to not expect DD1 to be watching Zingzillas and Octonauts at school?

[Flubba]

DD1 has just started doing full days in YR (all of four days now) - at least twice already she's said they've watched the fecking Zingzillas and Octonauts during the school day. Is this normal for YR? I'm more than happy for her to play, draw, have stories read to etc, but watching telly??

(and not least because I can't help thinking of the MNer whose kid said "do you want to see my Octohatch?" while mooning her :o :o )

Don't know if this helps but I teach y3 and we are watching scooby doo. The Literacy topic is adventure and mystery stories so we are looking at the characters and plots in order to write our own adventure stories using the charcters. (It also includes lots of discussion, role play and descriptive writing, we're not just watching back to back scooby doo episodes!) The children are loving it and spend ages at break time play acting scooby doo.

I know your DC is younger but could it be something simiar?

Gusto my old school used to have 'Golden time' for part of friday pm as reward for working hard all week. The children got to choose what they wanted to do and often it was watch a film.

School TV was brilliant. It was the most bizarre programmes ever but I remember everyone paying attention because it was quite cool being allowed to watch tv at school.
I possibly even learnt a bit from it!

BendyBob - ime every school I have been in or know of read a lot of stories to children, one or two every day.

I remember watching Tv at school. We would watch the series with Magic e in it, and there was always so mystery type story going on between it all.

Look and Read :D

DD's year 2 teacher showed them some of these a little while back. Took me right back to school! Even after all this time the children still enjoyed it.

I'd be pissed off with this. If they watch TV in school, what are they meant to spend their time at home doing? DD isn't school age yet, but by YR I expect her to have watched all of the Octonauts and ZingZillas episodes many times over.

We used to watch Wimbledon in our maths lessons (obviously only when it was on, not prerecorded matches all through the year).

Don't they read stories anymore to children? Yes they still read the children stories every day.

I'd be pissed off with this. If they watch TV in school, what are they meant to spend their time at home doing?
Playing?

You are joking, breatheslowly? Why do you plan to put your child in front of the same old TV shows over and over again? Try the park! Or talking, dancing, dressing up, role playing, reading, baking, painting...

breatheslowly is taking the piss I think. (I hope!) :)

I am joking to a certain extent. DD is a very active girl who needs a bit of time to chill out and I think watching TV is fine for that, particularly if she is tired, but not interested in having a nap. I have noticed that the episodes of most Cbeebies shows come round again - but in all honesty I am more likely to be watching that DD - she potters about while the TV is on. She likes the music and dances to it, so I am happy for it to be on in the background waiting for some music to dance along to. It isn't on all the time by any means. I certainly anticipate her watching it after school when she is school age. Again not from home time until bedtime, but just for a bit to unwind. She spends quite a bit of time in nursery and I would be very unhappy if that time was spent watching TV.

But what I really mean is that recreational TV viewing is a home only activity and certainly not for school except in exceptional circumstances.

Our Reception class watches Octonauts too. I like it tho as it teaches about marine biology. Sound the octo-alert!! They sometimes have it after lunch when they have their drinks of water, to calm down after outside play and to get into the frame of mind for the afternoon's learning. Last thing in the day, they usuaully have a story.

Mudandglitter

I'm a teacher and we used to have a children's educational programme every week with follow-up activites/worksheets/language work.

I used to love "Through the Dragon's Eye" and so did my class! "Look bravely through the Dragon's eye.... and sigh.... (or was it cry?? not sure!) And when the dragon winked at you from the wall!!

There were (still are??) some excellent BBC children's programmes with very good storylines and excellent teaching points. That was in the days before IWB's , and all teachers really had was a blackboard and some coloured chalk to highlight a spelling rule, for example, as opposed to some really good moving/flashing etc tv graphics.

I also loved a Maths programme called Megamaths, I uesd to set my video at home to tape it. There was a great episode once about dividing and remainders, sung by a character called Mr Remainder, in the style of Alvin Stardust. It was absolutely brilliant and my class and I watched it over and over, singing along. (must look on YouTube!) They actually grasped division and remainders very quickly and easily!

Oh, those halcyon days!

piedwagtail that rings a bell she did say something about tv while they had their milk as well

Why do you plan to put your child in front of the same old TV shows over and over again?

I watched a HELL of a lot of tv as a kid but also did a lot of other things as well. It doesn't seem to have done me much harm except that my brain is filled with an encyclopaedic knowledge of 80s television :)

We watched Look and Read, Watch and How We Used to Live at school among other things. I don't see a problem frankly.

DM thinks I learnt more from Sesame Street than I did from primary school.

When my DS (5yo) broke up for Xmas we went to get him some DVDs - he told me he'd seen ALL of them at school. I was horrified - I had no idea that he was spending hours parked in front of their sodding tv. They'd been taken to the cinema twice during term too.

I don't have a problem at all with children watching tv, movies or playing computer games. I do have a problem with them doing it at school when there is limited/zero educational content.

Teachers getting a bashing again. Lazy? I am a part time teacher, I work two and a half days. Just for the record I worked eight hours on planning over the weekend, start my working day at ten past eight and was in a staff meeting until ten to six tonight. We work very hard. Watching tv for ten minutes won't harm your child. Her teacher wont have been sat there doing nothing and I am sure your daughter will have had a very busy working day with lots of interesting work and objectives.

Teachers getting a bashing again. Lazy? I am a part time teacher, I work two and a half days. Just for the record I worked eight hours on planning over the weekend, start my working day at ten past eight and was in a staff meeting until ten to six tonight. We work very hard. Watching tv for ten minutes won't harm your child. Her teacher wont have been sat there doing nothing and I am sure your daughter will have had a very busy working day with lots of interesting work and objectives.

are you sure it was not in Golden time, or a treat foor good behaviour, or to keep the children occupied whilst the teacher read with individual children/changed someones knickers/attended to first aid?

I wouldn't be keen on my kids watching tv at school unless it had a very clear link to learning.

When I was at school we only ever watched tv programmes made especially for schools by the bbc. And tbh children generally then watched a lot less tv than kids now. There were no dvds or even videos then and kids programmes were limited to particular days and times.

cheese I'm a teacher myself , so I'm certainly not giving them a bashing! But I do know there are lazy teachers and hard working teachers. IMO, sticking the box on for 25 mins is on the lazier end of the scale.

As I said, I'm not that fussed about academic learning etc at this stage in her life, but I'd be happier if the time was spent being read a story, or drawing or something else 'calming' if that was what was needed. I think using CBeebies as part of the teaching day is a bit wrong.

No blackeyedsusan I'm not sure at all of the circumstances - DD has not been forthcoming with details though I have tried! :o There are at least two TAs too though, so I imagine it's not a dealing with others situation.

Flubba mine has said at milk time and going home time, which sounds similar to yours. They have watched justin's house which, while very entertaining for a 4yo, doesn't have much in the way of highbrow content as far as I can see. It's mainly about putting custard pies in people's faces

Like flubba I'm surprised more than anything. I'm not averse to a bit of telly but I guess I just didn't expect them to be watching it at school. They never watched telly at nursery and the day there was longer and of course they were younger. So I guess I'm just used to that.

I remember getting TV at school. CH4 used to have mornings dedicated to school TV. I loved Look and Read. I remember Tufty at nursery as well. The shows on CBeebies can be educational. Something Special did wonders for my son.