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What is Oak National Academy?

Find out more about our free lesson planning and teaching resources including slide decks, quizzes, worksheets, curriculum plans and AI tools.

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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.

Lesson planning and teaching resources

We’ve worked with subject associations, schools and other organisations, and a wide range of education experts to make all-new resources for use in the classroom. Our lesson planning and teaching resources are:

  • free to use and always will be
  • national curriculum and exam board aligned
  • cover key stages 1-4 across 20 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.

Oak's 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.

Use our interactive curriculum plans for even more help with your planning.

Here you can:

  • see an explainer of each curriculum, so you can understand the thinking, structure and focus behind the plan to inspire your own approach
  • view the full sequence and lessons we've released
  • see the unit descriptions with a 'why this, why now' to help you consider the sequence of your current planning
  • Download the plan to use offline to help with your planning.

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

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.


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