Idents in schools

[nwtv2003]

From when I was at High School we pretty much saw Schools branding from most eras, and that was 20 years ago now. I remember we watched the 1987 series of Living and Growing in Year 7 science, which had ITV Schools on 4 presentation around it. Certainly we had plenty of TWO era presentation which also had the 10 second clock on the ident.

We also watched a Channel 4 Schools (circle era) science programme which was taped overnight, notably there was almost no presentation between the episodes which were shown in one go, other than a bumper, which was probably easier for teachers and saved tape space.

I can’t for the life of me remember the title but in Year 10 physics we watched a video of a science programme about space, but remarkably it was one that was made for TV-am. It also had a release on VHS from Pickwick, because that was where we watched it from, and not taped from the TV.

[dmch82]

Used to have the ITV Schools on 4 idents when I was at primary school (86-93) I remember our class humming along to the music of the rotomotion and countdown clock

[deejay]

I feel suddenly very old. Picture the scene (if you can). A freezing cold village school classroom (which doubled up as the hall, dining room, well everything really) in winter 1979. I see the Head push in what looked like a cupboard high up on a wheeled trolley. Two wooden doors were opened, from which rose a black metal shade, neatly folded inside. The doors opened to an angle as the shade became horizontal. Clips held the whole thing together. Inside was revealed I should think a 21” grey TV Screen. It was plugged into the mains and the solitary TV aerial socket, switched on and left to warm up while we chatted and were repeatedly told to “shush” by the teacher.


Music filled the classroom - something vaguely jazzy, but nothing we knew. There was nothing on the screen for several minutes. Eventually the screen began to brighten and we could make out the following black and white image:


And later:


And then we had to become silent for You and Me, Music Time, or Watch.

Certain memories, 40 years on, remain so clear, even if, at times, the picture on those extraordinary school television sets weren’t.

[Markymark]

The classroom picture (going by both the clothing and the telly) looks like 1960s

I can just remember from 1969 the TV (405 lines) that was high up (well, for a 5 year old ! ) in the assembly hall, and the BBC 'Pie' ident

https://images.app.goo.gl/Gt6WAaoEADqZF5zC6

Later, we had a 625 line, (still b/w) telly on a trolley that was wheeled into the appropriate classroom as required.
Set Top aerial, you could see the transmitter through the window, (I spent more time staring at that, than the blackboard)

[deejay]

The classroom picture (going by both the clothing and the telly) looks like 1960s

Yes, it probably is. It was the nearest I could find to the sort of telly my school had in the late 70s. The first colour TV set I remember in school was bought in 1982 for the raising of the Mary Rose, which we had (conveniently) studied as a topic for the term leading up to it. I seem to recall being forced to watch the giant yellow frame being inched up out of the Solent, live, and thinking “where’s the ship then?” It was, to say the least, a massive anticlimax and a very boring morning.

This news report condenses hours of television coverage into two and a half minutes.
https://youtu.be/5XhbXKE6aTc

[Markymark]

We watched a lot of Moon landing coverage . I also remember being invited to bring in empty Fairy Liquid bottles to make Saturn 5 rockets.
I got the bo***king of a lifetime for emptying out my mother's bottle to take in to school ?