What are video and audio clips?

Find out which subjects use video and audio clips and why

What are video and audio clips
Using video and audio clips
Subjects that have video and/or audio clips

What are video and audio clips

You can use our video and audio clips to enhance explanations and create a richer learning experience in your classroom. Whether you're demonstrating a complex technique in art and design, modelling practical food skills and techniques in cooking and nutrition, or immersing pupils in a language, discover how to make the most of these resources.

We've given more detail about each subject where they are used later on in this help article.

You can use these to help your own understanding and play them in class when you are delivering a lesson.

We provide you audio clips in music lessons in a different way. See the later heading Music for more information

Using video and audio clips

The navigation panel on the left side of a lesson page showing where video and audio clips are located

When you go to a lesson page, if audio and/or video clips are available, you can find these easily by looking at the navigation menu on the left of the page.

Video and audio clips might have different names in some subjects. For example, look out for 'demonstration videos' in PE.

The play symbol which is a white triangle on a black background. This can also be a black triangle on a white or with no background. It is selected to start playing an audio or video clip

When you select a video or audio clip to play, you'll be taken to a new page. You can then press the play symbol to start your video or audio clip.

Subjects that have video and/or audio clips

Art and design

You can use the demonstration videos and GIFs in your art and design lessons to:

Enrich the delivery of explanations and practical tasks by visually showcasing techniques in action.
Offer a clear, visual model of processes, such as blending, layering, or constructing forms.
Consolidate learning and provide quick accessible demonstrations of techniques and approaches.

We've been careful to only include demonstration videos and GIFs where we feel they can have the most impact: supporting you in your teaching and encouraging pupil exploration of materials and techniques, without overwhelming lesson content.

Computing

Video demonstrations are included in some computing lessons to:

Help explain the thought processes required when creating a solution to a problem.
Provide you with examples of effective modelling of tasks.
Give pupils support in achieving the basic requirements of practice tasks.

Cooking and nutrition

In cooking and nutrition, you can use the demonstration videos to model peer-to-peer practical food skills and techniques to help enrich the delivery of explanations and showcase best practices.

For example, use a demonstration video to show your pupils how to use a food processor safely or how to safely cut foods in half, quarters, or chunks using the bridge hold technique.

Design and technology

In design and technology, you can use the demonstration videos to support explanations.

For example, how to simulate circuits in computer-aided design or add details like shading, texture, and depth when using the render technique to communicate design ideas.

Languages and MFL

In languages, audio clips of native speakers are used throughout. You may find these to be helpful models for you and your pupils if you’re not a native speaker or a specialist in the subject. Even if you are a native speaker, it can be useful for your pupils to hear other native speaker voices. A transcript is also provided should you want to use your own voice.

If you're teaching primary languages, you can use audio clips on the following ways:

Introduce new sound-spelling correspondences and example words which demonstrate them.
As stimulus materials for checks for understanding and listening practice.
To read aloud tasks to practice phonics.
To present new vocabulary.
To model and feedback on speaking tasks.
As dialogues between multiple characters.
To read aloud extended texts, poems or songs.
To narrate slides about characters to set the scene.

For secondary you can use them in the following ways:

As stimulus materials for checks for understanding and listening practice.
To read aloud extended texts, poems or songs.

Music

Through the audio clips, pupils can hear different types of music, instruments and beats to aid learning. They're embedded within the slide decks so you can play these as you work through the lesson with your class.

In most lessons, among the slide decks, you will also find modelling videos which you can use to share a clear picture of practical, expressive and creative outcomes. This can help to support pupil understanding and enrich the delivery of your explanations. They can also be used to help you with assessment setting and practice tasks.

Physical Education (PE)

The demonstration videos you'll find amongst our PE lesson resources can be used in a number of ways:

To enrich the delivery of your explanations and practice tasks.
To give pupils a high-quality model and showcase successful learning.
As a guide of how to set up equipment for practice tasks.
To quickly get to grips with how a game or activity should be run.

We've kept the clips short to enable you to quickly pinpoint specific activities or techniques that could be useful to you in your lesson planning.

Religious education (RE)

Across lessons in our RE curriculum we've included video case studies of people from different religious and non-religious worldviews. You can use them in your lessons to allow your pupils to hear how a person's worldview affects their life. For example, hearing from someone with a Muslim worldview about the affect that Hajj had on them.

Alongside this, you may also want to invite in local people from different worldviews to talk about their experiences in your lessons. Pupils could then compare what is similar and different.