End Of BBC Schools

I agree - but I suppose you could extend the argument to parliamentary coverage / news coverage when there are channels dedicated to those too.

IMO it's a disgrace that the BBC have been allowed to cut their educational output. In " the old days " Daytime on Two used to far more interesting than " normal " daytime television. ( And that was just Words and Pictures! )

When was the last time a school showed such a programme to kids while it was going out?

Every school will have at least one copy of Geordie Racer by now!

Probably never, even when I was at School we never watched any Live Schools programmes, they had always been taped, in fact I remember that they were kept in cases and labelled what channel they were recorded from, one box for BBC2, one box for ITV, so even 20 years ago recording programmes was pretty normal in most schools.

I remember there being considerable excitement when my school got its first video recorder - I'd guess it would be approx 1985

I can't remember if ours were recorded, some of them were, but I still remember the classic ITV on C4 countdown music, so either we watched live, or they played out he full thing anyway. I remember we only had one TV in the Library, can't remember if we had a recorder or not.

If your teachers were anything like mine they always had great difficulty working the TV and VCR
There was the usual few minutes when they tried to find the video channel and getting grainy glimpses of This Morning or whatever and asking if we could watch that instead

Therefore they'd always play them in full as they could never find the fast forward/pause etc buttons on the front of the VCR!

Aye, that's true, mind that continued way past my first school, right through secondary school. What is it with teachers and technology?

Some of the teachers at my old high school STILL can't work the equipment properly. And that was only a few years ago.

It's not whether the progs are recorded or not, it's the fact that very few are going out now, especially newly made programmes especially for secondary schools.

BTW I'm a teacher and I can use computers / dvd / cds / mp3s and my interactive whiteboard

No, it's very much the point that putting out repeats of programmes that every school has already got a copy of is a pointless exercise. A large part of the schools schedule has always been repeats.

Caught the end of Around Scotland this morning and was dated 2007. Good to know at least some programmes are still being made ( in recent history anyway! )

The regions are where new output is coming from - BBC Scotland flies the flag with Around Scotland, See You See Me, What Where When Why? BBC NI produced Sesame Tree which fell under the learning banner despite being pre-school. It's the outlying nations left producing anything new.