How are schools using our lesson planning and teaching resources?

We've designed our lesson planning and teaching resources specifically for the classroom so they can be used flexibly to complement your existing curriculum, in whichever way suits you best.

Teachers have been sharing ways they’ve been supporting their pupils and staff with Oak’s resources.

• Curriculum planning
• Lesson planning
• AI tools
• Homework and revision
• Lesson cover
• Supporting absent pupils

Curriculum planning

Our fully sequenced curriculum plans for each national curriculum subject KS1-4, provide inspiration and a springboard for annual, termly and weekly planning for every teacher in your school.

Free to download for every subject and school phase, each plan provides a curriculum rationale, an outline of all topic units available and how many lessons are in each. To help you further, we’ve provided unit information on 'why this, why now'.

There is also a suggested sequenced order of lessons to support with your planning, as well as teaching resources for every lesson in the curriculum plans.

Lesson planning

We have thousands of free lesson planning and teaching resources which have been made to be easily adapted by you for use in your classroom.

Everything is designed by subject and curriculum experts as part of a sequenced curriculum, so you can clearly see how your lesson fits into the bigger picture. This helps you to save time planning your next topic, knowing you're building your pupils' knowledge step by step.

You can access these in a number of ways. From our homepage select your subject and school phase. Then use the buttons to filter by year group or thread (a common theme or topic that provides coherence as it weaves its way through the curriculum, and click into a unit to find more detail about that unit and the lessons within it.

You can also search by keyword or topic using the search box at the top right of the page.

See our help article: How do I use your teaching resources to plan and teach great lessons.

AI tools

Our AI tools are designed to help you create lesson resources efficiently, saving you valuable time to focus on bringing the lesson to life and supporting pupils. 

All our tools draw on our high-quality curriculum resources, which have been designed by expert teachers and are national curriculum aligned. 

• Use Aila, our AI lesson assistant to quickly adapt Oak lessons for your class and context or create something you need that you can’t find in our existing resources. Read our help article: How to use Aila, our AI lesson assistant for more help on getting started.
• Create teaching materials with AI to enhance your lessons further by helping you to create a range of teaching materials, including glossaries, comprehension tasks and quizzes. This can be accessed from Aila or look out for the 'Create more with AI' button at the top of a lesson page.

Homework and revision

Teacher workloads are stretched far enough without spending hours creating topical homework, revision booklets and after-school sessions from scratch. For building skills and knowledge outside of the classroom, explore and share our lessons with your classes. 

Share lesson with pupils

Want to share lesson activities such as quizzes and worksheets with your pupils? Click on the 'Share activities with pupils' button on a lesson page.

You can choose what you share, either the full set of activities (lesson video, worksheet and starter and exit quizzes) or individual activities, ensuring the learning is personalised and relevant.

Once you have decided what to share you can share via:

• 'Copy link' to share directly with colleagues or with your classes
• 'Google Classroom' or 'Microsoft Teams' to post lesson resources directly to your VLE

Lesson cover

Oak is the ace up your sleeve when it comes to setting cover. Our thousands of resources are there to take the pressure off, especially when there’s a requirement for a colleague or supply teacher to cover a subject or key stage that isn’t a specialism.

Supporting absent pupils 

There are many reasons a pupil may be absent from lessons or from school. Our ready-made resources mean you only have to plan your lessons once, no matter where your pupils are learning. Download resources for your in-class teaching, whilst sending the same lesson to any pupil at home via Google Classroom, Teams or any other platforms.

To help you quickly understand progress, pupils can share their quiz results with you including a breakdown of results.

Tracking work

To help assess pupils progress, your class can share their results back with you once they have completed a lesson. This means you can track pupils’ progress even if they’re completing it independently. 

How it works:

• Pupils complete a lesson in our pupil area. 
• The quizzes are automatically marked and pupils are shown a final score. 
• Pupils can then share results via a link or print them out.
• Teachers are able to see a breakdown of the pupil's answers by question, attempts made, the final score, whether they downloaded the worksheet and how much of the video they watched.

Seeing quiz results is a good starting point to show how pupils are progressing and to identify areas where they may need further support.