Secondary pupils painting in an art lesson

Oak’s new art and design curriculum offers diverse artist references across times and styles. It provides inspiring examples to spark pupil's creativity and support teachers with a broader range of artists, while respecting permissions.

Art and design at Oak: Our approach to imagery and references

A teacher showing a student on a computer how to do something

Technology shapes every aspect of life, and computing education must go beyond coding. Oak’s new curriculum, developed with the Raspberry Pi Foundation, offers free, adaptable lessons to help pupils think critically, act responsibly, and connect learning to the real world.



Teaching computing that matters

Pupils, wearing aprons over their uniforms, prepare vegetables while standing at a unit in a food technology classroom.

Food is more than fuel: it’s culture, creativity and community. Oak’s new cooking and nutrition curriculum, with free adaptable resources for key stages 1-3, helps pupils explore these connections and build essential life skills.


Transform food education for your pupils

Screenshot previews of new teaching resources from online safety units, including a printable exit quiz, worksheet, and lesson slides.

From toxic algorithms to online misogyny, young people are facing growing dangers online - and teachers are on the front line. Oak’s new online safety lesson resources are here to help you teach online safety in schools, with confidence and clarity.

Teaching online safety in schools: tackling real risks to help pupils stay safe

How are you using and adapting Oak’s free teaching resources in your classroom? Here’s an example of how one Academy used our computing resources as inspiration to set up a hackathon, allowing pupils to tackle real-world problems, sharpen their programming skills, and work creatively.

Bring your pupils’ computing skills to life by hosting your own hackathon

Wondering just how adaptable our resources are? Find out how a Trust Strategic Maths Lead is drawing on our curriculum and resources to design their own.

How an academy trust is building a maths curriculum using Oak

We've worked with the British Nutrition Foundation to create cooking and nutrition lessons for Years 7 to 9. In this blog, you can find out about our secondary cooking and nutrition curriculum and what you can expect to see within it. 

Using our cooking and nutrition resources in the secondary classroom

A pupil wearing an apron over their uniform, transferring pastry on to a plate

We're thrilled to be working with the British Nutrition Foundation to create food lessons for Years 1 to 6. Here you can find out more about the content of our primary cooking and nutrition curriculum as well as a handy checklist to help you prepare for your lessons.  

Using our cooking and nutrition resources in the primary classroom

Use our quick guide to see how our new primary maths curriculum supports the use of the NCETM Curriculum Prioritisation materials.


Supporting the use of NCETM Curriculum Prioritisation materials

Are you an EYFS,  key stage 1 or key stage 2 teacher thinking about how you approach the teaching of Remembrance Day this year? Here are some ideas to consider from our history subject lead, Benjie Groom.

Lesson planning ideas for teaching Remembrance Day

Find out how long it should be taking you to plan a lesson, along with tips from our experts!

How long does it take to plan a lesson?

Find out how to teach topics that might be challenging for you or your pupils - and what you can do to overcome this!

How to plan to teach difficult topics

How do you support your pupils with common misconceptions before they become embedded? Find out how to capture misconceptions and provide best-practice in the classroom.

How to address common misconceptions in lessons

Get confident with lesson objectives with our lesson objective examples.

Lesson objective examples

Find out how to create your own lesson plan template and how they can help your thinking process.

How to create your own lesson plan template

Find out how to create effective lesson objectives for your classes!

Creating your lesson objectives

Want to know the difference between 'learning objectives', 'lesson objectives' and 'lesson outcomes'? Find out more now. 

What are learning objectives?

Ready to start planning lessons? Follow our simple steps to get started today.

How to plan a lesson: simple steps

Find out how Oak can help you on your ITT and ECT training years!

We can help on your teacher training year

Get ready for teaching in September with our top tips for stepping into a new school or starting your teacher training!

Preparing to teach for September

Hear from teachers themselves about their hacks for speeding up and improving their lesson planning using Oak.

Rethink how you can use Oak this year

Find out how to adapt and scaffold any lesson to support your pupils.

10 ways to scaffold your lessons, according to our experts

Help pupils to understand the coronation and royal events with these easy-to-implement lesson ideas.

Using the coronation to teach about monarchy

Help your pupils to revise by reading our top tips!

6 tips and techniques to help pupils revise for GCSEs and other assessments

Find out how to motivate your pupils when starting a new topic.

Three ways to motivate pupils' learning and hook them into a new topic

Get inspiration for important calendar celebration days for your primary curriculum!

How to teach calendar-themed days in primary school

Find out how to revolutionise your feedback planning, without adding to your workload.

4 ways to provide effective feedback on assessments and mock exams

Four fun and educational activities to help you teach about different religious traditions this term. 

Four ways to teach about winter religious events in EYFS and KS1

New to key stage, year group content or subject? Find out how to improve your confidence quickly, using our thousands of free, adaptable resources. 

New to teaching a subject or topic? Build confidence with our 6 tips

Find out how to incorporate regular quizzing into your lessons to supercharge your pupils’ learning, without adding to your workload.

How to use quizzes for your pupils' retrieval practice

Find out how using our resources to support revision has been beneficial for both pupils and teachers

How using Oak for revision has personalised revision plans and reduced teacher's workload

Children's mental health week 2022 assemblies poster

We’re supporting Place2Be and BAFTA Kids to bring you a free assembly to mark Children's Mental Health Week.

Join the Children’s Mental Health Week assembly 2022

Rachel Watkins, Head of English at St Thomas á Becket secondary, shares the benefits they've realised from using Oak for lesson cover.

How using Oak for lesson cover has improved outcomes for pupils and teachers

Find out how our curriculum maps can help you align our resources with your existing curriculum plans.

Using our new curriculum maps to support your classroom planning

In this blog, we explore why mental health support for teachers is not a luxury but a basic need. 

Breathe between the thoughts: Why mental health support for teachers is not a luxury but a basic need

In this blog, we look at how you can make the most of our Special Educational Needs (SEN) lessons and resources for remote learning.

SEN Support - Accessible remote learning & making the most of the Oak offer

In the new world of online teaching, should schools be trying to do more live teaching, or use more recorded lessons? We explore the options.

Using Oak vs live lessons: does it have to be one or the other?

Children's mental health week virtual assembly poster

We're working with Place2be and BAFTA Kids to bring you a free assembly as part of Children's Mental Health Week 2021. 

Join our assembly for Children’s Mental Health Week 2021

Read our five top tips for parents who are supporting their children with home learning.

Top tips for parents & carers supporting home learning

Read how teachers, ever the innovators, found new and unexpected ways to use Oak to support their work.

Innovative ways schools are using Oak’s lessons and resources

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.

Blog

Lesson planning

Categories

Art and design at Oak: Our approach to imagery and references

Teaching computing that matters

Transform food education for your pupils

Teaching online safety in schools: tackling real risks to help pupils stay safe