What’s New in February 2026: Classroom Videos and Resources

February’s new content on ClickView brings a rich mix of beautiful animations, original productions, international films, and curriculum‑aligned resources to support classrooms across Australia and New Zealand.

Whether you’re planning lessons around special days, building historical literacy, or looking for engaging ways to support student wellbeing and creativity, read on to see how February’s additions offer flexible, classroom‑ready content to meet a wide range of teaching needs.

What’s new?

This month, we have added 382 new videos to ClickView in Australia and 372 new videos for New Zealand. Learn all about this month’s featured releases below.

Spotlight on New Original Content

February’s new releases support primary teachers with beautiful new animations to teach students about special days in the calendar, produced by the ClickView team.

Secondary History teachers will benefit from a thoughtful and pedagogically strong approach to introducing historical literacy and critical thinking. We have also further enhanced our Science offering for Years 7 and 8 with new, tightly aligned original videos about reproduction.

Primary Highlights

• Shrove Tuesday (Australia) (New Zealand)

Discover the story of Shrove Tuesday: why it’s also known as Pancake Day and how people celebrate the beginning of Lent in this new addition to our popular Miniclips: Global Celebrations and Commemorations series.

• Holi (Australia) (New Zealand)

Explore the myths and legends of Holi and how people celebrate the Hindu Festival of Colours in this stunning new video that’s also new to the Miniclips: Global Celebrations and Commemorations series.

Secondary Highlights

• Contesting History (Australia) (New Zealand)

How can we ensure the accuracy of history in the era of fake news? Explore historical interpretations and perspectives, how to navigate bias in sources and what to know about AI and your research.

• Reproducing (Australia) (New Zealand)

Learn about the systems of organs that humans and other multicellular organisms, like plants, need to reproduce.

Producer Comment

Edwina Baden-Powell, Director of Productions

New and Featured Content Partners

From award‑winning international films to timeless philosophy and immersive storybook readings, these partners offer rich, curriculum‑ready content for students across Australia and New Zealand.

The Reading Corner (New Content Partner)
We’re excited to bring schools access to a new collection of videos from The Reading Corner. Their stories are read-aloud videos of children’s books for primary school-aged children, each brought to life with beautiful illustrations and music to engage young listeners. These stories help build vocabulary and foster a love of reading by making books appealing and accessible to students. Take a look at their a couple of their series – Mars Bound (Australia) (New Zealand) and Peter Pan (Australia) (New Zealand).

Madman Entertainment
Madman Entertainment distributes the best films from around the world in Australia and New Zealand. New titles available on ClickView from Madman Entertainment include Flow (Australia)(New Zealand), The Zone of Interest (Australia) (New Zealand), and Pinocchio (Australia) (New Zealand).

The School of Life
The School of Life blends ideas from psychology, philosophy, art, culture, and psychotherapy to offer a unique approach to education, blending relatable life topics with academic knowledge. Some of their films on classical philosophy are particularly useful for schools, including Plato (Australia) (New Zealand), Immanuel Kant (Australia) (New Zealand), and Confucius (Australia) (New Zealand).

Movies + TV Highlights

February’s new Movies + TV additions bring a powerful mix of storytelling, from a flood-surviving cat learning cooperation in Flow and a youth-led climate road trip in Future Council, to deeply moving human stories of grief, resilience, and justice in Tinā and Pike River. Rounding out the collection, Shaun Tan’s Tales from Outer Suburbia adds a touch of wonder with imaginative, otherworldly tales about family and belonging.

• Flow (Australia) (New Zealand)

Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, it finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences.

• Future Council (Australia) (New Zealand)

Damon Gameau takes eight kids on the ultimate school excursion: a road trip across Europe to seek solutions to the climate crisis.

• Tinā (Australia) (New Zealand)

A woman, grieving her daughter’s death in the Christchurch quakes, becomes a substitute teacher at an elite school.

• Shaun Tan’s Tales from Outer Suburbia (Australia only)

In Shaun Tan’s evocative world, a family faces strange encounters and extraordinary experiences while trying to stick together.

• Pike River (New Zealand only)

In the aftermath of an explosion that rocked the Pike River Mine and took 29 lives, two women step up to fight for accountability.

Curation and Special Events

Our curation team has been hard at work developing and updating timely topic pages designed to help teachers quickly find meaningful, classroom-ready content exactly when it’s needed.

Primary Topics

• Artemis II
• Auslan
• Fairy Tales

Secondary Topics

• Connection to Country
• My Brilliant Career
• The Age of Innocence

March Special Events Topics in Australia

Mark your calendars for these upcoming special days and explore related resources.

• Lent (18th February – 2nd April)
• Ramadan (18th February – 20th March)
• Clean Up Australia Day (1st March)
• World Compliment Day (1st March)
• Dr Seuss’s Birthday (2nd March)
• Holi (4th March)
• International Women’s Day (8th March)
• International Day of Mathematics (14th March)
• Harmony Day (21st March)
• St Patrick’s Day (17th March)
• International Day of Happiness (20th March)
• World Poetry Day (21st March)
• World Water Day (22nd March)
• International Day of Zero Waste (30th March)

Browse the full calendar for more special events here.

Featured Resource: Writing Prompts

Spark creativity and develop students’ literacy with the new Writing Prompts resource. This two-page stimulus turns a video into a rich writing experience for students, with prompts increasing in difficulty based on Bloom’s Taxonomy.

• Four text types included:
  • Narrative
  • Informative
  • Opinion
  • Persuasive
• Why use it?
  • Supports differentiation and literacy development
  • Builds creativity, critical thinking, and communication skills
  • Easy to implement, no prep required!
  • Use after watching a video

Try it with the video The Industrial Revolution from the History Kids series.

• Video (Australia) (New Zealand)
• Series (Australia) (New Zealand)

Ready to explore?

There’s plenty to discover in February’s latest content release. From vibrant new animations and original series to award‑winning films and curated topic pages, ClickView continues to support meaningful learning across all year levels.

We hope that February’s new releases can help bring learning to life in your classroom.