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What is Oak National Academy?

Find out more about our free curriculum plans, lesson planning and teaching resources and AI tools.

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✅Preparing for the revised national curriculum

We're updating our teaching resources and curriculum plans and sharing guidance to help schools prepare confidently and reduce workload ahead of the revised curriculum in September 2028, and the updated GCSEs beyond.

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  • free resources and helpful content.

Introduction

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.

Our teacher area 

Our curriculum plans

We have sequenced our units and lessons in interactive 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.

Explore our interactive curriculum plans to:

  • View the full sequence and lessons we have teaching resources for
  • See an explainer of each curriculum, so you can understand the thinking, structure and focus behind the plan to inspire your own approach
  • Download the plan, including a national curriculum alignment document explaining how our curriculum aligns to the national curriculum
  • See how our threads weave their way through our curriculum so you can see common themes running through key stages in the subject.
  • See the unit descriptions with a 'why this, why now' and 'prior knowledge requirements' to help you consider the sequence of your current planning.
  • Move easily from units to lessons to understand lesson outcomes, helping you connect curriculum intent with classroom delivery.

Go to our curricula page to find out about the principles that underpin our curricula.


Please take a look at our help article: A guide to our curriculum plans.

Our teaching resources

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.

  • free to use and always will be
  • national curriculum and exam board aligned
  • cover key stages 1-4 across all national curriculum subjects
  • fully sequenced and ready to adapt.

Please take a look at our help article: A guide on how to use Oak National Academy.

It’s up to you to decide how to use our curriculum plans and teaching resources, and indeed whether you choose to use them. 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.

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.

Our pupil area

You may want your class to use our pupil area for homework or revision, to support them if they are absent or for when there is disruption such as bad weather. Whatever the reason, we know that pupils’ needs are very different to the needs of a teacher so we’ve designed this part of our website just for them. 

Every national curriculum lesson from KS1 - 4 that is available in your teacher area is also available in our pupil area.

Pupils will be taken through a lesson by giving them an introduction in a lesson overview page, a downloadable worksheet, a prior knowledge starter quiz, a lesson video and an assessment exit quiz.

Results of the lesson can be shared with you afterwards.

See our help article: Using our pupil area.

Our AI tools

We made Aila, our AI lesson assistant, to give you the power to create lesson plans and resources tailored specifically for your pupils in minutes, saving you valuable time to focus on bringing the lesson to life and supporting pupils.

Use Aila to quickly adapt Oak lesson resources for your class and context or create something you need that is not included in the lesson planning and teaching resources we already have.

Read our help article: How to use Aila, our AI lesson assistant.