicts explained, never hidden
  • Zero student data required - ever

Start free. Upgrade when you are ready.

Get two months free with yearly plans

Free

£0 forever

Get started with genuinely UK curriculum-aligned lesson planning. Free, no card required.

  • 3 lessons a week
  • 2 schemes of work a month
  • Full UK curriculum alignment
  • No student data required - ever

Pro

Most popular

£89.99 /year

Everything you need to plan and differentiate with confidence, built for UK classrooms.

  • Everything in Free
  • Unlimited lessons and schemes, fair use
  • SEND differentiation as standard
  • Exam board and qualification precision

Staffroom

£159.99 /year

Everything around the lesson too, worksheets, slide decks, homework, and quizzes, ready in minutes.

  • Everything in Pro
  • Worksheets built from your lessons
  • Slide decks
  • Homework tasks and pop quizzes

Institution

Custom annual only

Smiling Bard for your whole department or trust, with admin oversight built in.

  • Everything in Staffroom, org-wide
  • Admin dashboard and usage reporting
  • Pricing that scales with your organisation
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Questions, answered

An AI-powered teaching companion that helps you plan lessons, schemes, assessments and more, all aligned to the UK curriculum.

Yes. No card details. No free trial tricks. Just free. You can sign up and start creating right away.

Lesson plans, schemes of work, assessments, assignments, and revision resources.

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.

Yes! It's yours to use, adapt, or delete whenever you like.

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 any time.

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.

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.

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.

The free plan has no time limit, it's yours to keep. If you want unlimited lesson plans, all resource types, and unlimited custom sets and SEND profiles, you can upgrade to Pro at any time. Cancel anytime.

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.