Pieces of Eight
From Broadcast for Schools.co.uk.co.uk
companyUlster
started25th Apr
1983
ended27th Mar
1984
last rptMar
1985(end date approximate)
3 school years
episodes10
duration20 mins
subject
🏫Miscellany
age rangeAge 9-11
languageenIn English
Pieces of Eight is an ITV schools TV series from the 1980s, covering various topics for primary school pupils.
- series linking language (in the first four programmes) and music (in the next four) in the primary school; when the series was reshown in spring 1984 two more episodes were added covering creative dance
- broadcast in the Grampian, Scottish and Border regions as well as Ulster, but on a separate schedule and the two dance episodes were never shown outside of Northern Ireland
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