Chris Fountain
@chrisfountain.bsky.social
"Honey this is way bigger than us/ In the end we're all just tiny specks of dust" | English Subject Lead at Oak National Academy
Easily one of the best things I have ever seen at the theatre. Both times completely floored me. Can't wait to watch it on NT at Home
NEXT TO NORMAL will be available to stream on NT at Home from 2 December 🎉
Experience Michael Longhurst’s hit Donmar Warehouse production of Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical all over again.
📸 Marc Brenner
Experience Michael Longhurst’s hit Donmar Warehouse production of Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical all over again.
📸 Marc Brenner
November 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Easily one of the best things I have ever seen at the theatre. Both times completely floored me. Can't wait to watch it on NT at Home
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NEXT TO NORMAL will be available to stream on NT at Home from 2 December 🎉
Experience Michael Longhurst’s hit Donmar Warehouse production of Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical all over again.
📸 Marc Brenner
Experience Michael Longhurst’s hit Donmar Warehouse production of Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical all over again.
📸 Marc Brenner
November 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
NEXT TO NORMAL will be available to stream on NT at Home from 2 December 🎉
Experience Michael Longhurst’s hit Donmar Warehouse production of Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical all over again.
📸 Marc Brenner
Experience Michael Longhurst’s hit Donmar Warehouse production of Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical all over again.
📸 Marc Brenner
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Proud of the wide support the Curriculum and Assessment Review has attracted from across the educational spectrum.
Labour wants to set up our children for tomorrow. The work of @beckyfrancis.bsky.social and colleagues is an essential step forward in securing standards and opportunity.
Labour wants to set up our children for tomorrow. The work of @beckyfrancis.bsky.social and colleagues is an essential step forward in securing standards and opportunity.
November 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Proud of the wide support the Curriculum and Assessment Review has attracted from across the educational spectrum.
Labour wants to set up our children for tomorrow. The work of @beckyfrancis.bsky.social and colleagues is an essential step forward in securing standards and opportunity.
Labour wants to set up our children for tomorrow. The work of @beckyfrancis.bsky.social and colleagues is an essential step forward in securing standards and opportunity.
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(FWIW, I think the new curriculum review does a really good job at not damaging a system that is working while making sensible recommendations for additions)
November 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
(FWIW, I think the new curriculum review does a really good job at not damaging a system that is working while making sensible recommendations for additions)
We've been working with an incredible school in Milton Keynes who've been using our primary English resources brilliantly to improve pupil outcomes and give teachers more time back. You can read about what they've been doing, and the impact it's had, here: www.thenational.academy/blog/how-a-s...
How a school is transforming English teaching with Oak’s curriculum | Oak National Academy
Great English teaching helps pupils find their voice - as readers, writers and speakers. That’s why our complete English curriculum for key stages 1 to 4 is designed to build confident communicators f...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We've been working with an incredible school in Milton Keynes who've been using our primary English resources brilliantly to improve pupil outcomes and give teachers more time back. You can read about what they've been doing, and the impact it's had, here: www.thenational.academy/blog/how-a-s...
Excited to share that we’ve just launched a new feature on Oak: you can now save units in My Library 🎉📚 I'd massively recommend saving the 'Small Island' unit in there as we have fantastic new lessons coming featuring masterclasses from director Rufus Norris and playwright Helen Edmundson
June 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Excited to share that we’ve just launched a new feature on Oak: you can now save units in My Library 🎉📚 I'd massively recommend saving the 'Small Island' unit in there as we have fantastic new lessons coming featuring masterclasses from director Rufus Norris and playwright Helen Edmundson
Do you want to stop teaching ‘An Inspector Calls’? If so, I’m going to spend most of my 40 minutes later gushing over an incredible play you can teach in its place.
🐝 Start planning which session you will attend using our latest schedule. 🐝
March 29, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Do you want to stop teaching ‘An Inspector Calls’? If so, I’m going to spend most of my 40 minutes later gushing over an incredible play you can teach in its place.
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2/2 Launching with English, maths and science, with history and languages to follow, our resources will help prisoners build knowledge and skills, supporting rehabilitation and reducing reoffending.
Find out more:
Find out more:
Matt Hood: Oak has its critics, but the achievements are many
Outgoing Oak National Academy CEO Matt Hood looks back on the successes and challenges the digital lesson platform has faced over the past five years
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March 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
2/2 Launching with English, maths and science, with history and languages to follow, our resources will help prisoners build knowledge and skills, supporting rehabilitation and reducing reoffending.
Find out more:
Find out more:
I am really looking forward to this. I am going to be talking about why ‘Leave Taking’ and ‘Small Island’ would be great additions to your English curriculum 🌎
🗓️ #LitdriveCPD25 🗓️
We are thrilled to share that Chris Fountain will be speaking at our National Conference #LitdriveCPD25 at the end of the month!
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Tickets still available here: buff.ly/uGAvfFZ
#LitdriveCPD #TeamEnglish @Team_English1
We are thrilled to share that Chris Fountain will be speaking at our National Conference #LitdriveCPD25 at the end of the month!
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Tickets still available here: buff.ly/uGAvfFZ
#LitdriveCPD #TeamEnglish @Team_English1
March 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I am really looking forward to this. I am going to be talking about why ‘Leave Taking’ and ‘Small Island’ would be great additions to your English curriculum 🌎
I love these videos we filmed with Matt Goodfellow. We’ve got a whole unit on the incredible ‘The Final Year’ coming very, very soon
🌍 Happy #WorldPoetryDay!
Inspiring your pupils with the power of words today? Here's poet Matt Goodfellow to give you a hand, in your English lessons or beyond, with his poem Ya Need To Be Able To Pin This Down.
Inspiring your pupils with the power of words today? Here's poet Matt Goodfellow to give you a hand, in your English lessons or beyond, with his poem Ya Need To Be Able To Pin This Down.
March 21, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I love these videos we filmed with Matt Goodfellow. We’ve got a whole unit on the incredible ‘The Final Year’ coming very, very soon
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Read this and the world will seem a better place. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Blind date: ‘I was hoping to meet a total babe. She was a total babe’
Gráinne, 31, a software engineer and musician, meets Alexander, 34, a civil servant
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February 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Read this and the world will seem a better place. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
King of bands 👑
If you’re in town early today, head to the George Tavern from 4pm to hang out with your fellow Los Camp! fans.
Drop It DJs, Merch Desk, free stickers and beer mats, pizza, plus…
We’ve put £500 behind the bar so you can have a pint on us.
(Just show this post at the bar!) 💘
Drop It DJs, Merch Desk, free stickers and beer mats, pizza, plus…
We’ve put £500 behind the bar so you can have a pint on us.
(Just show this post at the bar!) 💘
February 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
King of bands 👑
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👋 Hi, we're Oak National Academy!
Here to help you save hours each week with free resources that help you prepare high-quality classroom teaching for all your pupils.
📝 Get stuck in: oaknat.uk/3PLRML9
Here to help you save hours each week with free resources that help you prepare high-quality classroom teaching for all your pupils.
📝 Get stuck in: oaknat.uk/3PLRML9
Free curriculum plans aligned with National Curriculum | Oak National Academy | Oak National Academy
Discover our free curriculum plans across subjects from KS1 to KS4, all high-quality, fully-sequenced and aligned with the national curriculum.
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January 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
👋 Hi, we're Oak National Academy!
Here to help you save hours each week with free resources that help you prepare high-quality classroom teaching for all your pupils.
📝 Get stuck in: oaknat.uk/3PLRML9
Here to help you save hours each week with free resources that help you prepare high-quality classroom teaching for all your pupils.
📝 Get stuck in: oaknat.uk/3PLRML9
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#TeamEnglish #EduSky Free event online today 16.45-17.30 ! ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
Lit in Colour: research, engagement & impact to date (21 Jan 2025, 16:45 – 17:30)
Join this FREE online session for a deep dive into the Lit in Colour 2021 & 2024 research, look at other free resources, & discussion. #TeamEnglish #EduSky #Teaching #Resources
englishassociation.ac.uk/lit-in-colou...
Join this FREE online session for a deep dive into the Lit in Colour 2021 & 2024 research, look at other free resources, & discussion. #TeamEnglish #EduSky #Teaching #Resources
englishassociation.ac.uk/lit-in-colou...
Lit in Colour: research, engagement and impact to date (21 January 2025, 16:45 - 17:30) | The English Association
We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.
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January 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
#TeamEnglish #EduSky Free event online today 16.45-17.30 ! ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
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🙌 Giving teachers their Sunday nights back…
Great to see Aila, our AI lesson assistant, leading the news on how we can support teachers in managing their workload.
👀 Want to know more? Join the 1,000+ teachers signed up for our webinar this Wednesday: oaknat.uk/3PsNd8w
Great to see Aila, our AI lesson assistant, leading the news on how we can support teachers in managing their workload.
👀 Want to know more? Join the 1,000+ teachers signed up for our webinar this Wednesday: oaknat.uk/3PsNd8w
January 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
🙌 Giving teachers their Sunday nights back…
Great to see Aila, our AI lesson assistant, leading the news on how we can support teachers in managing their workload.
👀 Want to know more? Join the 1,000+ teachers signed up for our webinar this Wednesday: oaknat.uk/3PsNd8w
Great to see Aila, our AI lesson assistant, leading the news on how we can support teachers in managing their workload.
👀 Want to know more? Join the 1,000+ teachers signed up for our webinar this Wednesday: oaknat.uk/3PsNd8w
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So excited that these first @oaknational.bsky.social units have been released. Thanks for all the positive feedback so far. Primary coming v soon! Please use and adapt these to help you in your contexts! #TeamRE
January 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
So excited that these first @oaknational.bsky.social units have been released. Thanks for all the positive feedback so far. Primary coming v soon! Please use and adapt these to help you in your contexts! #TeamRE
Couldn’t agree with this more. Overly policing the canon of literature massively risks undermining the very nature of what literary history and development actually is.
If we'd taken the view that traditions = dead authors & there's a canon to police, we'd have said to Chaucer: 'Stop! Leave Ovid, Virgil, Cicero & Boethius alone. Don't write cheap popular fabliaux. Ignore Boccaccio. And for goodness sake stick to Latin.That's the language of literature not English.'
This is brilliant! Right up my street as a reader, writer and educator, and with such importance for thinking about literary study as engaging with a living tradition.
January 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Couldn’t agree with this more. Overly policing the canon of literature massively risks undermining the very nature of what literary history and development actually is.
I absolutely adore this play. The more I read it, the more poignant and powerful it becomes. So much better than An Inspector Calls too, and a much more significant part of the development of post war British drama.
January 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I absolutely adore this play. The more I read it, the more poignant and powerful it becomes. So much better than An Inspector Calls too, and a much more significant part of the development of post war British drama.
In my happy place 🤘🎸🤡🕺
December 20, 2024 at 11:07 PM
In my happy place 🤘🎸🤡🕺
As someone married to someone who did Latin to A-Level, I couldn’t agree with this more. The language advantage from understanding Latin is staggering.
Latin is important. Don’t make it the preserve of the elite
December 19, 2024 at 10:51 PM
As someone married to someone who did Latin to A-Level, I couldn’t agree with this more. The language advantage from understanding Latin is staggering.
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Thank you to Oak National Academy #geography lead Graeme Schofield for blogging about the GA/Oak partnership which has provided hundreds of geography lessons for KS1 & KS2 and currently working together to do similar for KS3.
Read more in link below
ga-blog.org/2024/12/18/g...
Read more in link below
ga-blog.org/2024/12/18/g...
GA and Oak partnership 2024 - The GA Blog
Graeme Schofield introduces the partnership between the GA and Oak National Academy and the free curriculum resources of over 230 lessons...
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December 18, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Thank you to Oak National Academy #geography lead Graeme Schofield for blogging about the GA/Oak partnership which has provided hundreds of geography lessons for KS1 & KS2 and currently working together to do similar for KS3.
Read more in link below
ga-blog.org/2024/12/18/g...
Read more in link below
ga-blog.org/2024/12/18/g...
Have you met the poet James Carter? He's been helping us with some really fun and exciting new poetry content @oaknational.bsky.social. If you haven't met him, you really should get to know him tinyurl.com/2uvzft7a
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December 13, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Have you met the poet James Carter? He's been helping us with some really fun and exciting new poetry content @oaknational.bsky.social. If you haven't met him, you really should get to know him tinyurl.com/2uvzft7a
I cannot wait to see this in a couple of weeks. More musicals should be based on impenetrable Russian novels
🎶 FIRST LISTEN! The cast of NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 sing ‘Prologue’ in rehearsals☄️
🎟️ Limited tickets will be released 5 December at midday. Donmar Members get priority booking
Music, Lyrics, Book & Orchestrations by Dave Malloy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhq-...
🎟️ Limited tickets will be released 5 December at midday. Donmar Members get priority booking
Music, Lyrics, Book & Orchestrations by Dave Malloy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhq-...
The cast of NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 sing 'Prologue'
YouTube video by DonmarWarehouse
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December 9, 2024 at 6:31 PM
I cannot wait to see this in a couple of weeks. More musicals should be based on impenetrable Russian novels
I am really excited to be contributing to this in a couple of weeks. Will be sharing what we have learnt about large-scale English curriculum design @oaknational.bsky.social
🗓️ Community Forum 🗓️
Grab your ticket for the next community forum for trust leaders with @s-donarski.bsky.social. This session is entitled 'Large-Scale Curriculum Design: When, how and why?'.
To book: https://buff.ly/47PpGH2
Slides from Session 1: https://buff.ly/41kfkOi
#LitdriveCPD
Grab your ticket for the next community forum for trust leaders with @s-donarski.bsky.social. This session is entitled 'Large-Scale Curriculum Design: When, how and why?'.
To book: https://buff.ly/47PpGH2
Slides from Session 1: https://buff.ly/41kfkOi
#LitdriveCPD
December 6, 2024 at 1:38 PM
I am really excited to be contributing to this in a couple of weeks. Will be sharing what we have learnt about large-scale English curriculum design @oaknational.bsky.social
I couldn't be prouder to play a very small part in all of this. The impact on wellbeing and workload in particular are phenomenal. Amazing 💪
Hi BlueSky 👋
I've popped on as we released our 5th independent @oaknational.bsky.social evaluation yesterday 📈
@ImpactEd_Group looked at how our curriculum models and resources are being used and the impact they’re having on teachers’ workload and curriculum expertise.
A quick summary below... 🧵
I've popped on as we released our 5th independent @oaknational.bsky.social evaluation yesterday 📈
@ImpactEd_Group looked at how our curriculum models and resources are being used and the impact they’re having on teachers’ workload and curriculum expertise.
A quick summary below... 🧵
December 6, 2024 at 1:26 PM
I couldn't be prouder to play a very small part in all of this. The impact on wellbeing and workload in particular are phenomenal. Amazing 💪