11 Facts About ITV Schools

ITV Schools was the educational television service set up in 1957 by the Independent Television Authority, broadcasting learning programmes for children ages 5 to 18 across ITV-affiliated stations.

ITV moved its schools programming to Channel 4 and S4C in autumn 1987 although ITV continued to produce programmes and the service continued to use the ITV name for another six years.

ITV Schools broadcasts gave teachers access to a broad spectrum of teaching resources, such as documentary film with which to illustrate their regular lessons, or songs and stories for children to learn and discuss, and could be considered an early example of multimedia learning.

Activities and booklets based on the programmes were available to teachers via the educational officers based at the local ITV Schools companies, allowing students to develop a relationship with the regular broadcasts.

Schools programmes on ITV were generally between ten and twenty minutes in length.

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At 09:28, the four ITV Schools logos glided onto stage, followed by the first minute of The Journey, before gliding off stage.

Once the tune had reached the end, the ITV Schools logos glided off stage, and were replaced by the clock.

On Channel 4 at the end of schools programming, the ITV logos glided onto stage, with the first ten seconds of The Journey.

On S4C, Welsh-language programmes were seen under the S4C Ysgolion banner, and used their own holding devices and clock similar to ITV Schools, but used the same music as the national holding device.

S4C used the traditional ITV Schools holding device for English language programmes, but the S4C logo was keyed over the Channel 4 logo on the aston bar at the bottom of the screen.

The only exception was S4C in Wales, which continued to opt out some English programmes for its Welsh-language programmes; this continued even after ITV Schools was re-branded as Channel 4 Schools, with S4C adopting S4C Schools for its English programmes, continuing to use S4C Ysgolion for its Welsh programmes.