Built for Teachers
Willow is the AI tool quietly transforming classrooms across the UK — building personalised activities the moment you finish pitching a lesson, and giving you insights that used to take weeks to uncover.
20%
Grade boost
35%
More engagement
UK-Aligned
British curriculum
What Willow Does
Willow sits at the intersection of everything that's genuinely hard: workload, differentiation, and knowing what pupils actually understand. Here's what that looks like in practice.
The moment a lesson ends, Willow is ready with intelligent, curriculum-aligned activities — like revision exercises or interactive roleplays — no planning time required. You tell Willow what you taught today, and it keeps pupils focused on exactly what they need to know.
Students interact with Willow through adaptive conversations that meet them at their level. It reinforces what the teacher introduced, asking better questions for each child — not a one-size-fits-all worksheet. Struggling? Willow rephrases. Flying ahead? It stretches them further.
Beyond a percentage score, Willow tells you which concepts each student has genuinely grasped — and which ones need revisiting before they slip further behind. Not just who got it right, but how they got there, and where the thinking actually went wrong.
Willow is designed to support learning, not shortcut it. Every interaction is built to prompt students to think — not to bypass thinking altogether. That means asking questions before giving answers, scaffolding at the right moment, and making sure pupils build understanding rather than just retrieve someone else's.
How It Works
Nothing changes in your classroom. Willow works with your existing lesson plans and curriculum — it doesn't ask you to rethink how you teach.
Activities, quizzes, and practice exercises are recommended automatically from what you covered. You review them in seconds, assign with one click, and move on.
Each pupil works through personalised conversations that adapt to their responses. Stuck on something? Willow rephrases it. Getting it right? It stretches them further.
Your dashboard shows not just who got what right, but how each student is actually thinking — gaps, strengths, and who needs a quiet word before Friday.
Live example · Year 8 Science · Water cycle
Why Willow Works
Willow surfaces misconceptions before they calcify. Rather than discovering a gap in Year 11 mocks, teachers see it forming in Year 9 — when there's still time to do something about it.
Homework that adapts to each student isn't just better pedagogy — it's homework students actually complete. Willow makes the task feel doable, not daunting.
Willow works best when it's a shared language across departments — giving leadership consistent data and giving teachers a common framework for talking about progress.
Spaced retrieval, interleaving, adaptive scaffolding — Willow applies what the research says actually works, without teachers having to think about it consciously. The pedagogy is baked in.
Video Testimonial
A short video from Lisa, a year 6 teacher at Willow Tree, sharing her experience using Willow in real classrooms.
Practical Examples
Two real scenarios showing what happens when Willow is in the room — from primary grammar to end-of-unit revision and GCSE exam prep. Click each one to see inside.
The scenario
Year 10 have just finished the photosynthesis unit. The teacher wants to set meaningful revision activities and check retention before the end-of-unit test — but writing differentiated revision tasks for 30 students takes more time than she has before Monday.
What Willow does
Generates a spaced-revision sequence — consolidation questions on day one, interleaved retrieval on day three, a harder extension task by the end of the week. Each student gets a version calibrated to their earlier performance, and the teacher receives a readiness summary before the test — with specific concepts to address in the last lesson.
In Their Own Words
Not marketing copy — honest words from people in classrooms just like yours.
“Willow's ability to provide multiple examples and individualized scenarios is a massive strength compared to tools like Senica, which requires looking back through materials.”
Secondary School Teacher
English Teacher, London
“The role-play function with a Viking character was highly engaging and provided students with historical knowledge that they typically lack in traditional hot seat activities.”
Primary School Teacher
Class Teacher, Year 5, London
“It was really good at giving them back effective scaffolds for how they could use it. It wasn't just giving them straight up things they could use. It was encouraging them to think a little bit more.”
Primary School Teacher
Class Teacher, Year 5, Kent
20%
Increase in student grades
35%
Increase in student engagement
UK-built
Aligned for the British curriculum
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