Due to the schools being closed in the UK at present, a lot of teachers are recommending that those who are home schooling make use of the BBC Bitesize educational programmes. When I was a child educational programmes both from the BBC and what was the IBA independent channel were pretty good and showed us all stuff that could not easily be shown either by way of books or in the classroom. We could learn stuff about geography and history presented in a way that it was not possible to do in a classroom that was really only set up for ‘chalk and talk’.
Unfortunately those days are long gone and what we get from the BBC is a programme that purports to be about the River Nile, but in reality is a man in a pink tutu dancing around for some unexplained reason. I saw this on Laurence Fox’s Twitter feed and I was gobsmacked. You can get a flavour of what worrying guff the BBC believe is suitable for our children by looking at the header image. You can see the entire clip by going to Mr Fox’s Twitter feed via the link below. Would you sit your child down in front of this guff? I would not.
https://twitter.com/LozzaFox/status/1348628940340998147
Absolutely dire & infantilising, wouldn’t let any children watch. What age group is this for? Looks like 4-6/7, still terrible compared to Playschool when I was that age. Also, 4-6/7 don’t need to know about Ancient Egypt, Greece etc – 3Rs only. Playschool was adults talking to mini-adults, this is pretend children talking to babies #defundBBC
I remember the TV at primary school, it was in hall and class sat on floor to watch ~once a month
Later I liked this: Think Of A Number – Johnny Ball
youtube.com/watch?v=gvN6OwqFMuU
Maybe NHS should watch, they might realise using fire hose to remove ice from O2 condensers as we did every 4 hours ‘clean down’ at Salveson’s liquid Nitrogen spray food freezers & Ammonia blast freezers in mid 80s is good practise
Maybe too that HPLV and LPHV equipment are different
It is indeed dire stuff from the BBC. I believe that this is aimed at 4 to 7’s as you say. I agree it’s not as good as some of the stuff that the BBC put out in the past. I’ve been introducing our child to good stuff from the past such as Mr Benn and Mary Mungo and Midge and it is being well received. I also recall how schools TV was for us event telly.
I’ve seen a number of people pointing out how the NHS has badly managed its O2 supply and that they consistently fail to plan for problems with O2 in cold weather.
Prep School “hall” – meant landing, the upstairs space outside P4-P7 doors
Assembly hall was P1, below P5, P6 and small smokey staff room
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