Watching you tube every day at school

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My DC is in yr1. They are a class of 30 with a teacher and a TA. Every day he comes home and mentions that they have spent at least some time watching you tube eg pink panther or Tom and Jerry and sometimes it is an action song. I feel this is not normal/ my expectation, but I recognise that I did not grow up in this country. AIBU?

I think with little ones especially, its a long day, their brains can't be constantly on the go and they need a little 10 minute or so "time out"

I am sure no teacher is using YouTube constantly!

I use loads of movement break songs/ dances, counting songs, Geraldine Giraffe for Phonics. The only time it's something silly/ non educational is either wet play or the very end of the day when I have to have 1:1 conversations and fill out home-school journals.

Op I'd assume its 10min at the end of the day before hometime, after she's got her class tidied up for the day, kids are tired by then.

Seriously its a few minutes that the kids will love and remember.

As a child I remember playing heads down thumbs up in that last few minutes before the bell.
I also had an amazing teacher who'd read a book, with huge enthusiasm 😀 a chapter or two each day. The best teacher ever.

You need to go to the HT.

Safeguarding guidelines require schools, LAs and trusts to look carefully at their IT infrastructure. If a teacher is using youtube in the classroom, there is a risk pupils exposed to inappropriate adverts or, worse, some content doctored to have distressing images spliced into the middle of the programme.

You need to share your concern that the choice of content has low value (why not read a class book to the children?) and also that you’d like to know what filtering and monitoring mechanisms the school has in place.

Never feel you can’t got to a HT. They appreciate a sensible parent’s insight.

school filters are pretty robust. if the filter isn't robust enough, that is a separate issue, not a you-tube issue

(why not read a class book to the children?)

But we do that to! it isn't either/or you know - and plenty of learning is far better done visually.

Parent still has a right to ask what the school policy is on use of youtube in school, whether policies are being followed and whether children sufficiently safeguarded.

sure, they have the right to ask... and the maths policy, and the reading book policy, and the playground policy, and if the children are sufficiently safeguarded with all those policies, go ahead, ask about as many policies as you want. You tube isn't any more "dangerous" than reading books - I found "where the wind blows" on my son's school bookshelf when he was about 6

What a load of rubbish!

@BlueBlahBlah I used 2 Tom and Jerry cartoons today in my year 8 lesson on film music. The music is such an inherent part of why the cartoons are so successful. In one, we discussed the use of different instruments to represent the characters and particular moods. Then we saw and heard examples of Mickey-mousing. We noted the use of a whole-tone scale to represent an ascent to "heaven" then the discords of "hell". All of these are key terms in the GCSE specification, so your assertion that Tom and Jerry "holds no educational value" is bollocks.

Before every lesson, I make sure there are no adverts before or during the clips, so kids are not subject to inappropriate content.

At A level, to be able to hear a symphony and have the full score on screen is an absolute Godsend. We cannot afford to buy scores for each piece for every student, so YouTube is just brilliant.

Some people need to trust that teachers do actually know what they are doing and perhaps not believe every word that comes out of their DC's mouth.

That’s great @Malbecfan but I doubt that’s what’s happening with the 5 and 6 yr olds that the OP mentioned.

I'm sure if the teacher came across any inappropriate content she wouldn't be using it.

We use you tube a lot as it is linked to the online curriculum we subscribe to. I have to be authenticated before I can use it and that has to be redone after an hour has passed so if I use it first thing in the morning and I want to reuse it at the end of the day I would need to re authenticate. The action songs may Jack Hartman who is fab although I do get my children to use their posh maths voices when saying the numbers.

Numberblocks was our choice during snack time but my current class are too old for them. I miss joining in with the children singing the intro and calling out answers!

Indeed, but I was refuting your initial comment that Tom and Jerry "holds no educational content".

In the case of the OP, their DC could be watching something equally as beneficial, but only remembering that it was on YouTube. The OP needs to get all the facts before talking to the teacher. As for the nonsense from @HFJ ; my Head would laugh you out of the building, because he trusts my professional judgement.

Please tell me this is satire and not a serious post. I despair.

A year 1 teacher will be anything but lazy!