What Did You Do At School Today?
A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at educational practices in junior schools across the West Riding of Yorkshire.
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Bill Morrell
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A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at educational practices in junior schools across the West Riding of Yorkshire.
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CinemaSerf6 Mar 29, 2026Though this is a rather dryly presented documentary, it does showcase quite successfully how junior school children actually appear to have enjoyed their time at school. Not for them a procession of blackboard lessons or times tables; more a much more participative series of tasks from painting, singing, composing and performing their own music as well as taking inspiration from their surroundings, history and literature to create an environment for learning that allows boys and girls to work and play together and to use their own imaginations. This also illustrates quite effectively how much of a skill the art of teaching is, and the fact that these pupils are given a freedom to explore away from text book learning shows just how vocational those professionals, and their teaching assistants, are. Along the way, we also get a chance to see some of the (polyester) fashions that prevailed at the time as well as some of the rather angular car designs and as a time capsule of education in 1972, it’s worth half an hour. I wonder what these kids are doing nowadays?
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