How do I get Started with Oak National Academy?
Firstly, access Oak National Academy. To do this visit thenational.academy. The website has been designed to be easy to use for teachers, pupils and parents and is accessible on most devices, including laptops, tablets and mobiles. There are no sign-ups or logins required.
What is oak and how does it work?
What is Oak? Oak provides a completely free, sequenced plan of video lessons and resources. Your school can use it as you wish to support remote teaching, help lesson planning and lower teacher workload. There are nearly 40,000 lessons and resources across a broad range of subjects from Reception up to Year 11.
How do I plan ahead with Oak?
If you’re using Oak to plan ahead, the first thing we’d recommend you do is go through Oak’s units and map them against your existing curriculum to assess where they match. To help you do that, we have created a curriculum map for each subject to help your planning.
Can teachers see what you do on Oak Academy?
Accessing the lesson via the Teacher Hub allows you to review each section of the lesson, seeing each element individually - the video, presentation slides, worksheet, quiz - and you can even get a transcript of the video which is great if you want to quickly skim to see what the lesson covers.
Can you download Oak Academy videos?
resourced in their entirety with thousands of high-quality, teacher-made lesson slides, videos, worksheets and quizzes - ready for you to download, adapt and share.
Is the Oak Academy a real school?
Oak was created in response to the 2020 United Kingdom education shutdown during the COVID-19 pandemic....Oak National AcademySchool typeVirtual SchoolEstablished2020Age4 to 16Websitehttps://www.thenational.academy/2 more rows
Who owns Oak National Academy?
the Reach FoundationOak National Academy is part of the Reach Foundation, registered charity number 1129683.
What is Key Stage 4 curriculum?
Key Stage 4 (KS4) is the legal term for the two years of school education which incorporate GCSEs, and other examinations, in maintained schools in England normally known as Year 10 and Year 11, when pupils are aged between 14 and 16 by August 31. (In some schools, KS4 work is started in Year 9.)
What key stage is GCSE?
Key Stage 4Key Stage 4 is a stage of secondary education covering years 10 and 11 when children usually take GCSE exams. Children usually take GCSE exams in about eight to ten subjects, which must include English, Mathematics and Science.
What does Pshe stand for?
Personal, social, health and economicPersonal, social, health and economic ( PSHE ) education is an important and necessary part of all pupils' education. All schools should teach PSHE , drawing on good practice, and this expectation is outlined in the introduction to the proposed new national curriculum.
Who made Oak national academy?
Oak National Academy has been created by teachers, for teachers through a collaboration of 40 state schools teachers, plus organisations across the sector.
What key stage is year3?
Key stagesChild's ageYearKey stage4 to 5ReceptionEarly years5 to 6Year 1KS16 to 7Year 2KS17 to 8Year 3KS29 more rows
What key stage is Year 11 UK?
Key Stage 4: Years 10 to 11 (14-16 years old) Key Stage 5: More commonly referred to as College or Sixth Form.
Who made Oak national academy?
Oak National Academy has been created by teachers, for teachers through a collaboration of 40 state schools teachers, plus organisations across the sector.
What years is KS3?
KS3 (Key Stage Three) covers children in Year 7, 8 and 9. They are usually aged between 11-14 and in secondary school.
What year group is Key Stage 3?
Key Stage 3 When children progress to secondary school, they begin with KS3, during Years 7 to 9 when they are 11 to 14 years of age. Key Stage 3 covers the first three years of secondary education.
What key stage is year9?
Key stagesChild's ageYearKey stage11 to 12Year 7KS312 to 13Year 8KS313 to 14Year 9KS314 to 15Year 10KS49 more rows
Pupils
Want to find out more about your favourite subject or revise what you’ve been taught? Missed a lesson at school? Visit our online classroom.
Teachers
Plan ahead and save time with fully sequenced curriculum maps and lesson resources you can download, adapt and share.
Parents & Carers
Looking for lessons to complement your child’s learning? Talk to their teacher about what’s being taught in school, then browse our free resources.
About Oak
Find out more about Oak National Academy and how our full curriculum and free resources can save you time and inspire your work.
2. Less is more
The amazing Josie Mingay running form-time reading aside, it is challenging to get children reading a lot when they’re not in the classroom. Oak runs on the assumption that many children access lessons through a mobile phone, and they need to be as accessible as possible for all learners.
3. Digital simplicity
Technology offers limitless solutions to the problem of educating children remotely, but that doesn’t mean we have to take advantage of all of them. The more complicated we make our lessons, the more hurdles we place in front of our children.
4. Be "pantomime"
One of my favourite pieces of advice on teaching was given to me by Barry Smith, who describes the process by which a teacher becomes larger than life, firing up the pupils through sheer force of personality, as “be pantomime”.
