📚 Get high-quality, free teaching resources made by people who know teaching as well as you do. ✨ Now available across the whole national curriculum.
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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
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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
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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 🖥️ 👩🏫
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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 library.thenational.academy 🙌
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Morning teachers 👩🏽🏫👩🏫👨🏾🏫! Our new website full of online lessons is *live*
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 oaknat.uk/2RTA0YO
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After our call to tackle the #DigitalDivide, and in the week we've reached 100 million lessons delivered, we’re thrilled to announce that Oak is now DATA-FREE for all on @VodafoneUK @EE @BT_uk @O2 @giffgaff @ThreeUK @SMARTYMobileUK @TescoMobile @SkyUK @VirginMedia @Plusnet 🎉
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We are delighted that @thebodycoach's P.E. lessons will be available on our website from Monday! Who is up for some exercise with the kids? 🏃 🙋 👏
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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 ☺️🥰
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🤯 🤯 🤯
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
ALT 4.1 million pupils learning with Oak since the start of term; 28 million lessons by pupils since the start of term; Monday – Oak's busiest day ever with 46 years of video watched by 1.1 million pupils; 60million+ lessons since Oak started.
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🎉 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 👏
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🚨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 ⬇️
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📢📢 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 👉oaknat.uk/3fQtLPe
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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 🌟
oaknat.uk/3dcOVFx
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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. 👊💚
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📚 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
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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
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Today we have hit another milestone, having now delivered 10 million lessons since the #OakNationalAcademy launch!! 👏📚💚
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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: oaknat.uk/2CgGThX
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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 😊💪
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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: oaknat.uk/37DtfRx
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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
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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 ➡️ oaknat.uk/3FUrYpG
Here's a reminder of what's freely available to you 🪧 [THREAD] ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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We're excited to open tomorrow 🏫
We are here to support teachers to support their pupils #LearnWithOak
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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
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#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! 👇 👇
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Our Virtual Assembly lineup is unmissable: @Linds_bluepeter, @RhysStephenson1, @sharnajackson, @nikkilillyy, & @mattdavelewis!
There’s another special guest yet to be revealed… but you’ll have to watch to find out who 🤫 😏 #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek
🔗 oaknat.uk/3a5Dxvy
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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. 💚
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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 teachers.thenational.academy for 10,000 free lessons made for teachers, by teachers.
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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: oaknat.uk/3glIfa2
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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 ⭐🥇💪
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🚨 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 👍📚
oaknat.uk/3glIfa2
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Have you used our online resources yet? They were created by over 40 state school teachers. Let us know what you think!
#LearnWithOak
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🌟 New subjects have arrived 🌟
Hurrah! Primary French & Spanish, Primary Art, Secondary RSHE, Physical Education and Design & Technology have now landed 🎉
Head to teachers.thenational.academy to explore the exciting units that have been added 🥳
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🇺🇦 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.
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🚨 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 🥳🎉🎉🎉
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🚨 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 👉 oaknat.uk/3BwC1iK
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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
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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 oaknat.uk/3aQrssi
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This week we are celebrating 2 months of Oak National Academy!! Supporting teachers, parents and pupils across the UK 📚 🌈 🌟
#LearnWithOak
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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) teachers.thenational.academy…
👉Sign up for our webinar on Monday with @matthewhood to get support crowdcast.io/e/d7dxbyci/regi…
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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.
oaknat.uk/curriculum-plan
(p.s. don't forget there's a tab for primary and a tab for secondary)
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🔔 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 oaknat.uk/3a5Dxvy ✨
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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 oaknat.uk/3faatEP
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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: oaknat.uk/2S8JdNe
#LearnWithOak
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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 😎oaknat.uk/3enttOO
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Don’t reinvent the wheel this week.
We’re here to help.
🎁 teachers.thenational.academy: 10,000 lessons including videos, presentations, worksheets & quizzes, shareable directly to your existing VLE
🤝 support.thenational.academy: How-to videos, FAQs & webinars (signup below)
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We hope you've learned your lesson by now @Weetabix, but just sliding this across in case you want to revise... 😬📚 oaknat.uk/3q4xDSh
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🚨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 👇👇
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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 oaknat.uk/2T3HtoJ #ThankATeacher
#LearnWithOak
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Our next #VirtualSchoolLibrary Author of the Week is the wonderful Nizrana Farook! 📖 😍
Visit library.thenational.academy 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! 📚
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🎉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? classroom.thenational.academ…
ALT The image reads ‘Children’S Mental Health Week Virtual Assembly’
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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:oaknat.uk/2NyXBvD
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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: oaknat.uk/2Dk4sXW
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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 🤗
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💚 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 👇
classroom.thenational.academ…
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Next week's lessons and resources are all up at oaknat.uk/35srgyI. We hope they're helpful for you and your students 👍📚 #LearnWithOak
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🚨 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 👇
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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
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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😀
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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 👉 oaknat.uk/39y9Zr4
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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 ➡️ oaknat.uk/3rQ0omi
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ALT Introducing Lessons for ITT. New support videos available for ITT providers and trainee teachers.
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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
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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
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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 👇👇
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We're pleased to be introducing the first elements of our specialist curriculum across Oak National Academy today 👍🤳
More info at: oaknat.uk/2VSAHEc
#LearnWithOak
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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
oaknat.uk/2VPgPAQ
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🙋 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: oaknat.uk/3qwVhqM
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🚨 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? ⬇️
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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! 🤝
ALT Place2Be's Children's Mental Health Week: Virtual Assembly available 1st February
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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 🌞
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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.
ALT Emma McCrea, Head of Curriculum, Oak National Academy
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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 oaknat.uk/2yNFBtC
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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: oaknat.uk/376Pssw
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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
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Have you been learning with Oak National Academy this week? Let us know what you think! 💡📖
#LearnWithOak
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Hands up if you’re enjoying using #OakNationalAcademy at home! 🙋🏿♂️We would love to see your pics, so don’t forget to tag us 📸 #LearnWithOak
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Bookworms assemble - our brand new author of the week is @TheSallyGardner!
Visit the #VirtualSchoolLibrary to read Sally’s book Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon for FREE this week 📚🌙@Literacy_Trust @_ZephyrBooks
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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 teachers.thenational.academy ✨
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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 👉 bit.ly/2MMsBLd
ALT Children's Mental Health Week virtual assembly
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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 oaknat.uk/2xXWe5b afterwards
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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... 📚 👀
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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
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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
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You do not want to miss our @tes assembly tomorrow. It will feature Nala from @Disney's @TheLionKing🌅🎤! Tune in on the @tes YouTube channel at 10am🕙 oaknat.uk/2zdQxAs or watch it after on our website oaknat.uk/2KRIjk8
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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... ⬇️🖥️
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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 👀
Virtual school @OakNational is launching a curriculum for SEND pupils, with lessons designed for families to work through with their child
tes.com/news/coronavirus-oak…
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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: oaknat.uk/3fQtLPe
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