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Certificates for schools

Merit awards, attendance, house points, end of year. A whole-school certificate supply that costs nothing and needs no software install.

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The problem

A school needs hundreds of certificates a year, in bursts

Weekly merit assemblies, termly awards, sports day, and prize-giving — different staff, different classes, and no shared system to make them.

  • Every teacher does it differently

    One class gets a designed certificate, the next gets Comic Sans on a clip-art border. Parents at prize-giving see both.

  • IT restrictions block the usual tools

    Installing software or signing up for accounts on school machines often isn't possible, and safeguarding rules make staff wary of it anyway.

  • The volume is genuinely large

    Weekly merits across a two-form entry primary is hundreds of certificates a year, before prize-giving is even considered.

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The generator is right here. Pick a design, fill in the details, download the file.

Best on a screen at least 900px wide. Certificates render at print resolution and are yours to use commercially. Fair-use limit: 10 downloads an hour, 40 a day.

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What you get

What works at school scale

  • No accounts to create for staff

    Nothing to sign up for, nothing for a safeguarding lead to review, nothing for IT to approve.

  • One shared design across the school

    Agreeing on a design in September makes every certificate that year look like it came from the same place.

  • Age-appropriate range

    Playful layouts for Key Stage 1 and formal ones for sixth-form prize-giving, from one library.

  • Prints on standard school paper

    A4 sizing that prints cleanly on the office copier without scaling artefacts.

  • Works on locked-down machines

    Browser-only, so it runs wherever staff can reach the web.

  • Free, permanently

    No per-teacher licence and no annual renewal to defend in a budget round.

Templates

Designs that fit

A starting point. Every design in the library is available in the generator.

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Frequently asked questions

Questions

Is it free for schools, including academies and private schools?
Yes, for all of them, with no watermark and no account. There's no education-specific application because there's nothing to pay for.
How many can we make in a day?
The fair-use cap is 10 an hour and 40 a day per person. Weekly merit assemblies fit comfortably; whole-school prize-giving doesn't.
Do staff need to create accounts?
No. That's usually the deciding factor for schools — nothing to provision, review, or manage.
Can we add the school crest?
Not in the free tool. Logo upload requires a CertSeal account, which is the usual upgrade for schools wanting branded prize-giving certificates.
Can we prepare certificates for a whole year group?
Not in one run. Bulk generation from a spreadsheet handles a year group in a single go; the free tool is one at a time.

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Need more than one at a time?

Prize-giving for a whole year group in one evening is past what a form can do — that's a spreadsheet of names and a single bulk run.

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