Alive and Kicking
Alive and Kicking is an ITV schools TV series from the 1970s and 1980s, covering PSHE for primary school pupils.
A health education series for infants that typically shows children doing things like looking after animals, keeping clean and sharing (or not) things with each other. The series provides starting points for teachers to help children understand themselves physically as well as socially and emotionaly, and to talk abut how to look after themselves. The experiences shown in the programmes are related to children's own experiences, showing schoolchildren playing and living their lives, and for example by comparing with animal families.
This series is the companion to the long-running ATV series Good Health, both drawn from the same 1970s Schools Countil project on health education. Good Health was designed for junior school pupils and Alive and Kicking for younger, infant school pupils.
A preview series for adults called It's Alive and Kicking accompanied the first transmissions in 1977.
Units
This site has separate pages looking at each series/unit in more detail.
| Programme | Dates | |
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Series 1 (1977) (from Alive and Kicking) • ITV Schools • Age 5-7 • Citizenship • PSHE | 1977-1979 |
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Series 2 (1980) (from Alive and Kicking) • ITV Schools • Age 5-7 • Citizenship • PSHE | 1980-1985 |
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Series 3 (1983) (from Alive and Kicking) • ITV Schools • Age 5-7 • Citizenship • PSHE | 1983-1985 |
Termly broadcasts
| Year | Autumn | Spring | Summer | |||||||||||||||
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| 1976-77 | Series 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1977-78 | Series 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1978-79 | Series 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1979-80 | Series 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1980-81 | Series 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1981-82 | Series 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1982-83 | Series 2 & Series 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1983-84 | Series 2 & Series 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1984-85 | Series 2 & Series 3 | |||||||||||||||||
Episode List
| # | # | Title | Broadcast |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series 1 | |||
| 1. | (1) | Clothing | 27 Apr 1977 |
| 2. | (2) | Safety | 4 May 1977 |
| 3. | (3) | Movement | 11 May 1977 |
| 4. | (4) | Looking After Young (1977) | 18 May 1977 |
| 5. | (5) | Emma and John | 25 May 1977 |
| 6. | (6) | On the Farm 1 | 1 Jun 1977 |
| 7. | (7) | On the Farm 2 | 15 Jun 1977 |
| 8. | (8) | Keeping Well | 22 Jun 1977 |
| Series 2 | |||
| 9. | (1) | Feelings | 22 Apr 1980 |
| 10. | (2) | Growing | 29 Apr 1980 |
| 11. | (3) | Moving | 6 May 1980 |
| 12. | (4) | Looking After Young (1980) | 13 May 1980 |
| 13. | (5) | Keeping Safe | 20 May 1980 |
| 14. | (6) | Homes and Families | 3 Jun 1980 |
| 15. | (7) | His and Hers? | 10 Jun 1980 |
| 16. | (8) | Waste? | 17 Jun 1980 |
| Series 3 | |||
| 17. | (1) | Moving Again | 18 Jan 1983 |
| 18. | (2) | Growing Again | 1 Feb 1983 |
| 19. | (3) | Looking After Young Again | 15 Feb 1983 |
| 20. | (4) | More Feelings | 8 Mar 1983 |
| 21. | (5) | Keeping Safe Again | 22 Mar 1983 |
| 22. | (6) | More Homes and Families | 3 May 1983 |
| 23. | (7) | His and Hers Again | 17 May 1983 |
| 24. | (8) | More Waste? | 7 Jun 1983 |
| 25. | (9) | Caring and Sharing | 14 Jun 1983 |
| 26. | (10) | More Caring and Sharing | 21 Jun 1983 |
Pages about each individual series have notes about these titles not always matching those shown on screen, and the use of the question marks.
Broadcasts
| Year | Term | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Channel | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976-77 | Summer 1977 | Wednesday, 11:20am | Friday, 9:50am | ITV | ||||
| 1977-78 | Summer 1978 | Thursday, 11:00am | Friday, 9:50am | ITV | ||||
| 1978-79 | Summer 1979 | Wednesday, 11:20am | Friday, 9:47am | ITV | ||||
| 1979-80 | Summer 1980 | Tuesday, 11:39am | Friday, 10:10am | ITV | Tue not HTV West; Fri not Grampian, Scottish & Borders | |||
| 1980-81 | Summer 1981 | Wednesday, 10:10am | Friday, 9:58am | ITV | ||||
| 1981-82 | Spring 1982 | Tuesday, 9:35am | Friday, 11:05am | ITV | ||||
| 1982-83 | Spring & Summer 1983 | Tuesday, 10:04am | Friday, 10:15am | ITV | ||||
| 1983-84 | Spring & Summer 1984 | Wednesday, 9:47am | Thursday, 10:11am | ITV | ||||
| 1984-85 | Spring & Summer 1985 | Tuesday, 9:59am | Thursday, 11:14am | ITV |
Resources
There were teacher's notes available each year.
The first series was also accompanied by a set of pupils' books, and one episode was available to hire on 16mm film.
Related programmes
- Good HealthThe companion series for older pupils.
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