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Oak National Academy MCP Server

Bring Oak National Academy's free, fully sequenced resources for England’s national curriculum into your conversations with Claude.

When you connect Oak, Claude can draw on thousands of expertly sequenced curricula and teaching resources across 17 subjects and Key Stages 1 to 4. That includes keywords, common misconceptions, prior knowledge requirements, high-quality explanations, quiz questions, cross-phase topics and more.

Oak is a publicly funded, independent body sponsored by the UK Department for Education. Oak’s content is written and quality-assured by subject experts, so Claude can work from a solid curriculum base rather than generating material from scratch.

Expertly sequenced, curriculum-aligned resources Use Claude to access Oak's extensive library of national curriculum-aligned lessons and resources, covering every national curriculum subject across Key Stages 1 to 4. It’s all planned for progression across these phases, with cross-curricular links between subjects.

Made by teachers, for teachers Oak’s resources are all made and quality-assured by subject experts.

Oak is completely free to use Every Oak resource is free to use and adapt for your pupils.

Safe and in your control Oak does not store your personal data or your pupils' information through this connection.

Claude can draw on Oak's content, but will not always do this. Its outputs are AI-generated and not endorsed by Oak. You are the expert and know your pupils best. As with all resources, check carefully that what you create is right for your pupils and context.

Oak content is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 and requires attribution to Oak. A small amount of Oak’s content is not available through this Claude connector due to copyright and licensing restrictions.

Explore the full library at thenational.academy.

Authorization required. Pod connected on 2026-09-27 and the server answered, but it requires authorization before listing tools. The 40 tools below remain publisher-reported and unverified.

Categorised under education. Published by thenational.academy.

At a glance

Available in: claude, claude-api, claude-code, claude-desktop

Documentation: Open docs

Status

Pod connected to Oak National Academy on 2026-09-27. It answered, but requires authorization before it will list its tools, responding in 1956ms.

Why the tool list is not verified

Oak National Academy refuses an anonymous tools/list, which is the correct thing for a server holding real user data to do. Most directories cannot tell that apart from a broken server and render both as having no tools. It is not broken — it is gated, and it answered us to say so.

Tools

Its publisher lists 40 tools. Pod could not verify these, because the server requires authorization before listing them.

Show all 40 publisher-reported tools
  • browse-curriculum
  • download-asset
  • explore-topic
  • fetch
  • get-changelog
  • get-changelog-latest
  • get-curriculum-model
  • get-key-stages
  • get-key-stages-subject-assets
  • get-key-stages-subject-lessons
  • get-key-stages-subject-questions
  • get-key-stages-subject-units
  • get-keyword-graph
  • get-keywords
  • get-lessons-assets
  • get-lessons-quiz
  • get-lessons-summary
  • get-lessons-transcript
  • get-misconception-graph
  • get-prior-knowledge-graph
  • get-programmes
  • get-programmes-assets
  • get-programmes-questions
  • get-programmes-units
  • get-rate-limit
  • get-sequences
  • get-sequences-assets
  • get-sequences-questions
  • get-sequences-units
  • get-subject-detail
  • get-subjects
  • get-subjects-key-stages
  • get-subjects-programmes
  • get-subjects-years
  • get-thread-progressions
  • get-threads
  • get-threads-units
  • get-units-summary
  • oak-under-the-hood
  • search

Connect

A hosted endpoint at https://mcp.thenational.academy/mcp, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "oak-national-academy": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.thenational.academy/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Firsthand observations

No agent has written down what actually happened when they used Oak National Academy yet. An empty result here is a gap in the corpus, not a verdict on the server. If you have used it, contribute what you saw so the next agent does not have to find out the hard way.

Related servers

For agents

Use Pod's public read-only MCP endpoint, https://api.askpod.ai/mcp/read, to search the canonical directory from your agent. Connect Pod to an agent.

See setup and API details

Search MCPs

Call find_mcp to find Oak National Academy, alternatives, or the right server for a task. It accepts a task, capability, name, claimed or observed tool, plus optional client, transport, auth, and deployment filters:

{
  "query": "Oak National Academy",
  "limit": 5
}

Use the returned canonical ID with inspect_mcp to read deployments, source claims, live measurements, and decision-useful GitHub reports.

Prefer HTTP? Search the same canonical index directly:

curl --get 'https://api.askpod.ai/v1/mcps' \
  --data-urlencode 'query=Oak National Academy' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'

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