Is it standard practice for reception children to watch TV in class

[Aladdinsmagiccarpet]

Just that really. Every now and again dc comes home and says they've been watching TV in class. It's a two form entry , so sometimes both classes will watch something together and sometimes they'll just watch stuff in their respective classes. The other day dc was saying they watched Smeds and Smoos, and then something else together with the other class and then came back to their own class and watched three episodes of Peter Rabbit 🤔 I was quite astonished to hear that tbh. Surely they should be doing their early learning curriculum ? Is this normal practice now for Reception students?

Hilarious.

Please do show me this class of 4 year olds, who will sit and engage in some lively debate for an entire wet lunchtime 🙄

I'm guessing you're not a eyfs or ks1 teacher?

Might not have been TV as such ..but something on the interactive whiteboard.
Some tv is used...educationally or for a ten mins calm time with the younger years seriously its fine ...I'm a teacher of over 30 years
My year four class watched the film version of the book we'd read in English this term...end of term treat !

My children’s teachers are phenomenal. My kids love school, love their teachers, are developing loads, my autistic son is well supported - I completely trust that any tv they’re watching is linked to what they’re learning, because of wet play, or the odd treat at the end of term. I honestly cannot get worked up about this!!

Unfortunately not many sit and chat nicely 😆. I can be on my own with 2 classes including dc that need 1:1 or have other behaviour issues or ASN during a wet break. Imagine the chaos 😅

I used to put something from CBeebies on after morning playtime while they ate their fruit. Generally something like Alphablocks, or a mini film about a festival, St Patrick's day, pancake day, Chinese New year or whatever. Sometimes a story like Old Jacks Boat, Rosie and Jim or Aunty Mabel with an educational angle. It gave me a chance to nip to the loo and grab a drink while the TA sat with them. When I had a child with SEN who was quite a handful I discovered she loved Baby Jake and would sit transfixed for 10 minutes. It gave us all a break especially her.

It was only for about 10 to 15 minutes to calm down after break.

Well, while l was not teaching that age group l always found it sad they were all staring up at a TV instead of having some interaction. I would be generally supervising on wet days.
I did teach that age group for years but it was long before TVs entered the classroom. They would usually have playdough or something which would mean some chatting while being occupied as well. I suppose a lot of children would watch quite a bit of TV at home so it's nice to see them doing something else in school.

I have news for you about educational TV shows....

My KS1 class do lots of chatting, without adult intervention they would happily chat all day long (or not so happily as extended periods of aimless chatting tend to descend into a chaotic mess of he said-she said tattling).

We use educational programming in school to supplement and support the curriculum and, yes, sometimes for entertainment purposes.

They don't stare up at it either, we wall mount that shit at the children's eye level.

Mine did 12 years ago. I did 40 years ago . The excitement of watching the dots disappear in a circle!

We had a TV on wheels in 1980 in our class room, so I don't think it's new thing!

I remember the TV on wheels from the 80's. We used to watch something with letters and some kind of little talking pencil...was he called Wordy?

We had a tv in the 70s, they would wheel it into the classroom and we would watch Words and Pictures and write the letter in the air.

I always find it amusing when someone says a tv show isn't educational, especially if that tv show in on Cbeebies. Even In The Night Garden is educational about different family set ups.

TV shows used in schools are brilliant, for older year groups we can show them science stuff that we couldn't possibly recreate in a classroom. They have times tables songs, learn French and they engage well with it. For lower years they usually watch something whilst eating their fruit. They are growing up in a technological world. We use that technology to supplement and support teaching. The interactive white boards in classrooms for teaching are amazing.

He was called Wordy. The programme was called Look and Read.

I think an odd few episodes of something age related is fine. They’re only little kids and tv is relaxing. A whole day of school is quite full on. It’s not as if they’re whacking out Happy Valley and sodding off down the pub and leaving them to it ….

Newsround is often watched in ks2 a couple of times a week. They may get a movie or show as an end of term treat. They also get tv during wet play time.
It’s nearly end of term and at the end of term staff and kids are often running on empty.

@Chemenger was it Words and Pictures, with Wordy? I loved that!! Especially the Dark Towers. Amazing show.
Our school used occasional TV for example Newsround. I wouldn’t get upset by 15 minutes a day in foundation.

This is interesting, we’re not in the Uk but no my child has never watched tv at school (she is only in her second year) and they don’t have any tech at all for her age group, maybe this is because it’s a small village school though I don’t know. Honestly it never crossed my mind they would put tv on at that age! I remember the occasional pre holiday tv time at school but from a bit older.

Extremely normal as they wait to be called for lunch, have wet play or to keep them quiet as row by row got their coats and water bottles

I used cbeebies every day as a teacher of KS1 for 5-10 mins

Crafts or colouring in this extremely short time create mess that the teacher needs to clean up once the kids have gone to lunch or home, and a ‘chat’ as a secondary school teacher upthread suggested creates sensory overload for many children.

I think I've got two programmes muddled together. Words and Pictures was the one with the pencil that lit up and did the writing. Look and read had Wordy in I think from the you tube rabbit hole I've just been on. Found a video of a song called Geordie Racer which seems familiar too.

I'm a teacher. At my school we tend to put educational shows like number blocks on at home time while we're getting everything together or during a wet play. We sometimes watch something on the last day of term.

@WonderingWanda quire right. Yes Geordie racer was one too. And Badger Girl.

Geordue Racer was the one about racing pigeons. A friend of mine ended up buying her son a pigeon and a clock as a result of that programme.

My DC watch numberblocks or alpha blocks daily when they are eating their fruit and drinking their milk.

They spend all the rest of the time bloody interacting! Do you not ever just need down time when nobodies taking at you or expect you to do stuff and respond appropriately and learn things??
Small kids don’t really chat to each other very effectively for any significant length of time.
Do you have your own children? Do they watch TV when it’s rainy? Have you had much experience of entertaining/containing 30 5 year olds for hours when they can go outside all day?

I had no idea that there were earlier versions of the Wizard of Oz - I’ve had a look now. That’s really interesting!