Ceebeebies at school?

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I'm interested to know opinions on this.
I'm pretty relaxed about screen time. I wish my child had less of it around the house but well, it happens. I was speaking to a few mums about parents evening. A few mentioned to the teacher that they were disappointed that the children (year one) watched ceebeebies during class time. There was back peddling of "they don't that much" but chatting to my child "hey what did you watch at school today?" So far it was 3 days last week and 2 this week. One day it was bing?!? At 6 years old? Thoughts?

Stated very clearly! Autocorrect on iPhones holds no prisoners!!

CBeebies rocks !! Well except for Bing that rabbit needs some anti depressants !. Seriously it's not going to mentally scar them a little tv time. 20 plus kids every day to deal with your damn right i would be switching that box on for half an our lol 😂

Hour even lol

I can understand using TV as a resource but Bing, for 6 year olds? Surely there is something better? I'd be annoyed if that was regular. Surely all these occasions can't be wet play though. It's not really a thing at my daughters school.. They go out rain or shine unless it's actually unsafe to do so. I don't think they have had a single day inside this school year bar one day when there were 60mph winds.

That feeling when the teacher wheeled the big TV trolley through the door... there's never been anything to top it. Anything.

Oh but there has, being asked to and get the big TV I remember pushing it back like Mrs Doyle from Father Ted wheeling a tray of tea and sandwiches!

I have no idea what Bing is but as I said, programmes like Katie Morag helped immensely with my class topic. Many of the children I teach hadn't even left the small village they live in and this allowed them to understand and visualise with ease. The most interested were the 8 year old boys who were desperate to know whether Granny Mainland made it to the wedding (those episodes coincidently weren't overly educational but used to keep an entire class quite while the older children performed their nativity right outside my door).

In the younger stages I've used Octonauts to help with ocean related topics. There is actually some useful information about sea creatures in there.

I also use a YouTube video every single day to reinforce numbers to 100. It is a song that goes through the numbers 0-100 in order then focuses on the 1000, 10000, 100000 order. Very handy and the children are learning from it. 3 minutes out of the 1hour and 15 minute lesson to sing that isn't disastrous.

We also start most of our days watching newsround. The children love it and it really does open the doors for discussion and has impacted the teaching later on in the day. Very worthwhile to show them what goes on in the greater world.

Bing is about a whiny rabbit, who probably interests children up to the age of about 3. It usually contains a little life lesson but again at a level aimed at 2 year olds.

Don't you remember being dragged to some damp corner of school to watch Look and Read or Stop Look and Listen?(or How we Used to Live, Words and Pictures etc etc). CBeebies also makes educational programmes. Things like Numberjacks and Alphablocks have been around for years and teach fantastic basics to KS1. And it seems like a treat to the kids. Ask the class I was with yesterday and they'll happily tell you that a special teacher came and we made magic potions all morning. Actually a lesson on capacity taught by cover teacher lasting half an hour.

Wow.
So, those who strongly disagree with any CBeebies being shown in school time - have you ever spent a day teaching a class of 30 children? Have you ever witnessed behaviour issues within a class or tried to keep 30 children still and quiet for a short time of the day while you are trying desperately to reunite children with cardigans and bags, while handing out letters and leaflets single handedly?
It is times like these, when a few minutes of CBeebies can come in handy. Then, when everything is sorted, there will be time for a story before hometime...

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I've read all the posts, from parents and teachers, and I've understood them all quite well, thanks, but there isn't imo anywhere a good reason for regularly watching any tv in the classroom, neither as an "educational aid" nor to keep the kids quiet/occupied.
I don't know for sure, but I'd bet there isn't a single piece of research / recommendation saying children should watch more tv per day.
I do realise that kids can learn from programs, and I think it certainly can have value at secondary level (watching plays for English lit when it's not possible to see a live performance etc), but the arguments for CBeebies aren't convincing.

Are you a teacher miaow?