What is Oak National Academy?

Welcome to Oak National Academy. You might have met us during the pandemic when we provided thousands of online lessons to help teachers keep pupils learning at home during school closures. Since then, thousands of teachers continue to visit Oak each week to access and download the slide decks, worksheets and quizzes that make up those lessons, to use for their lesson planning.

We've now become an independent public body and are delighted to be able to continue to support you for years to come. We're here to support you to teach, and your pupils' to access a high-quality curriculum. We continue to provide free access to thousands of adaptable lesson planning and teaching resources and share inspiration, and best-practice advice on curriculum design.

Start your planning now by going to the Oak homepage.

Lesson planning and teaching resources

We’ve worked with subject associations, schools and other organisations, and a wide range of education experts to try and choose the most popular topics, meaning we can support as many schools as possible across a broad curriculum.

It’s up to you to decide how to, and indeed whether you choose to, use our curricula and teaching resources. They are, and will always be free for you to access, whenever you need them.

Download, edit and adapt our slide decks and worksheets for use in your classroom.
Use our quizzes to check prior knowledge before a lesson or check learning afterwards.
Use our videos and transcripts of experienced teachers delivering lessons to familiarise yourself with the content and plan ahead for delivering your own version.

Why not get started now with our lesson planning page? You can learn more about our resources and how to use them to support your lesson planning.

Oak's curricula

We have sequenced our units and lessons in curriculum plans so you can see a suggestion of how our resources can be delivered in sequence. This is only a suggestion though! We know that teachers know their school and pupils best so sequences can be adapted as needed.

We're updating and improving our resources

We've released new lesson planning and teaching resources for English, maths, history, and science from keys stages 1, 3, 3 & 4, and primary geography.

New label that shows which resources are new

Look our for the label 'New' and for slide decks, worksheets and quizzes that match the colours and logo on our new website. We've improved the design of our resources to be fresher, easier to find and use and to be more accessible.

For our other subjects, we’re releasing those resources on a rolling basis over this academic year, as soon as they’re ready. By autumn 2025, you’ll have access to every resource for all our curriculum plans. You can keep up to date by signing up for updates from us.

You can also explore our interactive curriculum plans to make it even easier to plan your lessons this year!

What we're working on next

We've announced our new curriculum partners for even more subjects and we've worked with them, our expert groups and hundreds of teachers to produce new curriculum plans for:

primary and secondary art & design
secondary citizenship
primary and secondary computing
primary and KS3 cooking and nutrition
primary and secondary design and technology
KS2 and secondary French
secondary German
primary music
primary and secondary physical education (PE)
primary and secondary religious education (RE)
KS2 and secondary Spanish

We’re releasing the new resources for these subjects on a rolling basis over this academic year, as soon as they’re ready. By autumn 2025, you’ll have access to everything we’re releasing.