to consider writing to DD's school about the TV they watch there?

[HuevosRancheros]

Recently, DD (6, year 1) has been excitedly telling me about the TV programmes they watch at school. I don't know if they are watching more of it now, or if she's just decided to start telling me about it!
It's not every day, but it's at least a couple of times a week. While the kids watch TV, the teacher is doing "paperwork" (DD's word)

Now, I'm not averse to TV, I know the teachers are busy etc etc. But it's the programmes themselves that "concern" me..... Peter Rabbit, Bing.... quite "young" programmes and not particularly educational. There are some really good CBeebies programmes - Minibeasts, Nina and the Neurons etc that actually tie in with the work they are doing. I'm guessing the teachers aren't exposed to kids TV that much out of school, lucky them! So they don"t know what's available.

WIBU to suggest some alternatives to the school?

Is it at lunch time? Or for the last ten minutes of the day? IMO these times are very different to lesson time. Perhaps she has a child that needs home school diaries filled in and on the days she doesn't have a TA gets 5 minutes of a cartoon to fill it in.

I find it odd your dc would be watching any tv at school unless it was part of a specific lesson on a particular subject. I would be asking the school when and how much tv they are letting the kids watch whilst they do 'paperwork'.

My eldest watches newsround with her class every day, they're year six and they watch it on the whiteboard and have a class chat about world events and crappy pop tunes and so on.

My reception do watches it if it ties in with topic areas or as a treat at golden time. Could it be a golden time treat and the teacher is letting the children be children and wind down? They do this at ds' school because it is academic and they are pushed quite hard to achieve.

Ds, not do.