Watching you tube every day at school

A year 1 teacher will be anything but lazy!

Please tell me this is satire and not a serious post. I despair.

Indeed, but I was refuting your initial comment that Tom and Jerry "holds no educational content".

In the case of the OP, their DC could be watching something equally as beneficial, but only remembering that it was on YouTube. The OP needs to get all the facts before talking to the teacher. As for the nonsense from @HFJ ; my Head would laugh you out of the building, because he trusts my professional judgement.

We use you tube a lot as it is linked to the online curriculum we subscribe to. I have to be authenticated before I can use it and that has to be redone after an hour has passed so if I use it first thing in the morning and I want to reuse it at the end of the day I would need to re authenticate. The action songs may Jack Hartman who is fab although I do get my children to use their posh maths voices when saying the numbers.

Numberblocks was our choice during snack time but my current class are too old for them. I miss joining in with the children singing the intro and calling out answers!

I'm sure if the teacher came across any inappropriate content she wouldn't be using it.

That’s great @Malbecfan but I doubt that’s what’s happening with the 5 and 6 yr olds that the OP mentioned.

@BlueBlahBlah I used 2 Tom and Jerry cartoons today in my year 8 lesson on film music. The music is such an inherent part of why the cartoons are so successful. In one, we discussed the use of different instruments to represent the characters and particular moods. Then we saw and heard examples of Mickey-mousing. We noted the use of a whole-tone scale to represent an ascent to "heaven" then the discords of "hell". All of these are key terms in the GCSE specification, so your assertion that Tom and Jerry "holds no educational value" is bollocks.

Before every lesson, I make sure there are no adverts before or during the clips, so kids are not subject to inappropriate content.

At A level, to be able to hear a symphony and have the full score on screen is an absolute Godsend. We cannot afford to buy scores for each piece for every student, so YouTube is just brilliant.

Some people need to trust that teachers do actually know what they are doing and perhaps not believe every word that comes out of their DC's mouth.

What a load of rubbish!

sure, they have the right to ask... and the maths policy, and the reading book policy, and the playground policy, and if the children are sufficiently safeguarded with all those policies, go ahead, ask about as many policies as you want. You tube isn't any more "dangerous" than reading books - I found "where the wind blows" on my son's school bookshelf when he was about 6

Parent still has a right to ask what the school policy is on use of youtube in school, whether policies are being followed and whether children sufficiently safeguarded.

(why not read a class book to the children?)

But we do that to! it isn't either/or you know - and plenty of learning is far better done visually.

school filters are pretty robust. if the filter isn't robust enough, that is a separate issue, not a you-tube issue

You need to go to the HT.

Safeguarding guidelines require schools, LAs and trusts to look carefully at their IT infrastructure. If a teacher is using youtube in the classroom, there is a risk pupils exposed to inappropriate adverts or, worse, some content doctored to have distressing images spliced into the middle of the programme.

You need to share your concern that the choice of content has low value (why not read a class book to the children?) and also that you’d like to know what filtering and monitoring mechanisms the school has in place.

Never feel you can’t got to a HT. They appreciate a sensible parent’s insight.

Op I'd assume its 10min at the end of the day before hometime, after she's got her class tidied up for the day, kids are tired by then.

Seriously its a few minutes that the kids will love and remember.

As a child I remember playing heads down thumbs up in that last few minutes before the bell.
I also had an amazing teacher who'd read a book, with huge enthusiasm 😀 a chapter or two each day. The best teacher ever.

I use loads of movement break songs/ dances, counting songs, Geraldine Giraffe for Phonics. The only time it's something silly/ non educational is either wet play or the very end of the day when I have to have 1:1 conversations and fill out home-school journals.

I think with little ones especially, its a long day, their brains can't be constantly on the go and they need a little 10 minute or so "time out"

I am sure no teacher is using YouTube constantly!

It's probably just timers

I work in a school and we use YouTube or similar daily for various reasons ...

• watching newsround
• watching a story being read
• watching a video clip to support learning
• watching a cartoon/number blocks while they drink their milk/eat fruit
• doing yoga
• doing a movement break to an action song
• calming music/images while writing
• tidy up music/video
• days of the week video
• learning a maths concept

These are just a few examples. All completely legitimate and rarely for more than a few minutes.

For some children, it's the bit of their day they remember so they mention it at home. I wouldn't think too deeply about it. Or assume that the teachers are being lazy.

Well I mean, I did grow up in this country but YouTube wasn’t around when today’s parents were kids. But now is available the world over, probably in your home country too. So that’s not really part of it.

I was shocked when I learnt how much the school relies on YouTube too. We went into lockdown halfway through my eldest’s reception year, so a lot of homeschool came along with a YouTube video of course, but he already knew loads of songs and dances from watching YouTube at school. I was shocked! But a lot of what our school seems to use from YouTube is pretty good/informative.

It’s when they watch things like Octonauts, Bluey, Disney that I question it more!

That’s great IF THERE IS EDUCATIONAL VALUE, but the OP is implying that Pink Panther and Tom & Jerry are being watched daily. If that is the case than I personally feel that’s a bit of a cop out.
@alloweraoway if you’re choosing specific YouTube videos and creating resources to go alongside that, of course that’s not lazy. But IF a teacher is just sticking cartoons on for the class every day, I wouldn’t be happy with that.

It is not lazy. I spend a long time going through you tube to find the most appropriate videos for my class, and then designing resources, questions, etc to go alongside it You tube is an excellent teaching resource.

That’s quite a specific jump to make! 😄

Lazy?! Two adults trying to reunite 30 children, two with SEN, with their (unlabelled) jumpers and (also unlabelled) water bottles, put myriad bump notes and party invites into bags, change a nappy, check who is in after school club etc etc. If that’s lazy then I’d hate to be busy.

I'd disagree that there is no educational value to Tom and Jerry and pink panther, it's teaching children to recognise situations and facial expression without word, you'd be surprised if you asked them how many children wouldn't pick up on how Tom for example was feeling by looking at his face. But again it would depend on the context of it being used.

We use YouTube usually for movement breaks, or to find song's for the child, we sometimes put something on for them during fruit and snack. Or if it's a wet break time play. Some children actually really need 10 minutes down time, and it mixes it up from a story which some struggle to engage in. But would depend on how long its put on for.