Oak National Academy

Oak National Academy is an organisation providing an online classroom and resource hub in the UK.

[4] Oak National Academy was founded in April 2020 in response to school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic, and was originally incubated as part of the Reach Foundation in Feltham, registered charity 1129683.

[citation needed] It is an online classroom and resource hub created in response to the closure of schools during the coronavirus pandemic.

[12] On Tuesday 23 June, the government announced that Oak National Academy would be given £4.3 million funding to provide lessons for pupils for the 2020/21 academic year as a contingency plan for the continuing pandemic.

[15] He is Chair of Governors at Bay Leadership Academy in Morecambe, a Trustee at The Brilliant Club, and an independent government adviser on professional development.

These were provided by organisations like the Scouts, Bite Back 2030 and Jamie's Farm and include activities like cook-a-long, arts and debating clubs.

[24] To meet schools' needs, Oak released its curriculum plan for 2020/21 in July and prepared the majority of lessons for September.

Reduced workload and improving the quality of teaching and learning were reported by teachers as being the two biggest motivations for using Oak.

Example slide deck from an Oak National Academy lesson.
Example worksheet from an Oak National Academy lesson