Zig Zag: Art

📺BBC Schools TV

companyBBC Wales

started12th May 1997

ended9th Jun 1997

last rpt26th Apr 2007on CBBC

11 school years

episodes4

duration20 mins

subject 🎨Art

age rangeAge 7-9

languageenIn English

currentsequence: ; ### size: ### Zig Zag/Art: Zig ZagPrevious unit: Making It WorkNext unit: Invaders

Art is a unit of the BBC Schools TV series Zig Zag from the 1990s & 2000s, covering art for primary school pupils.

Footage of children at work on art projects both in their classrooms and out in the world, plus meetings with professional artists, to inspire viewers to develop their own art work.

Episode List

#	Title	Broadcast
1.	Light, Dark and Tone	#1997-05-12-00-00-0012 May 1997
2.	Line and Shape and Form	#1997-05-19-00-00-0019 May 1997
3.	Colour	#1997-06-02-00-00-002 Jun 1997
4.	Pattern and Texture	#1997-06-09-00-00-009 Jun 1997

Broadcasts

Year	Term	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Channel	Details
1996-97	Summer 1997	Monday, 11:10am		Wednesday, 1:25pm			BBC2
1997-98	Summer 1998		Tuesday, 11:15am				BBC2
1999-2000	Summer 2000					Friday, 10:50am	BBC2
2000-01	Summer 2001				Thursday, 11:50am		BBC2
2001-02	Summer 2002					Friday, 11:50am	BBC2
2002-03	Autumn 2002	Monday, 12:10pm					BBC2
	Summer 2003		Tuesday, 11:10am				BBC2

Learning Zone

Also broadcast overnight for block recording in BBC2's Learning Zone broadcasts, from 2:00am on Tuesday 22nd September in Autumn 1998.

CBBC Channel

Also broadcast on the CBBC Channel 'Class TV' service of schools programmes:

• 2001-02: Summer 2002
• 2003-04: Summer 2004
• 2004-05: Summer 2005
• 2005-06: Autumn 2005
• 2006-07: Summer 2007

Credits

Music	Nicholas Hooper
Education Officer	Chris Hughes
Art consultants	Nigel Meager Julian Davies
Series Producer	Peter M. Evans
Executive Producer	Elizabeth Cleaver for BBC Education Dai Williams
Producer	Elaine Mullings

Resources

There were teacher's notes, a resource pack and a Video Plus pack available.

Links

• BBC Programmes page for Art

Zig Zag (1983-2000)

Series Overview • Units • Episode List

Ancient Greece (1996) • The Anglo-Saxons (1992) • The Arabs (1984) • Art (1997) • Canada (1987) • Cathedrals (1989) • The Channel Tunnel (1987) • Computers (1983) • Danger Detectors (1996) • The Eskimos (1985) • Food and Farming (1995) • France (2000) • Gardens and Growth (1985) • Geography UK (1995) • Getting About (1988) • The Greeks (1986) • Hungry Times (1983) • Invaders (1997) • Kenya (1994-96) • Let's Face It (1990) • Making It Work (1997) • Mapmakers! (1993) • Mordicus (1986) • The Normans (1983) • The Odyssey (1990) • The Olympics (1984-92) • Over to You (1985-89) • Roman Britain (1993) • Rush, The Fallow Deer (1987) • The Saga of Gunnar Goldhair (1987) • Snapshots: Children in the Second World War (2000) • Space (1984-88) • Spaceship Earth (1986) • Tales from Europe (1992) • Tales from Europe (2000) • Technology (1991) • Topical Programmes (1985-89) • Trees (1993) • Trees and Man (1991) • Tudor Life (1998) • The Vikings (1987) • Village, Town, City (1997) • A Walk Through Time (1999) • Water (1990) • Water, Air, Land (1998) • Weather (1999) • Where You Live, Where I Live (1994) • Wildlife Safari (1989-91) • Winter Festival (1986) • World of Work (1989) • You and the Media (1986)

See also: Zig Zag Shorts • Landmarks • Primary Geography • Primary History

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