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Overview
News Bites and News Blast
Home access
Exam board link-up
Learning resources
Video clip support
Teacher resources
Weekly updates
Taking clips out

Learn more: Overview

Clipbank is a unique learning service, blending thousands of educational video clips and other learning resources designed specifically to support teachers and students.  

Using Clipbank, add meaning to lessons, promote better understanding of concepts, and encourage involvement in discussion. The service provides the perfect way to integrate ICT and add value across your whole school.

Learn more: News Bites and News Blast

News Bites and News Blast are presenter-led news bulletins that feature curriculum relevant reports. Designed to appeal to students, they promote higher-level thinking skills across all subject areas. Perfect for form tutor time and plasma screens throughout your school.

News Bites is a weekly report that explores two of the week's popular news stories in an age-appropriate way and integrated into subject areas. The daily News Blast bulletin, delivered each morning, is a 60-second run down of the day's headlines.

Learn more: Home access

Free teacher and student home access is included with Clipbank.

Teachers and students can access the full Clipbank service, which includes Flash video, providing a faster home Clipbank experience.

Plan at home and encourage students to take Clipbank home to use as a trustworthy revision and homework resource. 

Learn more: Exam board link-up

Using an intuitive menu-based navigation, you can now quickly access and identify relevant resources for English and Maths, fully mapped to the exam board specifications. This tool enables secondary school teachers to integrate visual elements into lessons that tie back to exam objectives. 

Future updates to Clipbank will provide exam board links within other subjects such as Business, Geography and Science.


Learn more: Learning resources

A suite of complementary tools, multi-media activities, web links, worksheets, lesson plans and student-led learning paths reinforce learning by providing additional stimulus. 

Learn more: Video clip support

Each clip is accompanied by context, transcript, vocabulary, translation and links to other related clips - all further areas to investigate and explore.

These tools help extend the learning of gifted and talented students and allow others to set their own pace.

 

Learn more: Teacher resources

Learn how to use the service and integrate it into planning and lessons.

You’ll also find professional development opportunities, exam board linkage and curriculum guidance in areas like PLTS and cross-curricular dimensions.

Learn more: Weekly updates

Weekly subject updates are delivered every Friday during term time - two subjects per week, plus additional resources including two topical news stories and lesson plans. 

This growing resource continues to provide new resources to use in your lessons, form time, assemblies and plenary sessions.

Learn more: Taking clips out

You can easily take clips and text out of Clipbank and put them into software like Word, PowerPoint, Movie Maker and even in your learning platform or VLE. 

This clever functionality encourages the creative use of Clipbank for both teachers and students, from school or at home.