School / Educational television programmes

[julie and david]

Re: School / Educational television programmes

i rememeber play school and play away blimey i was about 4 or 5 and thats a long time ago lol

[Richard1978]

Re: School / Educational television programmes

I remember watching the 1954-70 run of How We Used To Live, my Teacher was impressed that I knew about 1 or 2 events mentioned.

[Star Attraction]

Re: School television programmes

Do you remember the little "ghost" Charlie on Words and Pictures?

There was one programme where he sang this song (this is something like how it went):

These are some of my favourite foods
And I like them all with chips.

Chicken and chips, chicken and chips,
Everybody here likes chicken and chips.
We eat them all day, never throw them away,
We all like chicken and chips.

Chocolate and chips, chocolate and chips,
Everybody here likes chocolate and chips.
We eat them all day, never throw them away,
We all like chocolate and chips.

Chewing gum and chips, chewing gum and chips,
Everybody here likes chewing gum and chips.
We eat them all day, never throw them away,
We all like chewing gum and chips.

Does anyone else who was around in the 1970s remember that little song? I do well. I know chocolate or chewing gum with chips seems ridiculous, but I think that song was really intended to teach children the CH sound, i.e. chips, chicken, chocolate, chewing gum.

[Wil]

Re: For Schools television

I remember two television programmes we regularly watched at school when I was about seven. One was 'Watch', the other was 'Up In The Attic'

Up In The Attic was the forerunner to Words and Pictures and is, probably, my earliest memory of schools TV from the early '70s (I was probably off ill that day and allowed to watch TV downstairs). There's info about it here - http://www.broadcastforschools.co.uk...s_and_Pictures

[stuckinthe80's]

Re: For Schools television

I used to love 'Stop, Look, Listen '. Chris tarrant used to narrate it I think.

[Sly]

Re: School television programmes

For me, schools tv memories were:
Story World
Zig Zag
You and Me
Word and Pictures (and the magic pencil)
Maths is Fun
Stop Look Listen (liked the opening titles with the face)
How we used to live
And most of all the rotating ITV logo with very pleasant music, then the logo changed into a clock with music we all had to hum along too.
I also liked the S4C interval which had a clock with red balls bouncing to the beat.

Pretty much this from me. There was a weird one where there was a King and a Queen, and after the show we used to colour the pictures of these 2 characters in. I don't know which show this was to, I think maybe Words and Pictures.

I can still remember the You & Me music.

Maths is Fun was never fun. Not back then. Not now.

[GreenKnight]

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My earliest memory of school TV was a programme called "Watch". Unfortunately the most memorable thing about it, for me anyway, was being captivated by the clock counting down before the programme started and that music which filled us all with anticipation, as we sat cross-legged on the hard floor. Happy days!

[Jacqueline]

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I remember "Watch" too. We used to count down the clock that appeared before it.

[HG]

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Was it ITV schools that had the clock?

[stuckinthe80's]

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Yeah I think it was itv and then channel 4. Wasn't watch on bbc2?

[smiles7964]

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Does anyone remember 'Through the dragons eye' with the terrifying crow man thing, and geordie racer, from the late 80's? They were both series we watched at school. : )

[80sChav]

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I remember well in the heyday of Schools Programmes on BBC2 and C4, they used to be on from 9 in the Morning until about 2pm .... they'd be just as occasional as School itself I thought at the time (and still do). I think it was a travesty that they got axed from TV, in the daytime, really educational full stop.

[telcur]

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Going to work was a good programme. It was on around lunchtimes during the 60s and early 70s. The idea was to show young people what it was like to work in various environments.

[moonvisage]

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I remember watching: The Raven and the Cross.It was about the Viking invasion of britain.It was brilliant.It was on BBC Merry Go Round.

http://openlibrary.org/books/OL17422..._and_the_cross

[80sChav]

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I wish that schools Programmes had lasted past the start of the 1990s! They sure showed how made school subjects educational and gave a real insight on them/life in general too!

It would be good to know if any Programmes from BBC2 or Channel 4 or BBC1 and ITV (if they had them) still existed. More so it'd be amazing if a member on actually had his/her School filmed in for such stories ... now that would be something!!

80sChav