25 years since ITV Schools ended.

I also remember the posters. At primary school in around 81/82 I remember being excited to see each programme listed had the logo of the regional ITV company that made it alongside. I even asked the teacher to keep it for me at the end of term, but she gave me the BBC one instead.

This was when I was around 5 years-old. Funny the things you never grow out of.

Why did BBC get rid of countdown clock in 1991? YET itv/Channel kept it until 2004...

I really don't understand how the girl can get her hair so frizzy with the plasma ball (0:26), yet when I had the exact same amount of hair, I never got anywhere! Witchcraft, I tell ye!

It's a Van De Graaff generator, not a plasma ball

That's because the dome she has her hands on is the top of a Van de Graaff Generator, not a plasma ball
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_de_Graaff_generator

I have a plasma ball in my living room, I'd be a bit concerned if it made my hair stand on end!

Whoosh.

You're saying "whoosh" like we missed an obvious joke... but you edited your post to change it.

I started primary school,in the late 1970s. We had one TV, which was a black and white thing on a wheeled stand with extraordinary wooden doors covering the screen, which when opened also unfolded a canopy, presumably to try and reduce any reflections on the screen. It would take a good 10 minutes to warm up (before the picture would appear), so would be wheeled in with much aplomb by the teacher and we’d sit listening to the end of the previous programme, and the interval music before the one we were supposed to be watching. By the time the picture came on, the clock would usually be counting down and the teachers would insist on silence so we could “enjoy” Music Time, Watch or How We Used to Live or whatever.

The first colour TV I remember at school was used for the raising of The Mary Rose in 1982. It was (conveniently) our topic and the exciting day of the raising actually (as far as I can remember) meant a morning off school, watching some unrecognisable timers emerge painfully slowly from the murky Solent.

My primary school years were 1993 to 2000, yet one of the most iconic bit of schools presentation for me is the Daytime on 2 ident that was withdrawn several years before I was born, as lots of VHS copies of the likes of Look & Read and Zig Zag were recorded in that era. Despite only being about a decade old at the time the whole look of that era fascinated me, and I'd always be disappointed when the teacher fast-forwarded the 'Follows Shortly' slides.

I wonder now if kids in primary school today would be equally fascinated about equivalent "ancient" TV presentation from the mid-late 2000s.

Sadly today's kids are less likely to see it, as these days people don't tend to record stuff off TV to keep any more, so they aren't likely to have recordings of old TV sitting around.

I went to Primary School in the mid-late 90s and Secondary in the early-mid 00s. We only watched one programme live that I can remember, and that was one of the Look and Read series in year 4 (which I think would be 1997-98 ). Most of the programmes other than that were off official copies rather than recordings.

In secondary though there were loads of ancient off-air recordings. Science in particular relied on a series recorded off Channel 4 in the ITV Schools on 4 era. The presence of both the weird ITV logo and the Channel 4 logo always baffled me.

Someone further up mentioned this was all played out by 4 themselves, is that correct? I thought it was Central playing it out?