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It is ironic that I actually saw a lot more schools programmes on the television while I was at home then at school (and I am certain that this applies to others as well). It is connected to school days of course, although it is connected to television as well, but mostly school days...
Picture this: I become unwell during Sunday night which meant I was unable to go to school on Monday morning. I suppose that as I hated school, there would have been a sign of relief at this prospect, and as a result, it made being ill worthwhile in many ways. Sometimes the bowl and the broadsheet newspaper sheets spread across the floor at the side of the bed indicated how ill I really was, and that I wasn't playing truant just to get off school.
In the days, long before Jeremy Kyle and This Morning, I could almost remember being ill and staying in bed for the first time since starting school, and having the black and white portable television set in the bedroom. I knew that I did not want to miss out on my education, so I had the schools programmes on. As soon as TV-am's After Nine finished, Monday mornings meant Picture Box with Alan Rothwell first thing (never saw it at school even when I was actually there), and later on, Chris Tarrant narrated an edition of Stop, Look, Listen which was more tailored to my age group as a six year old.
What wasn't tailored for my age because it was a lot older for me was the Granada series Experiment with Jack Smith narrating physics or chemistry experiments inside a lab, and I was thinking "what?" at watching something that was too old for myself - for a region that didn't want to schedule schools programmes in its region back in the late 1950s, Granada's programmes seem more professional in a sub-Open University sort of way.
We watched Words and Pictures in the afternoon at school when Vicky Ireland was presenting, and so I always tuned into that as well. And You and Me as well. Mind you, I used to watch the post-News at One films on ITV as well if there were no other school programmes on the other side.
I had come to the conclusion that home education was an agreeable thing, and I often wished that my own parents were rich enough and academic enough for me to allow me to opt out of the system and be home educated that way, but it never was. I found studying at my Central Library a lot more easier to learn about what I want to find out about then being in the same room with 29 other unruly kids. Mind you, I was an isolated person back then - I still am, come to that.
Did anyone used to watch schools programmes when off school ill, mostly in lieu of going to school itself?
Picture this: I become unwell during Sunday night which meant I was unable to go to school on Monday morning. I suppose that as I hated school, there would have been a sign of relief at this prospect, and as a result, it made being ill worthwhile in many ways. Sometimes the bowl and the broadsheet newspaper sheets spread across the floor at the side of the bed indicated how ill I really was, and that I wasn't playing truant just to get off school.
In the days, long before Jeremy Kyle and This Morning, I could almost remember being ill and staying in bed for the first time since starting school, and having the black and white portable television set in the bedroom. I knew that I did not want to miss out on my education, so I had the schools programmes on. As soon as TV-am's After Nine finished, Monday mornings meant Picture Box with Alan Rothwell first thing (never saw it at school even when I was actually there), and later on, Chris Tarrant narrated an edition of Stop, Look, Listen which was more tailored to my age group as a six year old.
What wasn't tailored for my age because it was a lot older for me was the Granada series Experiment with Jack Smith narrating physics or chemistry experiments inside a lab, and I was thinking "what?" at watching something that was too old for myself - for a region that didn't want to schedule schools programmes in its region back in the late 1950s, Granada's programmes seem more professional in a sub-Open University sort of way.
We watched Words and Pictures in the afternoon at school when Vicky Ireland was presenting, and so I always tuned into that as well. And You and Me as well. Mind you, I used to watch the post-News at One films on ITV as well if there were no other school programmes on the other side.
I had come to the conclusion that home education was an agreeable thing, and I often wished that my own parents were rich enough and academic enough for me to allow me to opt out of the system and be home educated that way, but it never was. I found studying at my Central Library a lot more easier to learn about what I want to find out about then being in the same room with 29 other unruly kids. Mind you, I was an isolated person back then - I still am, come to that.
Did anyone used to watch schools programmes when off school ill, mostly in lieu of going to school itself?
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