Second week at school

I have had a little more contact with ICT during my second week on placement. I showed a short film of The Three Little Pigs during a literacy lesson, The film was used as a discussion stimulus in which the children asked and answered questions about the setting, characters, colours and language. The film was approximately 10 minutes long which meant that the children didn't have too much information to take in nor were they watching the television for too long.



The TV time they have during the teachers' PPA is spent watching videos relating to the topics they are covering in other subjects. I have not yet participated in the TV time but I hope to before the placement ends. I asked the children what they think of this time and most of them said that they found it boring commenting also that too much TV is bad for you. When I mentioned that their TV time is only 15 minutes a week they pointed out that they watch a lot of TV at home so they don't want to watch it at school as well, many of them said they would prefer to do something creative like painting or collaging during this time. I found this interesting as I had (wrongly) assumed that they would enjoy TV time.


The children have access to digital cameras occasionally and really enjoy using them to film each other. I assisted with a lesson in which the children were hotseating characters from The Three Billy Goats Gruff in pairs, and these 'hotseats' were filmed. The children enjoy making and watching these films and I hope to have an opportunity to use them in one of my lessons.