Oak National Academy 2022-2025 Strategy - April 2024 update

Oct 21, 2026

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Oak National Academy’s three-year strategy update (2022–2025, April 2024) sets out how the organization will continue supporting schools, teachers, and pupils through free, accessible digital curriculum products. The plan focuses on reducing teacher workload in lesson planning while building professional expertise through adaptable, optional resources. It also outlines continuing remote-education support, governance, strategic goals, and measurable impact, including large-scale lesson usage and significant time savings for teachers.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

FormatPDF

Pages18

Reading Time45 min

AccessFree to download

Welcome

About Oak

Oak's foundations and Oak today

Oak on a page

Theory of change

Strategic goals

How we deliver our purpose

Our governance

Strategy 2022-2025 April 2024 update Table of contents 3 Welcome 4 About Oak 6 Oak's foundations and Oak today 8 Oak on a page 9 Theory of change 10 Strategic goals 14 How we deliver our purpose 17 Our governance Welcome to Oak National Academy We are delighted to introduce you to the final update of Oak National Academy’s three-year strategy, outlining the scale of our ambition to support schools, teachers and pupils across the country. We began working on this strategy in 2022 when Oak became an independent public body with the purpose of improving pupil outcomes and closing the disadvantage gap by supporting teachers to teach, and pupils to access, a high-quality curriculum. Since then, we’ve been working with curriculum partners to release thousands of new resources, evolving our product to better support teachers, and growing our user base. In the final year of our current strategy, we’ll continue to support and improve our free, accessible, digital support to schools and teachers by helping to tackle two major issues. Firstly, alleviating teacher workload within lesson planning, to empower teachers with more time to focus on their pupils. Secondly, building expertise, guiding teachers and school staff towards models and advice that help professionals in the sector to improve their schools’ own curriculum. Alongside this, we’re continuing to offer a digital, remote-education backstop. This three-year strategy lays out how we are going to achieve that. At the heart of our approach is the knowledge that it is schools and teachers who know their context and pupils best. So as we continue to share new lesson planning and teaching resources, they will always be entirely optional and fully adaptable. It is our role to support and help build the expertise of teachers, maintaining professional autonomy. It must always be they who choose what and how to teach. Sir Ian Bauckham CBE Chair Matt Hood OBE Chief Executive About Oak We build high-quality, free and optional digital curriculum products to share the brilliance of teachers from across the country. We aim to put the best curriculum thinking, the deepest subject expertise and the smartest learning design at teachers' fingertips. All to help build their expertise and reduce their workload. Our purpose To improve pupil outcomes and close the disadvantage gap by supporting teachers to teach, and pupils to access a high-quality curriculum. Strategic goals Over the next three years, we will achieve three strategic goals: 1 Contribute to improvements in the curriculum in schools 2 More teachers and pupils choose to use our products, more often 3 Become a high-performing, well-respected part of the sector Impact Over 164 million lessons taken1 40% of teacher users saved an average of 4 hours per week2 20% of all teachers used Oak over the past 6 months3 Supporting those in the most deprived areas – two-thirds more lessons taken in these communities4 1 Oak data analytics, March 2023 2 Oak National Academy annual evaluation by ImpactEd, 2023 3 Teacher Tapp, November 2023 4 Oak National Academy annual evaluation by ImpactEd, 2023 5 5 Oak's foundations The story of Oak is one of the tenacity, agility and collaboration of teachers and those dedicated to educating our country’s children. In 2020, when the majority of pupils were unable to attend school at the start of the pandemic, teachers joined forces with schools, technology experts and education organisations. In under two weeks they had built and launched the first version of Oak to provide remote learning support for teachers and pupils nationally. Across the next two years, we iterated and developed our offer to best support teachers and pupils. A diverse coalition of schools, subject associations, publishers, technology companies, and over 500 teachers created fully-sequenced online curricula, covering 27 subjects from key stages 1 to 4, and an

FAQs

What is the main purpose of Oak National Academy’s strategy?

To improve pupil outcomes and close the disadvantage gap by supporting teachers to teach and pupils to access a high-quality curriculum.

What two major issues does the strategy focus on in the final year?

Alleviating teacher workload in lesson planning and building expertise by guiding teachers and school staff toward practical models and advice.

How does Oak aim to maintain teacher autonomy when sharing resources?

Resources are offered as entirely optional and fully adaptable so schools and teachers can choose what and how to teach.

Oct 21, 2026

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