WIBU to complain about reception children watching scary films???

[PiedWagtail]

At wet play lunchtimes the year R children either do activities or watch films. They sometimes do this as part of class time too if they are tired - say for up to 45 mins at a time.

This week they were watching Flushed Away and my ds was crying (he doesn't watch films at home - prefers to be doing other things, finds them scary, doesn't want to sit still for that long). I was in the classroom helping so he came to me for a hug then helped me put out the lunchboxes for going home time.

But what if I hadn't been there?? Would he have been left to sit there? I hate the thought of him sitting crying through a film which isn't even educational, just put on to let the teachers have a break!

WIBU asking his teacher to put on something more appropriate for 4-5yos if they HAVE to watch anything at all???? They had watched the first half of Flushed Away a previous day and he had cried during that too :( but had had to sit and watch it.

WWYD??

Update - spoke to his teacher today. She said that the children can choose whether or not to watch the film and that there are activities for ones who choose not to. Hmm. I didn't see that either afternoon I was in helping, but will let ds know that he can choose whether or not to watch, and can play if he doesn't want to watch.

Thanks for all your posts :) I do appreciate how tricky it must be supervising a group of year R children in a wet playtime :)

Goodness how did people manage before DVDS etc.Prior to the last 20 years children never watched DVDs etc ,wet play was Lego ,talking games,jigsaws colouring etc.
I have no objection to end of term treats or curriculum related activities but really don't understand the need for reception children to watch Disney fils in either class time or wet play.

neither do I. Never happened at any school dd was at . At least not yet.

I was at school in the early 80s and we definitely watched TV programmes at school. I remember watching Button Moon and some literacy programme. We definitely watched the Royal Wedding (Charles-Diana)

I suspect that when we did wet play that we must have been left unsupervised or were supervised by a teacher who missed their lunchbreak. I would also hazard a guess that some schools are more likely to assign a wet play than others and that small schools can supervise wet play more easily as they can merge classes with less difficulty.

I remember in the early 80s when I was in reception being given the option of watching Star Wars over a few lunch times. I was terrified on the first one so I chose not to watch the subsequent ones. It wasn't even wet play-I remember the sun streaming in through the windows and the teachers pinning paper to shut it out during the film. I was one of about 5 or 6 that chose (from the infants) to go out and was supervised by a member of year 6!

Bet it was just one of the teachers wanted to watch it.

But we watched "Watch" and another programme "You and me"?-with the magic pencil and Charlie-every week

you are all spring chickens compared to me. When I was at school, it was Scottish dancing in the gym

Yep I loved 'Schools programmes' on the telly, it was always a treat on the rare occasions when in was ill and could stay home on the sofa and watcch them all day. But then I was an odd only child.

As a treat we used to watch films on a projector / screen - whole school sat in the hall. I remember The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe and The Wizard of Oz (Juniors then though so maybe 8 or 9).

i think though theres a differnebe in watching those progs like the magic pencil one etc and films as they are at most 20/30 mins long and have some 'educational' point to them. fAIR ENOUGH A FILM AT THE END OF A TERM AS A TREAT OR IN LESSON TIME IF IT RELATES TO THE TOPIC YOU ARE DOING BUT I KNOW SOMJE SCHOOLS SEEM TO INCLUDE THAM AS A 'CHOICE' FOR GOLDEN TIME NEARLY EVERY WEEK AND THATS NOT REALLY ON AS MOST CHILDREN ARE OF COURSE GONNA WANNA WATCH A FILM.
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DS finds most films scary. I explained this to his Yr R teacher ( and again to Y1 teacher) they understand that he will move to thw back of the room and cover his ears and not watch. BUT after a few minutes he will start to "peep"

The class trip to teh cinema ( year 1) was "interesting " teacher said they should have worn leg armour as DS kept "grabbing" them as moments of mild peril - they watched the Winnie the pooh movie.... BUT DS survived and we have managed a successful family cinema trip since ( with the help of ear defenders and DS sitting on DH's knee head turned away from screen some of the time)