‘It's even bigger than nursery's screen!’ my three-year-old exclaimed when I took her to the cinema for the first time. Ironically, my friend has dubbed it ‘cinema time’ when she drops her daughter into nursery before lunch. She says that the lights are often dimmed and the children are staring at programmes being projected onto the pre-school room wall.
She enquired what television the children are viewing and was assured that it is all ‘educational’, such as Numberjacks, and sometimes they use the projector to show the children movements to new songs. Among ourselves, we’ve joked that the staff and children are all in on the ‘great TV conspiracy’. They talk openly about the educational stuff but seem to have a good understanding of programmes such as Disney Club.
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