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Design and technology helps pupils make sense of the world. Oak’s free, adaptable D&T curriculum, developed with Design and Technology Association experts, supports high-quality teaching from a strong, flexible starting point.

Help pupils become confident designers with Oak’s adaptable D&T curriculum

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Learn about Oak’s newly released, free, fully resourced national curriculum model, the latest ImpactEd evidence of its impact in schools, and how major MATs are adopting Oak to strengthen teaching, consistency and workload support.

A new chapter: Oak’s fully updated classroom curriculum is now live – free for every school and teacher

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Oak’s free, adaptable RE curriculum helps pupils explore diverse worldviews through authentic case studies, enquiry-led learning and critical thinking – building understanding while saving teachers valuable planning time.

Spark deeper thinking and bring diverse worldviews to life through RE  

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Help pupils become confident, creative communicators with Oak’s French, Spanish and German curriculum. Designed by experts, our adaptable resources build vocabulary, grammar and cultural understanding over time – supporting teachers to deliver engaging, inclusive language lessons from key stage 2-4.

Teach languages that connect people, cultures and ideas

Now that the plans to revise the national curriculum and update GCSEs have been announced, it’s natural to have questions. What’s changing? How does this impact my subject(s)? And, most importantly, how can I get ready for the changes?

Here are your top questions answered to help you prepare with confidence. 


National curriculum changes are coming. Here are your top questions answered.

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Citizenship is at the heart of helping young people understand their place in society and the power they hold to shape it. With Oak’s brand new citizenship curriculum and lesson resources, you can save hours of planning time each week. 

Teach active citizenship and inspire your pupils

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Oak’s free maths curriculum and lesson resources, developed with subject experts MEI, spans years 1–11 and is rooted in mastery principles. Fully sequenced and expertly designed, it supports teachers to balance conceptual understanding with exam readiness – saving hours of planning without compromising on quality or coherence.

A maths curriculum that connects every stage

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Great English teaching helps pupils find their voice - as readers, writers and speakers. That’s why our complete English curriculum for key stages 1 to 4 is designed to build confident communicators from the very start of school life through to GCSEs. 

How a school is transforming English teaching with Oak’s curriculum

Bennie Kara, a speaker, trainer and consultant on the curriculum, discusses the importance of creating diverse and inclusive curricula and her experience of working with Oak. 

Diversity in the Oak curriculum 

Careful task design is vital to the successful delivery of any maths curriculum. Here we share our approach.

Task design within our maths curriculum 

Find out about the considerations made when planning our new music curriculum to help you when creating yours. 

Musical conversations and curriculum considerations

Need to design a subject curriculum but not sure where to start? Our 7 easy steps curriculum design guide is the perfect free guide for any teacher.

How to design a subject curriculum in 7 easy steps

Does your curriculum need a refresh? Watch our short video on making changes using our resources and start planning using our free quick guide. 

How to refresh your curriculum using Oak resources

Want inspiration to help you design a unit of study? Our handy guide and quick six minute video tutorial take you through the steps we follow.

How to create a unit of study

Find out how our new primary geography curriculum will explore your local context. 

Teaching local geography in the primary phase 

How do we choose what to teach in English? It is the maddening, exciting, and challenging question that preoccupies anyone lucky enough to be tasked with making curriculum decisions in English. In this blog, we talk about the considerations made around our new primary and secondary curricula. 

Selecting texts to teach in English 

Find out how we've been shaping our NEW history curriculum, and some of the thinking behind curriculum challenges. 

How do we plan a history curriculum?

Find out how we are developing our brand new science curricula through a 'big questions' approach. 

Exploring ‘big ideas’ through ‘big questions’ in science

We share our approach to incorporating concepts like 'monarchy' into the curriculum in a coherent and sequenced way. 

How to plan lessons and your curriculum that teach pupils about monarchy

Find out how our new curriculum principles are shaping the future of Oak.

Our 6 principles guiding our approach to curriculum

Learn more about our approach to the EYFS framework and our lessons, and how they can be used to support your teaching. 


Our approach to EYFS

Guest blogger, Miriam Kendrick, discusses religion and worldviews and provides guidance for schools without a national curriculum.

Oak’s RE curriculum, for the nation without a curriculum

Our specialist curriculum lessons are now live. Learn more about the resources you can access. 

Our specialist curriculum

We explore primary school history and delve into what should be taught and how it should be delivered.

What should we teach in primary history, and how?

Read about the five reasons for selecting what knowledge to teach: one of the hardest decisions we make in education. 

How should we choose what we teach?

Read blogs from our in-house experts to find ideas to take away and try, from curriculum planning to lesson delivery. Plus, keep up to date with the latest news and insights from Oak.

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Help pupils become confident designers with Oak’s adaptable D&T curriculum

A new chapter: Oak’s fully updated classroom curriculum is now live – free for every school and teacher

Spark deeper thinking and bring diverse worldviews to life through RE

Teach languages that connect people, cultures and ideas