Cut admin. Personalise learning.
Become the world's greatest teacher
Smiling Bard is your AI superpower — the teaching platform built to save you time and help your students thrive. Create full schemes of work, detailed lesson plans, interactive resources, and manage your classroom in minutes.
Spend less time on admin and more time doing what matters most: teaching.
Your Smart Teaching Assistant
What is Smiling Bard?
Take back the time that admin stole. Smiling Bard is the teaching assistant that helps you plan faster, prepare smarter, and give your students more of what matters: your time.
What is Smiling Bard?
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
Create differentiated profiles and content for every student, including those with SEND or EHCP plans, instantly.
Clarity and focus
Organise everything in one simple dashboard. No more digging through folders or emails and no more endless tabs.
Testimonials
Hear it from teachers
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.
Create teaching resources
Bring your ideas to life in seconds. Generate high-quality lesson plans, schemes of work, assessments, and assignments: all aligned with the UK curriculum and your teaching style. You can even create interactive lesson recaps and more!
Personalised Learning Tools
Smiling Bard helps you design content that fits every learner, from whole classes and sets to individual students. Give every pupil the right level of support and challenge — all within one simple, intuitive platform. Create or regenerate content for groups or individuals with ease.
Classroom Management
Manage your classroom with clarity and confidence. Keep lessons, activities, and communication in one secure hub. Create student profiles, Track attendance, share updates, and connect with parents and guardians without the paperwork.
Collaboration Made Easy (Coming Soon)
Share resources and updates with colleagues, parents,and students to create a consistent learning experience. Smiling Bard makes it simple to collaborate across classes or departments while keeping everything organised and accessible.
Student Progress Tracking
See each student’s progress, strengths, and goals in one clear view. Identify who needs support or stretch, set learning targets, and celebrate growth with meaningful, data-backed insights.
Fully aligned with UK educational standards
Curriculum-aligned
Built for the classroom, aligned to the curriculum
Smiling Bard is fully aligned with UK educational standards, ensuring that all content and learning pathways adhere to the curriculum requirements for Key Stages 1,2,3, 4, GCSEs and A-Levels.
Our platform is designed to meet the rigorous expectations of the national curriculum, providing students with accurate, relevant, and up-to-date materials that support their academic growth and prepare them for success in their exams.
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:
Create full lesson plans and schemes of work aligned with UK curriculum standards
Regenerate or adapt lessons for different students, sets, or ability levels
Upload, store, and organise your own teaching materials in one secure place
Generate assessments, assignments, and revision materials in minutes
Personalise learning experiences for pupils or student sets/groups
Track student progress and engagement with clear, easy-to-read insights
Create interactive lesson recaps to deepen understanding
*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.
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Smiling Bard grows with you
Immersive Learning
Go beyond revision and truly master your subjects
Imagine personalised revision plans, interactive role-plays with historical figures, and real exam practice all at your fingertips. Dive into writing and reading coaching, quick practice tests, and explore extracurricular topics such as critical thinking. Smiling Bard isn’t just for revision; it’s designed to help you master knowledge. Designed for GSCEs and A-Levels preparation.
Personalised Pathways
The future of education for everyone
Transform learning with personalised pathways that adapt to each student’s progress and needs. Our AI-driven system helps students excel at their own pace while reducing admin stress for teachers, allowing them to focus on teaching. Parents and guardians will enjoy clearer insights into their child’s progress, fostering better support at home.
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.
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