Has the BBC missed a trick? Daily lessons

[EvelynBeatrice]

Has the BBC missed a trick? Not all children have good internet access even now; however, the overwhelming majority have access to a TV. If I were a state broadcaster, effectively funded through taxation and subject to increasing criticism and worried about funding etc, I’d think that it might be a good idea at a time of national educational emergency to liaise with the government and educational establishment to provide a full offering of national curriculum lessons on tv daily. It shouldn’t be beyond the wit of man to come up with a programme based on what primary children in each year should be doing.

Of course, it would be a ‘one-size-fits-all’ as it would be too advanced for some and not advanced enough for others, but better than nothing and schools could treat the national daily lessons as a base providing their own supplemental materials and homework based on it.

We have this in Portugal since the first lockdown

I agree with you but aren't they doing just that with BBC bitesize etc?

Pretty sure they’ve done this haven’t they?

I haven’t used it but remember hearing about it.

I thought they were on CBBC?

The secondary offer think could be better. It's too bitty.
I don't like it being split by year group. e.g. They could just spend 20mins on 'measures' gradually getting harder, rather than split it into 3 chunks.

They're doing this on BBC 2 daily aren't they?

Where've you been? 😂

They are doing this..

Of course they're doing this. They are the national broadcaster! They did it in the first lockdown too.

www.bbc.co.uk/teach/learning-at-home-supporting-teachers/zkfr92p

Great if they are .... but shouldn’t they be mentioning it / promoting it at eg start and end of news every day? Maybe they are? If they do, I must say that I’ve missed it. I’d have expected a bigger launch and lots of fuss to be honest with schools working with it. Why so low key?! Is anyone using it? Is it any good?
All I have read recently in relation to BBC educational output is criticism of their ‘100 genders’ programme - nothing at all about their daily educational output! PR failure on their part unless the offering is poor and they are avoiding ‘over-egging’ it?

They are doing it. Wasn't that impressed with what we looked at though. Some short videos are nice, been done by teachers in our school for example. But kids can't navigate it easily themselves.

They are, its called bbc bitesize. Daily programs and website.

Great if they’re doing this. My kid is older so less relevant but neighbour with younger children was complaining about bite size etc and said nothing else, so will point him to link! Thanks

They are and are advertising it all over the place.

It would be hard for all schools to use it, because there isn't one standard curriculum. So planning for different subjects is drawn from different schemes and different year groups will be at different points in the planning.

There was quite a big noise about it when they launched it www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zvryp4j

To be honest op you do have to look for them. I think there isn't enough considering the circumstances.

As well as the BBC there’s a full curriculum of online lessons called Oak Academy that won’t incur any data charges with most mobile and internet providers.

www.thenational.academy/

@EvelynBeatrice

Great if they are .... but shouldn’t they be mentioning it / promoting it at eg start and end of news every day? Maybe they are? If they do, I must say that I’ve missed it. I’d have expected a bigger launch and lots of fuss to be honest with schools working with it. Why so low key?! Is anyone using it? Is it any good? All I have read recently in relation to BBC educational output is criticism of their ‘100 genders’ programme - nothing at all about their daily educational output! PR failure on their part unless the offering is poor and they are avoiding ‘over-egging’ it?

I’m really surprised you missed this.

I have specific things I need to cover with my class this year. The daily lessons on the BBC are far too random to fit into a cohesive and progressive learning plan. I’m not saying the content isn’t good quality, just the topics don’t fit what I need. It’s a good idea in theory but a different story in practice.

What planet are you living on OP? Even a quick Google search would have saved you embarrassing yourself here and you continue to dig yourself deeper in your ignorance

Good lord. I live 3,000 miles away from the U.K. and even I knew about this ;)

They are doing it, they are advertising it on bbc

I've found them very bitty and not really building in much continuity or progression. For instance, fractions one day, multiplication the next. And in a 20 minute programme, they'll cover two or three things such as an element of Maths, some grammar, some reading. It just doesn't cut it.

It's a nice effort, and it's better than nothing for the kids who can't or won't engage with their school's offering, but it's not something I would be signposting my children to unless it was the only way they were going to get any education.

The Bitesize daily lessons on their website last year however - those were much better and I did use them with them sometimes. Not as accessible though, as they really did need an adult to help them work through, especially at KS1.

Year 4 and I had a look at the BBC - very poor, unco-ordinated provision so not worth our time.