📚❇️ Curriculum must be at the heart of AI innovation - thoughts from our interim CEO John Roberts 📚❇️ Read in @tes, and check out 🧵 for a preview:

🌞 School's out for summer! Hope you're proud of everything you've achieved this year (including just getting to the end of it!). Time for a well-deserved break 🫶

💻 💭 From incel ideology to influencer culture, online safety includes topics that can be tough to teach.  Our new, free resources across KS1 to KS4 provide you with a starting point to open vital conversations with your pupils.  Explore online safety resources: https://oaknat.uk/3THU1RU

Tough topics, made teachable: introducing our new online safety resources: https://oaknat.uk/3THU1RU 💻 Covering vital topics from incel ideology to influencer culture, sensitively, clearly, and safely 💻 Reflect the latest RSHE statutory guidance  💻 Age-appropriate, from KS1 to KS4

In June, we released enough brand new resources to help you plan 832 lessons across the whole national curriculum.  Chances are we’ve got something in there you could use… only one way to find out 👀  Explore resources: https://oaknat.uk/4ju7yrJ

💡 We love hearing about the different ways you have customised our resources and used them to spark creativity.  Here’s one brilliant example from Tom Rye, Deputy Headteacher at Bolingbroke Academy, who used our computing resources to set up a hackathon.

👋🎪 Thanks to everyone who's come and said hello over the last two days at the Festival of Education!  Whether you joined us at a talk, had a chat, or even had a go with Aila, our AI-powered lesson assistant, it was great to meet lots of people who love education as much as we do 🤩

Looking for inspiration for your science curriculum planning? Here are some of the threads that run through ours. Download and adapt to suit your classroom: https://oaknat.uk/44HhmJz

We're back at the Festival of Education today! #EducationFest  If you're around, do head over to Venue 1 at 11.45 to hear from Toby all about navigating AI in the classroom 👀 Otherwise, come and say hello at stand C17 to have a go putting Aila, our AI lesson assistant, to work! 👋

Thanks to everyone who said hello at day 1 of the Festival of Education! We'll be back tomorrow, stand C17 😎 #EducationFest

🤩 Fantastic to see so many of you at Toby and Alex's talk today, on navigating AI in the classroom!  Didn't get in this time? Don't worry, they'll be speaking again tomorrow, 11.45 in Venue 1 👀 and they're about at Stand C17 for the whole festival.

🌞🎪 It's a beautiful day, and we're on site at the Festival of Education!  Come and say hello at Stand C17, have a go at using Aila, our AI-powered lesson assistant, to create a lesson plan in minutes, and grab some goodies.

👀 Get ahead and get what you need for next year - in one click!  You can now download every slide deck, worksheet, quiz and any additional material for a whole unit in one go, rather than going into each lesson individually 🙌

📅 Planning ahead and looking for ways to best support your SEND pupils next year?  Here are a couple of ways teachers have found our resources useful…

🤔 Last minute planning doesn't have to mean last minute stressing! Whatever you've got to plan for this week, we’ve got thousands of brand-new, high-quality resources designed for you to use in your classroom. Grab a handful of slides, quiz, activity, or worksheet, or borrow the whole lot.

🎉Congratulations to all pupils finishing their GCSEs today - and congratulations to you, for getting them through!

📚Saved anything to your brand new library yet?  We know sometimes you find a resource that might be handy next week, next term, or even the one after... Well, now you can come back to it whenever you’re ready. Here’s how 🤩

⛅ Want to make the most of the sun while it's out? Aila can help you adapt your existing lesson plans, so you and your pupils can head outside to learn.  Here’s a few prompts to try! https://oaknat.uk/3E5GcYO

👀 You've been asking for a simpler way to download entire units for longer-term planning… Well, here you go! You can now download every slide deck, worksheet, quiz and any additional material for a whole unit in one go, rather than going into each lesson individually 🙌

Looking for inspiration for your maths curriculum planning? Here are some of the threads that run through ours. Download and adapt to suit your classroom: https://oaknat.uk/3FKd36J

📚 Say hello to your library – your personal space on Oak to save and organise the content that matters most to you. With my library, you can: ✨ Save units and content you want to revisit ✨ Quickly access lessons you use often ✨ Access anytime, anywhere – from any device

🎬 Weekend watch! Here's how primary teacher George is saving time by using our English curriculum.

💡 Planning your English curriculum 💡 Looking for inspiration for your KS3 and KS4 English curriculum planning?  Here are some of the threads that run through ours. Download and adapt to suit your classroom: https://oaknat.uk/3Hkv9g5

📝 Curriculum planning just got easier!   Did you know you can now share lessons with your own notes added, straight from our website? Great for giving colleagues some handy hints about a lesson that went well, or suggesting teaching tweaks 👀 Head to any lesson on our website to have a go.

🤔 Last minute planning doesn't have to mean last minute stressing! Whatever you've got to plan for this week, we’ve got thousands of brand-new, high-quality resources designed for you to use in your classroom. Grab a handful of slides, quiz, activity, or worksheet, or borrow the whole lot.

⏰ Here's how Aila, our AI lesson assistant, can save you some time in the rest of the summer term!  Rewatch the webinar here: https://oaknat.uk/3SvRU2E

Solid advice from primary teacher Lydia to carry into the new half-term when it comes! 🙌

📚Curriculum planning is a big job, but it’s easier with inspiration from high-quality models you can trust!  We’ve got curriculum plans for every national curriculum subject, ready for you to download, edit, adapt for your classroom, and share with colleagues. Explore: https://oaknat.uk/3STExcN

💭 Preparing for upcoming parents’ evenings? Here’s some top tips from class teacher Sara on making them as productive as possible.

📚Thinking about curriculum planning yet?  Here’s a quick refresher on how we can help you, with high-quality models co-designed by subject specialists and classroom teachers.

👀 Looking for ways to support your pupils with half-term or last-minute revision? Here’s a few ways we can help.

👋 What's changed? Everything.  We’ve been working hard with partners from across the sector to re-create all our legacy resources, along with some new stuff too, to support in-class teaching and save you valuable time... Here’s a little bit about how 🧐

⛅ For sunny days when you and your pupils wish you could be outdoors instead of in the classroom… Why not use Aila for inspiration to adapt your lesson plan, so you can do just that?  Here’s a few prompts to try! https://oaknat.uk/3E5GcYO

👋 Great to see so many people at the Schools and Academies Show today!  Thanks to anyone who came along to hear our Head of Curriculum Design, Emma McCrea, Professor Miles Berry, Antoinette Hamilton, Cheryl Shirley, and Chris Temple-Murray for a panel all about the future of curriculum building ✨

🌞 Whether it's SATs, GCSEs, or general summer term excitement, you might find yourself out of the classroom in the next few weeks. Chloé, a Year 5 teacher, has some top tips for setting cover and managing disruption effectively - for your class, and your colleagues!

🤖Looking for a weekend watch?  Get stuck in with some of our AI experts for top tips on using Aila, our AI lesson assistant, to save time this summer! Rewatch the webinar here: https://oaknat.uk/3SvRU2E

🤩 "The lightbulb moments are happening." Lydia uses Oak's primary maths resources - here's what she thinks!

📣 Calling all teachers!  Could you show us how you use Oak resources in your classroom, and tell us about your experiences?  As a thank you, we'll offer a £50 retail voucher to those selected to take part 🙌  Interested, or know someone who might be? Apply here: https://oaknat.uk/3YsEJTQ

🖊️ GCSEs have arrived!  You’ve worked hard to get your pupils ready, and after just a few more weeks, all your hard work and theirs will have paid off - good luck 👏

👀Looking for ways to support your pupils with half-term or last-minute revision? Here’s a few ways we can help.

One week to go!   Get tips on using Aila, our AI lesson assistant, to: ✨ Help prepare your pupils for your exams (SATs or GCSEs) ✨ Save time in your end of term planning ✨ Support your curriculum planning to get ahead for the next academic year Sign up, or get more info: https://oaknat.uk/42KEINr

🧪 How do you plan a science curriculum?  Here’s some of the thinking that went into ours. Revisit your ‘why’ or save for some planning inspiration: https://oaknat.uk/40OTMZw

🌞 Some weekend positivity from Chloë, a Year 5 class teacher. Remember those moments that remind you why you love teaching!

📝 Had a go at sharing with notes yet?  Whether you’re setting cover for disruption over summer or exam time, or sharing ideas with your department for curriculum planning… it just got easier 👀 Head to any lesson on our website to have a go.

☀️ The summer term is here!  Join us on May 7th to find out how Aila, our AI lesson assistant, can help you stay on top of things and support your pupils, this term and beyond! With Hannah-Beth, our AI Quality and Safety Principal 👋 Sign up, or get more info, here: https://oaknat.uk/42KEINr

🏰How do you plan a history curriculum?  Here’s some of the thinking that went into ours. Revisit your ‘why’ or save for some planning inspiration: https://oaknat.uk/40q1iso

🎂 It’s our birthday! Since pulling together those very first resources in 2020 to support remote learning in the pandemic, we’ve been working hard with partners from across the sector to re-create everything, along with some new stuff too, to support in-class teaching.

🐣The hard work of last term is over - and you’ve really been putting our resources to work, hard!  Well done on getting through it, and enjoy a restful break before we’re back for the Summer term 🫶

📚How do you plan an English curriculum?  Here’s some of the thinking that went into ours. Revisit your ‘why’ or save for some planning inspiration: https://oaknat.uk/4gHLvLP

🤔 New term, new tools you can trust!  Here are a few ways Aila, our AI lesson assistant, can help speed along your lesson planning - from real teachers who've put it to use! Have a go: https://oaknat.uk/3E5GcYO