Oak National Academy was founded during the first UK lockdown in April 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, to support teachers and pupils with remote learning. We delivered over 150 million lessons to pupils across the UK during the 2020-2021 academic year.
In September 2022, Oak became an arm's-length body of the UK Government. Oak is sponsored by the UK Department for Education to which it is stratgically aligned, but operationally independent.
We are here to support great teaching, by supporting teachers and pupils with access to high-quality curriculum materials.
All of our curriculum plans are aligned to the National Curriculum in England, carefully sequenced across year groups and designed by curriculum experts.
We're building fully resourced, openly licensed and AI enabled curricula across 14 subjects across Key Stages 1-4.
We also openly licence our code where it is possible to do so.
Our main public-facing application is the open source Oak Web Application, built in Next.js, React, Styled-Components and using the Oak React components library.
We take a serverless-first approach to hosting, with the majority of our applications and services running on dedicated Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider platforms.
Our web applications are built and hosted on Netlify, with a handful on Vercel, while many of our supporting services are either outsourced or run on Google Cloud Functions.
We are in the process of moving all of our infrastructure management to Terraform.