Think Oak only covers a few subjects? Think again. Explore free, expert-made curriculum plans and classroom resources for every subject, KS1-4. 

Think Oak only covers a few subjects? Think again

Discover free curriculum plans, classroom resources and AI tools to save you time and spark inspiration across every subject.

You don’t need an emergency for Oak. All you need is a classroom

Find out more about our brand new financial education and real-world maths lessons designed to help pupils – and support teachers – as they learn about money and develop financial skills to manage money sensibly, both on and offline. 

Helping pupils get smart about financial education and online spending – new lesson resources for primary and secondary teachers

Looking for examples of high-quality curricula to help you plan your own? From art to sports, coding to food and nutrition, find about our new curriculum plans and see how they can help inspire your planning. 

Our new curriculum plans are here

Are you an education innovator, creating products to help teachers and pupils? Do you want first access to Oak’s open-sourced content?  

You’re invited to Oak National Academy’s Hackathon. An open invitation to experiment with our open-source content to create high-impact, exciting ed-tech products that enhance teaching and learning. 



You're invited to our hackathon

Our new curriculum plans are now available! We've got your questions covered in this blog. 

New curricula: what you need to know

We are developing a new secondary citizenship curriculum and teaching resources. Find out who we are partnering with and more about their work here. 

Introducing our citizenship curriculum partner

Find out more about our relationships & health education and RSHE curriculum partner and our collaboration to develop primary and secondary curriculum plans and teaching resources. 

Introducing our Relationships & Health Education and RSHE curriculum partner

We will be developing a new primary languages curriculum and secondary MFL curriculum in collaboration with our curriculum partner. Find out who they are in this blog. 

Introducing our languages and MFL curriculum partner

In this blog we introduce you to our primary and secondary RE curriculum partners and tell you about the work we will be doing with them over the coming months. 

Introducing our RE curriculum partners

We are delighted to announce our primary and secondary PE curriculum partner. Here you can find out more about them and the work we will be doing with them. 

Introducing our PE curriculum partners

Here we introduce our new primary and secondary D&T curriculum partner and explore how we will be working with them

Introducing our design & technology curriculum partner

Find out who our new curriculum partners are for KS3 and KS4 geography and how they will be working with us. 



Introducing our secondary geography curriculum partners 

Here you’ll find an introduction to our new art and design curriculum partner and the work they will be doing in the year ahead



Introducing our art and design curriculum partner

Find out about our new computing curriculum partner who we will be collaborating with on primary and secondary curricula and resources. 



Introducing our computing curriculum partner

In October, we launched an open procurement process to find our newest curriculum partners. Find out who they are and how they will be shaping Oak's curriculum in this blog.

Introducing our new curriculum partners

Here we introduce our new primary music curriculum partners. Read more about their expertise and the curriculum principles they will be following. 

Introducing our primary music curriculum partners

As well as sharing our curricula, we have started to develop plans to signpost additional curriculum sequences from Oak’s online products. We would like to hear from teachers, schools and providers to help inform our approach to sharing additional curricula. 

Give your feedback on how Oak could signpost curricula

Find out more about how you can apply to join one of our subject expert groups to share your expertise and help shape our new curricula and resources 

Share your subject expertise in our expert groups to help shape our new curricula and resources

Our Chief Executive Matt Hood reflects on our new curricula and the limitations and benefits it will have for teachers.

What our new curriculum is, and what it isn't

Submit your bid to work with us to create brand new curriculum sequences and teaching resources

Launched: open procurement for new curricula and resources

We explore our maths subject expert group members' thoughts on our curriculum explainer statements, curriculum threads and sequencing. 

Collaborating with our maths expert group 

We have now met with our music expert group for feedback on our new curricula twice. Here we explore their thoughts on our curriculum explainer statements, curriculum threads and sequencing. 

Collaborating with our music expert group 

We sought feedback from our history expert group on our new curriculum explainer statements and sequencing. Find out what they said. 

Collaborating with our history expert group 

Learn about our subject expert group's feedback on the explainer statements, curriculum threads and sequencing of our new English curriculum. 

Collaborating with our English expert group 

Here we explore feedback we gathered on the curriculum explainer statements, curriculum threads and sequencing for our new science curriculum. 

Collaborating with our science expert group 

We explore our geography expert group's feedback on our new curriculum.

Collaborating with our geography expert group 

We are growing our community of partners and are now looking to share information with potential new curriculum partners ahead of an open procurement process in the new academic year covering a wide range of subjects. 

New opportunities to create resources for Oak

Open innovation: Licensing and access to Oak's new resources

Open innovation: Licensing and access to our new resources

Read about updates for our 2022-2025 strategy, and how we're continuing to shape the future of Oak.

Our strategy update

Read about how our NEW curriculum partners and subject experts and shaping Oak's curriculum.

History curriculum partner and subject experts

English curriculum partners and subject experts

Read about how our new curriculum partners and subject experts and shaping Oak's geography curriculum.

Geography curriculum partner and subject experts

Maths curriculum partners and subject experts

Science curriculum partner and subject experts

Oak's new curriculum partners and subject experts 

Music curriculum partner and subject experts

Interested in working with our curriculum partners to make our new lesson planning and teaching resources? Hear first hand about what's involved.

I spent a month shaping teaching resources for Oak. Here's what I learnt.

We're asking science teachers to tell us what you want us to improve in our teaching resources to better support your planning.

Road test new science resources and tell us how we can improve

Now Oak is evolving, we want to involve you every step of the way. Explore some of the ways you can get involved.

Shaping Oak’s future: how you can get involved

Join a subject expert group and help to create an inspirational new curriculum. Find out more and how to apply.

Join us as a subject expert and help shape our new curriculum

Got a great set of resources? We're investing £8 million in developing and sharing curriculum materials – here's how you can bid.

Bid to partner with Oak

It's time for Oak to evolve again. Learn more about our new role and how we plan to grow our support for schools and teachers.

The evolution of Oak: supporting you to thrive

Find out more and save your place for a market engagement webinar providing further information about the proposed open procurement process.

Create new resources for Oak

Oak chief executive, Matt Hood, explains why curriculum matters so much and the system-wide challenges Oak will play a role in addressing. 

Curriculum matters: Matt Hood’s keynote session at The Festival of Education

Following recent announcements, we share more information on how Oak will support teachers in delivering excellent curriculum content and improving curriculum expertise.

Oak’s future: Continuing to support teachers and pupils

Oak National Academy and our thousands of lessons, slides and resources will remain available and free into the next year. Find out more.

We’re staying open and free into next year

Learn about our curriculum subject expansion, which includes adding almost 1,000 more lessons to our offering.

New year, new subjects

Hear from Oak Principal, Matt Hood, about how our Teacher Hub complements remote and in-school teaching.

Introducing the new Oak Teacher Hub

Given the on-going uncertainty caused by the pandemic, we're delighted to be staying open for the next academic year. Find out more about our plans. 

Continuing Oak next year

We explore the different ways in which Oak can work with experts in the sector to be more collaborative. 

Making Oak more collaborative

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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Think Oak only covers a few subjects? Think again

You don’t need an emergency for Oak. All you need is a classroom

Helping pupils get smart about financial education and online spending – new lesson resources for primary and secondary teachers

Our new curriculum plans are here