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Hi world 👋 We've been created by 40 teachers. Want to know more about who we are and how we can support teachers? Our Principal
@matthewhood
and Head of English
@ramender10
tell you more...
#LearnWithOak
We'd be really grateful if you could spread the word by retweeting us. All our resources and content have been made by over 40 volunteer teachers. Providing video lessons and resources for three hours of learning a day for primary, and four hours a day for secondary
We know how hard teachers have been working since schools closed. Our free lessons and resources are designed to complement existing teaching and planning. Created by 40 state school teachers working together to respond to school closures. Website launches tomorrow morning 🖥️ 👩🏫
We’re thrilled to launch the
#VirtualSchoolLibrary
in partnership with
@Literacy_Trust
, which will offer free books and audiobooks to pupils as they learn from home. 📚
This week, you can read
@FansofJWilson
's The Story of Tracy Beaker. Visit 🙌
Drumroll please... 🥁🥁🥁
This week, we're absolutely thrilled to have The Duchess of Cambridge leading our assembly with
@tes
on kindness ❗️❤️👫
With help with from some special guests from
@WaterlooPA
🤗
Don't miss it this Thursday at 10am!
@KensingtonRoyal
@Place2Be
From tomorrow, our online collection of video lessons and linked curricular resources will be available 👩💻. Any teacher in the country is free to use them to complement their own work. Tag a teacher friend below ⏬ ⬇️ 🔽
#LearnWithOak
The results are in...as of 4pm, over a quarter of a million lessons had been accessed by pupils up and
down the country, from Scotland to the South Coast! Thanks so much to all the teachers who volunteered their time to create these incredible lessons and resources
#LearnWithOak
Any moves to remote education must be matched by support to make sure every child has access to internet data.
📱 📶 One million children can only access the internet on mobile data.
It's time for mobile networks to make educational sites data-free, to end the
#DigitalDivide
Our new online classroom is *open*! It's a free resource which includes video lessons 🎬 to support teachers 👩🏽🏫 during this time. Take a look and tag a teacher friend who might like to use it
The whole
#LearnWithOak
family is really chuffed for
@matthewhood
and
@dmthomas90
, who've been awarded OBEs for their role in creating Oak. They've always kept us focused on supporting teachers and pupils and we're a pretty proud team this morning ☺️🥰
🤯 🤯 🤯
We're totally blown away by just how many teachers and families we've been able to help since the start of 2021.
To each and every one of you: have a great (and restful!) weekend. We'll see you for more next week. 💪
#LearnWithOak
🎉 Data campaign 🎉
We're very excited to say that
@VodafoneUK
,
@O2
,
@ThreeUK
and
@EE
have agreed to join our campaign for zero-rating education sites 🥳
We now have some work to do with
@MuxHQ
and all involved, but this is a massive step forward in closing the
#DigitalDivide
👏
🚨We have news! 🚨
Something exciting is coming next week… we are delighted to be launching
#OakActivityClub
– fun-filled and engaging activities for half-term. More below ⬇️
📢📢 We have big news! 📢📢
Supporting teachers is at the core of everything we do, so we are delighted to announce that we'll continue to do so all next academic year! 🌟 💚 📚
Read more 👇 and here 👉
Did we mention that The Duchess of Cambridge is leading tomorrow's assembly on acts of kindness? 😌😊
@KensingtonRoyal
Tune in at 10am for a special assembly with
@WaterlooPA
, created in collaboration with children's mental health charity
@Place2Be
🌟
Over 1,000,000 children have been learning through Oak's lessons today... 😱
Well done to all of you on completing another day of hard work. We'll see you tomorrow for more. 👊💚
📚 Yesterday, 280,000 children learnt with Oak.
🤯 Today? Over 780,000!
We're delighted to be able to support so many of you and your pupils.
There's hard weeks ahead, but well done for getting through today and know we're here whenever you need us 💚💪
#teachershelpingteachers
On Monday we'll launch our mainstream lessons and resources. We're excited to be working with
@AnneHeavey321
and
@KarenWespieser
to shortly launch our SEND offer. Watch this space 👀
#LearnWithOak
We hope you all enjoyed today's assembly about acts of kindness, led by the Duchess of Cambridge ! 💚
@KensingtonRoyal
@Place2Be
If you didn't catch it with
@tes
, tune in from 11am today to watch it on our website:
Schools across the country have moved mountains this week to keep pupils learning. And a staggering...
✨2.2 MILLION✨
of them have been learning with Oak 😮🤩
We feel incredibly privileged to be able to play a small part in supporting teachers. See you for more on Monday 😊💪
Morning everyone!
Join us at 10am today for our weekly assembly in partnership with
@tes
, where the Duchess of Cambridge will explore the theme of kindness 💗😊
@KensingtonRoyal
Tune in at 10am here:
Next week's lessons and resources are now available in the online classroom 📚📽️. And don't forget, we've also published our plan of all lessons until half-term too
#LearnWithOak
As schools return for the new term, we're here to support you through any disruption you may face, including staff absence. You can find all our top tips here ➡️
Here's a reminder of what's freely available to you 🪧 [THREAD] ⬇️⬇️⬇️
How did we start?
@OakNational
was created by over 40 state school teachers from across the country, working together to respond to coronavirus lockdown. We're looking forward to sharing resources and meeting you tomorrow 🤳
#LearnWithOak
#ThrowbackThursday
to our assembly on kindness with the Duchess of Cambridge 💙
@KensingtonRoyal
With special guest pupils from
@WaterlooPA
🌈
Created in collaboration with children's mental health charity
@Place2Be
Comment your favourite assembly from last term below! 👇 👇
Well, everyone... happy
#halfterm
! 🙌
A HUGE round of applause to all of you for getting through a challenging start to 2021. It's been tough – but as always, the resilience of teachers shines through. 🌟
Here's to hoping you all get some well-deserved rest over the break. 💚
Following the Prime Minister's announcement that schools in England are to move to remote learning for the majority of pupils from tomorrow,
@OakNational
is ready to support teachers.
Visit for 10,000 free lessons made for teachers, by teachers.
Thread👇
Our teachers are going to try and record a whole year’s lessons over the coming weeks. The majority will be available before September to help you plan ahead.
Read more here:
As we enter the final week before half term, it's so important to say a huge thank you to all you teachers who have worked under immeasurably challenging circumstances over the past 7 weeks.
So, THANK YOU. You are doing an incredible job for your pupils ⭐🥇💪
🚨 We've got news 🚨
To help schools plan, today we're publishing our plans for (most of) the lessons which will be available for 2020/21.
Oak's here as a free, optional, resource to support any school’s contingency planning. We hope it's useful 👍📚
🌟 New subjects have arrived 🌟
Hurrah! Primary French & Spanish, Primary Art, Secondary RSHE, Physical Education and Design & Technology have now landed 🎉
Head to to explore the exciting units that have been added 🥳
🚨 Quiz result sharing is here! 🚨
With more pupils soon returning to school, we want to support your efforts on catch-up and checking progress. So we're delighted to launch our most-requested feature... allowing pupils to share quiz results directly with teachers 🥳🎉🎉🎉
🇺🇦 We’ve got more news… 🇺🇦
From today, all 10,000 of our lessons – including video captions and worksheets – can be auto-translated into Ukrainian.
It’s a very small contribution to support children seeking refuge in the UK from this horrific, senseless war.
Due to the amazing support of
@ITVSignPost
, we've been able to launch our first BSL signed lessons for lower ages. A huge thank-you for helping us make
#LearnWithOak
more accessible
🚨 We’re staying open! 🚨
🥳 Our 40,000 free lessons, slides and resources will be available next year to help your planning, in-class teaching, and to address the impact of the pandemic.
Head to our new planning pages to see how we can support you 👉
Who will be joining us at 10am for our inaugural assembly with
@tes
? The Archbishop of Canterbury,
@JustinWelby
will be giving a message of hope 🙌 🙏 And we'll be joined by
@GavinWilliamson
too. Tune in at
With today’s announcement,
@OakNational
is here to support your remote teaching plans:
👉Use our Teacher Hub for 10,000 free lessons (most of which you can edit)
👉Sign up for our webinar on Monday with
@matthewhood
to get support
Check out what lessons we'll have, when 📒🤓👩🏫
We've published our full curriculum plan until half-term. We hope it helps in your planning. Please RT to share.
(p.s. don't forget there's a tab for primary and a tab for secondary)
🔔 Rise and shine! It’s Virtual Assembly day! 🔔
We’re proud to kick off
#ChildrensMentalHealthWeek
2021 with
@Place2Be
&
@BAFTA
Kids and launch a week of activities to support young people. 💚 🧡
Tune in at 9am (or watch back when you can!) at ✨
Have you heard about our assembly this Thursday with
@tes
and
@Disney
? Nala will be teaching us to sing 'The Circle of Life' from The Lion King 🦁
Watch it at 10am, Thursday on
@tes
, or catch up afterwards at
Our online classroom has been designed to be as accessible as possible, and to enable all students to be able to use it. From May 4th, we'll be offering a specialist curriculum too. More info at:
#LearnWithOak
Did you know that our entire curriculum plan for the next half term is now live? Tag a colleague who might find it useful when planning after half-term 😎
Don’t reinvent the wheel this week.
We’re here to help.
🎁 : 10,000 lessons including videos, presentations, worksheets & quizzes, shareable directly to your existing VLE
🤝 : How-to videos, FAQs & webinars (signup below)
🚨We’ve got news🚨
We’ve been blown away by your response and feedback.
For week two of
#LearnWithOak
here’s some new things we’re launching, and improvements we’re making. Have a read 👇👇
Today is National 'Thank A Teacher Day'🙏
We can come together as a nation to say thank you to teachers across the country who are making a difference. Not only during these unprecedented times, but every day of the year
#ThankATeacher
#LearnWithOak
Our next
#VirtualSchoolLibrary
Author of the Week is the wonderful Nizrana Farook! 📖 😍
Visit to read or listen to
@NizRite
's The Girl Who Stole an Elephant for free 🐘 plus watch an exclusive video and discover Nizrana's top three children's books! 📚
🎉SAVE THE DATE! 🎉
We’ve teamed up with our brilliant friends
@Place2Be
&
@BAFTA
Kids (and some special guests!) to bring the nation’s kids together and discuss some really important ways to stay happy and well right now.
When? 9am Mon 1st Feb
Where?
We're hoping for the best, but we all need a back-up plan 🤔😊
So we’re staying open for 2020/21 as a free, optional, resource. We’ll have a more flexible curriculum and the majority of lessons for the year available by September.
Read more here:
There are only two weeks to go until this year’s Children’s Mental Heath Week, and we’re excited to be teaming up with
@Place2Be
and
@BAFTA
Kids to kick off a really important week of events 🤩🧠🗣💛
You’ll want to set your reminders for Monday 1st February at 9am...
We want to say a huge thank you to our amazing team of 300 teachers that have now already filmed almost all of our lessons for next year! 😱🎉📽️👩🏫
View our flexible curriculum plans to see how Oak can support your planning:
We've got news 📢
We're excited to be launching our mainstream offer on Tuesday 1st September, with thousands of resources for the year ahead 📚
Created by teachers, for teachers, we're here to support your contingency plans 👩🏫
Stay tuned for more details 🤗
💚 Teachers 💚
We know today will be hard. Take a moment. If you need it, our ready-made schedule is here for you 👐
Send pupils and parents here whilst you develop your full remote plan.
There's more help on making your plan in the thread below 👇
🚨 We’ve got news! 🚨
Our initial specialist curriculum is now live. As are next week’s lessons, subtitles and our first
@britishsignBSL
. Plus, there’s some news about The Lion King 🦁!
Read our updates, based on your great feedback 👇
Wow, what a week. Thank you so much to all the incredible teachers across the country for using our resources. And to the children (and parents!) for learning with us.
#LearnWithOak
Have you seen our new specialist curriculum? We also have some lessons signed in British Sign Language, thanks to amazing support from
@ITVSignPost
and the National Deaf Children’s Society
@NDCS_UK
! Subtitled lessons are also available to support pupils with hearing impairments😀
Did you know that there are just as many dogs in the country as schoolchildren?
That's why, from today, we're em-bark-ing on a new adventure: Bark National Academy. 🐶
Before you start hounding us with questions, you can find out more here 👉
Our lessons from the last few weeks aren't going anywhere and we've just put up lessons for next week too. Lessons now include History, Geography, RE at KS4 and PSHE for KS3/4. Music, Computing and DT coming soon! 🤗
#LearnWithOak
Trainee teachers have had a far-from-typical training year. With in-person lesson observations limited, we’ve produced a set of videos that ITT providers can use to support trainees in observing, deconstructing, analysing and adapting lessons ➡️
THREAD ⬇️
We've been working hard to broaden Oak's curriculum further and offer more subjects to schools from January, and we're THRILLED to be announcing the upcoming addition of:
🌐 KS3-4 RSHE (PHSE)
📏 KS1-3 D&T
🎭 KS1-3 Drama
🏉 KS1-3 PE
🎨 Primary Art
🗣️ Primary MFL
With today’s news of a staggered return to secondary schools in January,
@OakNational
is here to support you.
Here’s a reminder of our free, quality-assured online lessons and resources, and the links you can save, to save you time 👇👇
Happy week one birthday
@OakNational
! We're blown away that over *2 MILLION* lessons were accessed with us last week 😱.
Please retweet to let your teaching colleagues know about us.
#LearnWithOak
🙋 Teachers: have you seen our brand new Lesson & Resource Directory?
This downloadable directory lists EVERY SINGLE lesson available in Teacher Hub – and even shows where downloadable slides and worksheets are available 🙌 🙌 🙌
See for yourself:
🚨 BIG NEWS: We're officially staying open! 🙌🎉
Our aim has always been to support teachers, with great resources made by teachers, for teachers.
We're delighted to continue doing just that, becoming an independently run, arm’s-length body. 🧑🏫💚
What does this all mean? ⬇️
Only one week to go until we go live with our virtual assembly for
#ChildrensMentalHealthWeek
! 🤩
We're bringing the nation's children's together with
@Place2Be
and
@BAFTA
Kids next Monday at 9am. See you there! 🤝
Happy final week of term everyone! 🙌😁
🎉 It's time to celebrate 🎉
Thank you to the brilliant teachers, parents and pupils everywhere who've been going above and beyond this term 🌟
So kick back and relax, we're here all summer if you want to keep learning with Oak 🌞
Welcome to the team!
Oak National Academy is thrilled to have
@MccreaEmma
join us as our Head of Curriculum, leading a small but talented team to support schools with high-quality lessons during Covid-19.
To every teacher today, whether you're going back into school or not, we know:
🌳 How much you care.
🌳 How hard you're working.
🌳 You're doing all you can for your pupils.
If you need support with remote teaching, Oak remains here
We're adding nearly 1000 new lessons! 🥳
Yes, you heard us right! We've got Drama, PE, RSHE, Art, Languages and D&T all rolling out from January 😆 🎉
Can't wait til then? Our curriculum maps are available now to help your planning! 🙌 🗺️ Take a peak:
Wow, what an incredible few weeks! Thank you so much to all the incredible teachers across the country who've put all our resources and video lessons together. We hope you've all had a good rest this weekend. 👏 💛 🛀 ☕️
#LearnWithOak
Let’s get physical… 🎽
That's right, Physical Education is here!
@afPE_PE
and
@YouthSportTrust
have developed KS1-3 lessons, adding such a vital resource for children’s physical and mental health to Oak 💚 🏃
Take a look at our available units at ✨
We’re thrilled to be working with
@Place2Be
and
@BAFTA
Kids to bring you a virtual school assembly on the theme of
#ChildrensMentalHealthWeek
. 💚
More details and exciting updates coming soon... 🤗
We've teamed up with
@BAFTA
Kids and
@OakNational
to create a free virtual assembly for
#ChildrensMentalHealthWeek
. 🙌
Available to all schools and families on 1 February – the assembly will feature pupils and some well-known faces.
Find out more 👉
Have you heard about our inaugural assembly this Thursday in partnership with
@tes
? The Archbishop of Canterbury
@JustinWelby
@churchofengland
will be delivering a message of Hope. It will be streamed on the
@tes
website and remain on afterwards
A host of well-loved children’s authors have lined up to support the
#VirtualSchoolLibrary
🙌 each will help us to share free books or audiobooks weekly to keep children reading. The amazing
@FansofJWilson
is up first!
Watch out for new authors announced every Monday... 📚 👀
Set your alarms for 10am tomorrow⏰Helen Sharman will be giving the third Oak National Assembly with
@tes
🌠🚀🔭. It will stream on the Tes YouTube channel and stay up on our website after.
#LearnWithOak
Planning for next week? Let us help! All our resources are made by teachers, for teachers. The lessons for next week went live yesterday, and we're keeping all the previous content up too 🤗
#LearnWithOak
This has been a fantastic effort from so many teachers and therapists. As ever, there's still more we want to do.
We're hoping to share more later this weekend. So stay tuned 👀
Teachers 👋 would you believe you’ve delivered 86 million Oak lessons since January?
It’s been a challenging time, but once again your determination has shone through. We're wishing you all the best of luck for Monday. 💚
But we’re still here to help... ⬇️🖥️
To better support schools, we're making changes. We will:
📚 Publish our full curriculum by early July
🎥 Record and publish lessons for the *whole year* by Sept
Read more about our 2020/21 offer and sign up for our upcoming webinars here: