Magic Grandad

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1993

Kids

15 minutes

Summary

Magic Grandad was an educational programme which originally aired on BBC Two under the title 'Switch On, Switch Off' during Schools section of 1993. The show saw 'Magic' Grandad take his young grandchildren back in time, many of the adventures are about comparing the past and the present and seeing how evidence of what happened in the olden days still survives. The show was said to make learning about history "fun for youngsters" and was aimed at children aged 5-7 years. The series was introduced to support the History National Curriculum at Key Stage 1. New seasons have been made periodically to support new areas of the infant history curriculum such as seaside holidays and toys. The early season have a companion booklet of teacher's notes with descriptions of the episodes, various suggestions for follow-up work and photocopiable worksheets.

Episodes

Total of 21 episodes.

90 years Ago3 Episodes
Famous People4 Episodes
Seaside Holiday3 Episodes
Toys3 Episodes
Famous People 24 Episodes
More Famous People4 Episodes

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StatusEnded at: June 18, 2009
1993-2009
15 years ago

LanguageEnglish

Spoken LanguagesEnglish

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