Play School is an Australian educational television show for children produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. This is the longest children show in Australia, and the second longest show in the world, after Blue Peter .
It is estimated that 80% of pre-school children under six years watch the program at least once a week. It's played four times each weekday on ABC Kids, at 6 Ã, , 9 Ã, am, 12 Ã, noon and 3:30 pm (from July 7, 2014) and twice daily every weekend on 9 Ã, and 3:30 Ã, pm.
In 2006, Play School was received at Logies' Hall of Fame. The program celebrates 50 years of broadcasting in 2016. Many presenters keep the series for a long period, including Don Spencer (31 years), Benita Collings (30 years), John Hamblin (29 years old), Alister Smart, (25 years) Noni Hazlehurst (23 years), John Waters (19 years) and Jan Kingsbury (15 years). While the show is written by preschool educational experts, presenters are trained actors or musicians who can connect well with target audiences.
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History
Play School started production on July 18, 1966 (three years before Sesame Street), and was based on a British program of the same name. The first episode began transmitting that day, when the program was live. It has been produced continuously since this time. It has also launched the careers of several Australian television actors and presenters. Diane Dorgan and Don Spencer were the only regular presenters who appeared in both English and Australian versions, although Lorraine Bayly appeared in September 1972 as a guest storyteller at the BBC Play School. It was received at the Logies' Hall of Fame on its 40th anniversary in 2006, in recognition of the powerful influence of the show on at least three generations of Australian children. Play School is the third show to enter the Hall of Fame by itself, after Four Corners (1992) and Neighbors (2005). It was also the first children show to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
During the presentation of the Logie Awards, a package featuring unforgettable scenes from shows throughout its history was shown, before famous presenters (from past and present) came to the stage with some of the favorite toys from the show. After the presenter receives the award, the audience then joins them to perform the theme song Play School .
In 1992, the window-through segment featured early performances by an Australian children's band, The Wiggles, performing songs "Get Ready to Wiggle" and "Rock-a-Bye Your Bear" at the daycare center.
On Monday 4 July 2011, Play School updated its opening title using a combination of stop motion and computer animation with a new arrangement of theme songs sung by presenter Jay Laga'aia and Justine Clarke.
In 2016, Play School celebrates 50 years in the air and has one month of celebration.
50th Anniversary Celebrate School Celebration
To mark this special occasion, starting July 4, the program presents a series called Play School Celebrity Covers:
On July 18th at 6:30 pm ABC also aired a special 50th Anniversary Play School Celebrity Covers featuring Hamish & amp; Andy sings "There's a Hole in my Bucket"; John Hamblin, "I'm a Little Teapot"; And the Sultan, "The Wheels on the Bus"; Molly Meldrum and Charlie Pickering, "Nursery Rhyme News"; Delta Goodrem, "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" & amp; "Moon Month"; Benita Collings & amp; Don Spencer, "Teddy Bears Picnic"; Josh Thomas, "Ning Nang Nong"; Annabell Crabb and Leigh Sales, "Singing in the Kitchen"; Guy Sebastian, "Singing in the Rain"; Magda Szubanski, "Old Mother Hubbard"; and you are me, "One Potato, Two Potatoes".
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Format
Event formats are events, songs, and games with hosts that meet each other at the end of their segment, and often join each other in activities. Every day the presenters see the calendar to find out what day of the week, read a story, and look through the window. From 1976 to 2000, they had a clock shaped like a rocket, and from 1966 to 2000, a clock shaped like a flower. Until 2000, the windows looked almost exactly like their English counterparts with little difference. They changed the background behind the windows from black to white at the end of 1967 and they later turned it into a light blue in 1985. In 1987 the Play School had a minor change to the 21st birthday in the air; there was a light cosmetic overhaul on the set, with a set of new opening and closing titles with new versions of the theme song sung by presenter, Philip Quast and Jennifer Ludlam; the windows also changed to look like those used in the English version of the show, but these changes were not well received and the windows were returned to their old style in 1988, which remained until a major change in 2000.
In 1992 there was a change of look with new shelves and colored tree shapes in the background; This change was done around the middle of the 1992 production season, with an early 1992 episode retaining the older 1980s set.
Every week there is a common theme that runs through programs that are reflected by actors during the episode; themes including Dinosaurs, Opposite, Zoo Animals, Food, Clothes, Games, Art, Hair, Hats, Shapes, Road Safety and vehicles. Each theme (or five-episode block) is repeated twice a year on average for a period of six to seven years, before it is recycled and reused in new episodes. Because the funding is limited, only 45 new episodes are created each year, which means the nine weekly blocks shown annually are new episodes, the rest are repeated.
In 2000, the show underwent a massive change, with rockets and flower clocks and three windows stored to support the new style of Play School . The main clock is now called Play School Clock, which is controlled by one of the presenters standing at the top of the clock and turning a twisting device, leading to clues on the story to slide down a slick swim. It was soon replaced by Hickory Dickory Clock featuring clocks that resembled the "Hickory Dickory" rhyme breeding. It was soon replaced by a Train Clock that resembled a train station with a clock on it. The windows also changed a lot. They are now built into a large spinning prop built under the clock (shown one week) and 'controlled' by one of the presenters pulling the lever backwards and forwards. The windows (now including the diamond window) will spin and will slowly be removed as the window they will see until they get to the fourth window and the camera will slowly zoom and fade into the filling. The order in which they appear is Square ~ Diamond ~ Round ~ Arched ~ Square. It was soon replaced by an animated window where Jemima stood next to the round window, Little Ted standing beside the square window, Big Ted standing beside the diamond window and Humpty standing beside the curved window and the selected window past the recorded recordings.
Pianist
The program has a music director, who serves as a pianist who plays live music to accompany the presenter in every episode. Sometimes the pianist will make an appearance in front of the camera, one of the more famous is Warren Carr, who will serve as music director for over 20 years. The pianists who worked at Play School for many years were:
- Bill Antman (1966-1972)
- Judy Bailey (1970s-1990)
- Penny Biggins (1991-1994)
- Warren Carr (1972-1993)
- Peter J Casey (1996-2004)
- Ron Creager (1998)
- Peter Dasent (2000-present)
- Rob Eastwood (2000) - after changing
- Max Lambert (1991-1999, 2004)
- Paul McDermott (1991-1994)
- Brian Castles Onion (2003-2004)
- Lindsay Partridge (1994)
- Elliott Wilshier (1994-1999)
- Franky Valentyn (2000s)
Awards and nominations
AACTA Awards
Sunday Night Logie Awards
ARIA Awards
AIMIA Awards
Toy
Teachings
Since the start of the program, Play School producers have made efforts to promote equality, a fun education, and a passion for learning in listeners. Working at the Play School has been considered a very demanding and important work for some actors, because they feel they are part of the life-generation of children and provide a foundation for learning things that will last forever. life.
Play School Philosophy stating is to encourage a child 'to wonder, think, feel and imagine'. Duo (sometimes trio when joining actress hearing Sofya Gollan) from presenters (now almost always male-female couple, but sometimes two women or two boys) address the child directly and personally, so that every child watching shows feel that they spend time with two people they know and can trust.
Into this connection there are stories, songs, and activities that form the cultural fabric of Australian children.
Controversy
On May 31, 2004, a segment of 'through the window' was shown showing what the public took to be two lesbians who took their child and friends to the amusement park. A little girl, Brenna Harding, narrated the clip, stating "My mother took me and my friend Merryn to the amusement park." The clip was lifted as controversial by the media, and three federal ministers expressed displeasure over the screening. However, ABC responded, saying that " Playing School aims to reflect the diversity of Australian children, embrace all sorts of races, religions and family situations." Segment manufacturers also said the segment showed the girl was accompanied by her biological mother and stepmother (hence "two mothers") and they believed most people would automatically assume the same thing.
The 2013 segment shows Alex Papps build some kind of tool that involves straw inserted through the side of a plastic bottle, which is then filled with hot water, accidentally resembling a bong. This controversy became viral again in 2015, when the segment was played back.
Songs
- "Play School Theme"
- "Painting the Rainbow"
- "I Can Run As Fast As You"
- "Skidamarink"
- "My hat has three corners"
- "Put your finger on your nose"
- "This little girl"
- "The Black Cat" (Note: this is the first animation of Blacky: the singer was Barbara Frawley (1980-1992)) (starting in 1980)
- "Take You Ride in my car" (starting in the mid-1980s)
- "In Ning Nang Nong" (started in 1987)
- "Stand with one leg"
- "Australia is a vast land"
- "Wiggerly Woo"
- "Zoom"
- "Hi Diddle Diddle"
- "How do you feel today"
- "He Will Come Closer to the Mountain"
- "Der Glumph goes the little green frog"
- "Banana in Pajamas" - which will serve as the theme for the same program that was broadcast from 1992
- "Crazy Crazy Conga"
- "Splish Splash Splash"
- "Rock-a-bye your bear"
- "Little Peter Rabbit"
- "Upsey down town"
- "Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear"
- "Dingle has a scarecrow"
- "Sing the Rainbow"
- "Five Little Ducks out one day"
- "Five Gray Elephants"
- "I Love Singing"
- "This is the Sea"
- "Hickory Dickory Dock"
- "Dino Stomp"
- "How many people live in your home"
- "In Summer"
- "Changes, Changes, Everywhere"
- "Doe a Deer"
- "Dragon song"
- "Open, Close Them"
- "Walking in the City"
- "We Going to the Zoo"
- "Fur, Furs, or Fins"
- "The Wheels on the Bus"
- "Chicken Talk"
- "I Love Peace, I Love to Calm"
- "I'm very hungry"
- "Fun to make something"
- "There are 10 in bed"
- "Everyone has a little rhythm"
- "3 Jellyfish"
- "Cuddles"
- "The Egg Song"
- "The Sprogled Frog Song"
- "They're Digging the Hole on the Road"
- "Glad to Be Crazy"
- "If all the world is paper"
- "And we walk and we stop"
- "Put a line here"
- "Run to the corner"
- "Quick fast, turn on firetruck"
- "I can do this"
Theme song
The theme song, "There's a Bear in There", was composed by Australian composer Richard Connolly, with lyrics by Rosemary Milne.
"There is a bear there,
and seats as well There are people with games,
and stories to tell Open wide, enter;
this is Play School. "
Recently edited by Andre Butterworth aka Copycatt as the winner of the Triple J Play School remix competition which, along with two other remixes by KLP and Jondrette Den, appeared on the Play School album Famous Friends: Celebrating 50 Years of Play School.
In 2017, "There's a Bears in There" was inducted into the National Film Sound archives and the Australian Sound Records.
Logo history
Play School has had a number of openers and logos throughout its long history. Originating as a simple animation with vocals from a selection presenter, each logo and opener has evolved over the years from the series. The latest logo, introduced in 2011, features an opening entirely made of stop-motion animation with vocals by presenters Justine Clarke and Jay Laga'aia.
Presenter
Current presenter
- Jolene Anderson (2010 -)
- Justine Clarke (1999 -)
- Luke Carroll (2010 -)
- Rachael Coopes (2011 -)
- Michelle Lim Davidson (2013 -)
- Teo Gebert (2003 -)
- Sofya Gollan (1991 -)
- Takaya Honda (2015 -)
- Jay Laga'aia (2000 -)
- Andrew McFarlane (2000 -)
- Rhys Muldoon (1999 -)
- Zindzi Okenyo (2013 -)
- Emma Palmer (2011 -)
- Karen Pang (1998 -)
- Alex Papps (2005 -)
- Jonny Pasvolsky (2011 -)
- Eddie Perfect (2015 -)
- Miranda Tapsell (2016-)
- Abi Tucker (2009 -)
Former presenters
See also
- List of Australian television series
- List of programs broadcast by ABC Television
- List of oldest Australian television series
- Fellow Road
- Captain Kangaroo
- Play School (UK TV series)
- Play School (New Zealand TV series)
- Mr. Rogers Environment
- Polka Dot Door
Note
References
External links
- Official website
- Play School on IMDb
- Play School on TV.com
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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