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Transcript: It's Time to Play Schools
Jojo and Gran Gran.
Descriptive Transcript
[Text reads] B.B.C.
DESCRIPTION: An illustration shows a little girl with black hair holding a stuffed toy panda and an older woman with grey hair.
SONG: Jojo and Gran Gran.
[Uplifting music plays]
DESCRIPTION: In an animated world, a door opens, revealing JoJo’s mummy, a woman with tightly braided black hair, and her daddy, a man with short black hair, a neatly trimmed beard, and glasses. JoJo’s parents smile.
SONG: Take my hand and come with me.
DESCRIPTION: Jojo runs outside with Panda and takes Gran Gran’s hand.
SONG: On a journey through our streets.
DESCRIPTION: Jojo and Gran Gran walk down a city sidewalk. They wave to Ned, a bearded man walking with Monty, his small dog.
SONG: We'll say hello to everybody that we meet.
DESCRIPTION: Ned waves before Monty pulls him away. On a rainy day, Jojo and Gran Gran wear raincoats and carry umbrellas.
SONG: Through the year, as seasons change, exploring every day, we take our time to stop and play.
DESCRIPTION: Jojo and Gran Gran jump in puddles. On a sunny day, they walk into a park. A red double-decker bus passes by the park.
SONG: And when the springtime blossom turns to summer sun, Jojo likes to get outside, Gran Gran always makes it fun!
DESCRIPTION: On another day, Jojo and Gran Gran roll down a grassy hill. In the fall, Jojo throws leaves in the air.
SONG: When the autumn rainfall turns to winter snow, I know a special place, a place where we can go.
DESCRIPTION: In the winter, Jarrod, a black-haired man with a neatly trimmed beard, makes a snowman. He waves as Jojo and Gran Gran walk by in their winter coats. In the Spring, Gran Gran’s grey-haired neighbour, Cynthia, waters the flowers in her front garden. Jojo and Gran Gran wave on their way to Gran Gran’s house.
SONG: Take my hand, we're heading home with Jojo and Gran Gran.
DESCRIPTION: JoJo and Gran Gran walk to Gran Gran’s front door.
[Title] Jojo and Gran Gran.
[Title] It’s Time to Play Schools.
JOJO: It’s time to play schools.
[Opening Credits] Written by Gemma Weekes.
[Gentle music plays, birds chirp, footsteps rustle]
DESCRIPTION: In the park, a woman and an orange-haired boy watch ducks swim in the pond. Gran Gran, JoJo, and Lexi walk to a bridge over the pond and stop.
GRAN GRAN NARRATES: It was an autumn afternoon. The leaves were changing colour and falling from the trees. And JoJo and Gran Gran, that's me, had just picked up Cousin Lexi from school.
[The music stops]
LEXI: Thank you for picking me up, Gran Gran.
GRAN GRAN: Oh, you're welcome, Lexi. It's a real treat for us.
JOJO: Who usually picks you up after school?
LEXI: Daddy! But he got held up at work today. Which means... we get to play together at Gran Gran's!
[Footsteps patter, upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Lexi and JoJo run over the bridge, and Gran Gran follows.
CHILDREN CHEER: Yay!
[Everyone laughs]
GRAN GRAN: And when we get home, I'd like to hear all about your day.
JOJO: Yes! We want to know everything about school! Don't we, Panda?
[Whoosh, cheerful music plays]
DESCRIPTION: In live-action, in a blue room, a girl with long, tightly braided brown hair sits beside a girl with braided black hair and two pigtails. The first girl wears a dark blue shirt, and the second girl wears a pink shirt with a horse pattern.
GIRL WITH BRAIDS: I love school because I get to play with my friends, and I get to study more, so I can be more smart.
DESCRIPTION: In a living room, a girl with long blonde hair wears a fruit-patterned shirt.
BLONDE-HAIRED GIRL: When I arrive at school, I have to hang my coat up.
DESCRIPTION: In a living room, a boy with tightly braided brown hair wears a blue shirt.
BROWN-HAIRED BOY: My teacher takes a register to check if everyone's here.
DESCRIPTION: In a kitchen, two girls sit together. The younger girl has her curly, dark brown hair in a ponytail on one side of her head and wears a white hooded sweater with colourful dots. The older girl has her long, dark brown hair pulled back and wears a green sweater with a colourful collar.
BROWN-HAIRED GIRL: We do art at school.
GIRL WITH SIDE PONYTAIL: And drawing.
DESCRIPTION: In the living room, the brown-haired boy sits in front of plants.
BROWN-HAIRED BOY: I love school because we get to learn about maths, and math is my favourite subject.
DESCRIPTION: In a living room, a girl and a boy sit together. The girl wears her brown hair twisted into a bun and a floral blouse. The boy has short brown hair and wears a grey, red, and yellow shirt with large eyes on the front.
GIRL WITH A BUN: Some people learn at home, and it's called homeschooling.
DESCRIPTION: In a dining room, a boy with short dark brown hair wears a colourful shirt with houses and rainbows. Beside him, a girl with long, dark brown hair in pigtails wears a bright green, striped shirt with two flamingo heads.
SHORT-HAIRED BOY: At lunch time, we eat in the lunch hall.
DESCRIPTION: In their living room, the girl with the bun and the boy with eyes on his shirt sit together.
GIRL WITH A BUN: Some people at my school have packed lunches, but I have a hot dinner.
DESCRIPTION: In their kitchen, the brown-haired girl and the girl with the ponytail on the side smile at each other.
BROWN-HAIRED GIRL: We sit together at lunch sometimes.
[Both girls giggle]
DESCRIPTION: In the dining room, the short-haired boy and the girl with pigtails sit together.
SHORT-HAIRED BOY: In playtime, we play outside.
DESCRIPTION: In a kitchen, a girl wears her long brown hair pulled away from her face. She wears a dark blue sweater over a pink shirt. A boy with short black hair stands beside her, wearing an orange jacket and a grey-and-green shirt.
BLACK-HAIRED BOY: In our playground, we have some monkey bars, and we have some footballs, to play football.
DESCRIPTION: In her living room, the girl with long blonde hair wears the fruit-patterned shirt.
BLONDE-HAIRED GIRL: At the end of school, Mister shouts get your coats and bags. That's how we know it's home time.
[JoJo and Lexi laugh, bags rustle]
DESCRIPTION: Back in Gran Gran’s house, JoJo and Lexi carry their bags into the living room and put them down.
LEXI: What shall we play, JoJo?
JOJO: Hm...
[She gasps]
JOJO: We could play...Super Panda!
[Heroic music plays]
DESCRIPTION: JoJo holds Panda in front of her and runs around the room.
JOJO: Whoosh! Wheee!
LEXI: Or...Panda and the Super Slide!
[Paper rustles, both laugh, Panda thumps]
DESCRIPTION: Lexi puts her bag on the couch, and she and JoJo slide Panda down the front. A paper with pictures of analogue clocks displaying different times slips out of the bag and falls to the ground with Panda.
JOJO: Whoa, what's this, Lexi?
LEXI: Ooh, that's what we're learning at school. It helps you tell the time.
DESCRIPTION: Gran Gran arrives behind Lexi.
GRAN GRAN: I remember learning how to tell the time when I was at school.
[Paper rustles]
DESCRIPTION: Lexi picks up the paper.
LEXI: It's quite tricky, but my teacher helps me.
JOJO: What else do you do at school?
LEXI: Lots!
JOJO: Can we go and see?
[Paper rustles, triumphant music plays]
GRAN GRAN: Hm... I think Lexi's teacher will have gone home by now. But... I think it's time for a Gran Gran plan. We can play schools instead!
CHILDREN CHEER: Yay!
[Upbeat music plays, table thumps, papers tap]
DESCRIPTION: Gran Gran, Lexi, and JoJo move a table into the centre of the room. They put paper and crayons on the table and three cushions on the carpet around it. On a piece of paper, JoJo draws a picture of herself beside her name. They affix the paper to a cabinet drawer beside Lexi’s drawing, above Gran Gran’s picture and name and a picture of Panda on the drawer below.
JOJO: JoJo!
LEXI: Lexi!
GRAN GRAN: Gran Gran!
JOJO: Panda!
DESCRIPTION: Hugo the red toy T. rex’s picture appears on the bottom drawer, beside a drawing of Captain Chloe.
LEXI: Hugo!
GRAN GRAN: Captain Chloe!
[Upbeat music continues, board clatters, paper rustles, JoJo squees]
DESCRIPTION: On the carpet, stuffed animals sit on pillows and pots around overturned boxes. Gran Gran puts a toy whiteboard near the table. Drawings of Captain Chloe hang from a shelf edge on the cabinet.
JOJO AND LEXI: Yay!
[The music stops, marker squeaks, Lexi clears her throat]
DESCRIPTION: Lexi writes her name on the whiteboard. Gran Gran and JoJo sit on cushions by the table.
LEXI: Hello, class, my name is Lexi.
JOJO: Hello, Lexi.
[Gran Gran laughs]
GRAN GRAN: Hi, Lexi!
[Light music plays]
LEXI: I am your teacher. Today we're going to learn all about school.
JOJO: Yes!
GRAN GRAN: Ooh! Can't wait!
LEXI: If you would like to ask a question, please put your hand up. Like this.
DESCRIPTION: Lexi holds up her hand. JoJo lifts Panda’s paw.
LEXI: Yes, Panda?
DESCRIPTION: JoJo kneels beside Panda, leans down, and nods.
JOJO: Panda would like to know what you do at school.
LEXI: Ooh! Good question, Panda. We do lots of things at school.
[Upbeat music plays, paper rustles]
DESCRIPTION: On a piece of paper, JoJo traces her name on dotted lines.
LEXI: Learning to write.
DESCRIPTION: JoJo and Lexi lift the paper.
BOTH CHEER: Yay!
LEXI: Science.
[Whistle blares, JoJo giggles, Hugo squeaks]
DESCRIPTION: In the backyard, JoJo and Lexi each stand at the top of a sloped board propped up on overturned pots. JoJo stands behind the steeper board, holding Panda. Lexi holds Hugo beside the other slope. Gran Gran stands behind them and blows a whistle. Panda and Hugo each ride a roller skate down their slope, and Panda crosses a skipping rope finish line first.
JOJO: Yes! Panda got there first!
DESCRIPTION: In the living room, Gran holds a Captain Chloe book, with JoJo and Lexi on the couch beside her.
LEXI: Reading!
[Cutlery clinks]
DESCRIPTION: Gran Gran takes a knife off a tray, JoJo picks up a spoon, and Lexi takes a fork.
LEXI: Counting.
[JoJo giggles]
DESCRIPTION: Each puts their cutlery on the table.
JOJO: One, two, three!
LEXI: Drawing.
DESCRIPTION: At the table, Lexi, JoJo, and Gran Gran draw self-portraits.
JOJO: We need to draw Panda!
DESCRIPTION: JoJo draws Panda.
LEXI: And Hugo!
[Paper rustles, Hugo squeaks]
DESCRIPTION: Lexi draws Hugo. They each hold their Panda and Hugo drawings next to their toys. Panda slumps, and Hugo falls forward onto the table.
LEXI: And we do music too.
[Ukelele and maraca music plays, whoosh, the music stops]
DESCRIPTION: In the backyard, Gran Gran holds a ukulele, and JoJo and Lexi hold maracas. Toys are set up on the grass with a tambourine, xylophone, bells, and a triangle. Back in the living room, JoJo, Lexi, and Gran Gran sit around the table.
GRAN GRAN: Oh, Lexi! That was even more fun than when I was at school.
LEXI: Would you like to be the teacher now, JoJo?
JOJO: But I don't know what to teach. I haven't been to school, like you and Gran Gran.
[Light music plays]
GRAN GRAN: Oh, well, we can learn from anyone, JoJo. And I think there's someone you can teach us a lot about.
[JoJo gasps]
DESCRIPTION: JoJo looks at her Panda drawing.
JOJO: Panda!
[Whoosh, light music plays]
DESCRIPTION: JoJo holds Panda and stands beside the whiteboard with her name on it.
[The music stops, light music notes play]
JOJO: Hello, class, my name is JoJo, and I am your teacher. Today, we're going to learn all about my friend, Panda!
LEXI AND GRAN GRAN CHEER: Yay!
LEXI: Whoo!
GRAN GRAN: Whoo-whoo!
JOJO: If you would like to ask a question, please put your hand up, like this.
DESCRIPTION: JoJo raises her hand, and then Lexi raises hers.
LEXI: Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh!
JOJO: Yes, Lexi?
LEXI: How old is Panda?
JOJO: Panda is almost as old as me, because I've had Panda since I was a baby.
DESCRIPTION: Lexi raises her hand.
LEXI: Ooh!
JOJO: Yes, Lexi?
LEXI: What is Panda's favourite colour?
JOJO: Purple!
DESCRIPTION: Gran Gran raises her hand.
GRAN GRAN: Ah!
[JoJo chuckles]
JOJO: Do you have a question, Gran Gran?
GRAN GRAN: I would love to know what Panda's favourite food is.
JOJO: Hm...
[Light music plays]
DESCRIPTION: JoJo puts her ear beside Panda’s mouth.
JOJO: Panda's favourite food is... Macaroni pie!
GRAN GRAN: Oh-ho!
[The music stops]
JOJO: The way Gran Gran makes it.
GRAN GRAN: Aw...
DESCRIPTION: JoJo puts Panda on the table and picks up Hugo and her Captain Chloe book.
JOJO: And Panda also likes Captain Chloe books and playing with Hugo, the dinosaur.
[Doorbell rings]
GRAN GRAN: Oh! That must be Uncle Tyrell!
[Hugo squeaks]
DESCRIPTION: JoJo puts Hugo and the book on the table.
LEXI: And that means it's home time!
[Light music plays]
JOJO: Thank you for coming to school, everybody.
[JoJo giggles]
LEXI: And thank you to our new teacher...JoJo!
DESCRIPTION: Lexi hugs JoJo, and Gran Gran claps.
GRAN GRAN CHEERS: Yay!
[Whoosh, upbeat music plays, background chatter]
DESCRIPTION: A brown-haired girl holds her mommy’s hand as they walk on a sidewalk. The girl has her hair in a ponytail, wears a dark blue coat, and holds a bag. Her mommy has long brown hair and wears a striped jacket, a white shirt, and brown pants.
GIRL WITH PONYTAIL: My mommy is taking me to school.
GIRL’S MOMMY: Wow...Okay, enjoy your day!
[Smooch]
BOTH: Bye...!
DESCRIPTION: The girl’s mommy kisses her cheek, and the girl waves. She skips to the school doors. In a playground, a boy and a girl run to her. The blonde-haired girl holds her hand, and the blond-haired boy walks beside them with his hands in his jacket pockets.
GIRL WITH PONYTAIL: Hello, Harvey.
[Children chatter]
DESCRIPTION: In the classroom cloakroom, the girl with the ponytail hangs her coat on a hook below her name, Isabelle. She puts her water bottle on a tray filled with water bottles.
ISABELLE NARRATES: I get to see my friends at school. This is where we put our coats. I'm hanging my coat on my peg. I'm putting my water bottle in the tray.
DESCRIPTION: In the classroom, Miss Bradley, a woman with long, wavy brown hair, scrolls on a laptop computer at her desk. She wears a black shirt and a black skirt. The class sits on a carpet in front of her and a screen.
ISABELLE NARRATES: Miss Bradley is my class teacher. She's taken the register to check who's here today.
MISS BRADLEY: Good morning, Harvey.
HARVEY: Good morning.
MISS BRADLEY: Good morning, Isabelle.
ISABELLE: Good morning.
DESCRIPTION: At a long table, Isabelle puts red plastic chips on a card.
ISABELLE NARRATES: This morning, we're learning about numbers.
DESCRIPTION: On the screen, a blond-haired boy with shaved sides moves dots between two grids. An equation above the grids reads, “eight plus seven equals.” In a cafeteria, a worker ladles gravy over potatoes.
ISABELLE NARRATES: It's lunchtime!
DESCRIPTION: A worker gives Isabelle a tray with fish fingers and fries. Isabelle smiles.
ISABELLE NARRATES: I'm having fish fingers. Mm, yummy.
[Students chatter, laugh]
DESCRIPTION: The students sit at tables and eat their lunches. In the playground, the blonde-haired girl turns a hula hoop and skips. A tall girl chases Isabelle past a play structure.
ISABELLE NARRATES: After lunch, we have playtime outside. I love playing with my friends.
[Whistle blares]
DESCRIPTION: A teacher blows a whistle, and children run across the playground. In the school library, Isabelle sits in front of a bookshelf with three students. Miss Bradley shows them words and letter combinations on cards.
ISABELLE NARRATES: The whistle means playtime is over. Now it's time to learn sounds.
ALL: "Ow, brown cow." "Aw, yawn at dawn."
[Children chatter, upbeat music continues]
DESCRIPTION: In the classroom, a boy with short brown hair looks at a vase with flowers and fills in the missing half of a drawing of half a sunflower. Isabelle draws petals on the partial sunflower picture.
ISABELLE NARRATES: I love drawing, and today we're drawing some flowers.
ISABELLE NARRATES: And painting them.
DESCRIPTION: The brown-haired boy carefully paints the petals yellow. Isabelle sits beside Harvey and paints her petals yellow. A student peers at a grid through a magnifying glass; Isabelle builds a magnetic tile tower with a short-haired boy; Harvey reads a book beside a teacher; and Isabelle holds the end of a toy stethoscope against a boy’s chest.
ISABELLE NARRATES: We get to do lots of different things at school. Building, reading, and playing.
DESCRIPTION: A girl with a ponytail and the boy with the shaved blond hair look at a globe beside a book open to a world map.
BOY WITH SHAVED BLOND HAIR: South America!
DESCRIPTION: In the nearly empty cloakroom, Isabelle takes her coat off the hook and puts it on.
ISABELLE NARRATES: After a busy day, it's home time.
DESCRIPTION: Isabelle and Miss Bradley wave to each other as Isabelle leaves the school.
MISS BRADLEY: Bye, Isabelle!
ISABELLE: Bye, Miss Bradley!
MISS BRADLEY: See ya later!
DESCRIPTION: Isabelle runs to her daddy, who has long blond hair and wears a green jacket. He bends down and hugs her.
ISABELLE: Daddy...! Daddy's here. I love going to school.
[Whoosh]
DESCRIPTION: Back in Gran Gran’s living room, Gran Gran sits on the couch with Jojo.
JOJO: Does everybody go to school, Gran Gran?
GRAN GRAN: Oh, not everybody. Some children are taught at home.
[Light music plays]
JOJO: You would be the best teacher, Gran Gran! Because you know everything!
[Gran Gran chuckles]
GRAN GRAN: Well, I didn't know Panda's favourite food was macaroni pie.
JOJO: But you do now!
[Gran Gran laughs]
GRAN GRAN: You see? We can learn from everyone.
JOJO: I love you, Gran Gran.
DESCRIPTION: JoJo and Gran Gran hug.
GRAN GRAN: And I love you too, JoJo.
[Gentle, uplifting music plays]
[End credits] JoJo, Taiya Samuel. Gran Gran, Cathy Tyson. Lexi, Sofia Lotsu. Music by Joss Peach, Jamie Salisbury, Ellie Wyatt. Theme sung by Sharlene Hector. Based on Characters Created by and Associate Producer Laura Henry-Allain. Producer Charlotte Bushell. Executive Producers: Tony Reed, Ros Attille. Series Producers Tom Cousins, Angela Young. Series Director Ben Halliwell. Episode Director Comfort Arthur.
Logo: Jojo & Gran Gran.
[End credits] Produced in association with A.P. Productions. B.B.C. Studios Kids and Family Productions for B.B.C. C Beebies. Copyright B.B.C. 2023. Distributed by B.B.C. Studios.
Descriptive Transcript
[Text reads] B.B.C.
DESCRIPTION: An illustration shows a little girl with black hair holding a stuffed toy panda and an older woman with grey hair.
SONG: Jojo and Gran Gran.
[Uplifting music plays]
DESCRIPTION: In an animated world, a door opens, revealing JoJo’s mummy, a woman with tightly braided black hair, and her daddy, a man with short black hair, a neatly trimmed beard, and glasses. JoJo’s parents smile.
SONG: Take my hand and come with me.
DESCRIPTION: Jojo runs outside with Panda and takes Gran Gran’s hand.
SONG: On a journey through our streets.
DESCRIPTION: Jojo and Gran Gran walk down a city sidewalk. They wave to Ned, a bearded man walking with Monty, his small dog.
SONG: We'll say hello to everybody that we meet.
DESCRIPTION: Ned waves before Monty pulls him away. On a rainy day, Jojo and Gran Gran wear raincoats and carry umbrellas.
SONG: Through the year, as seasons change, exploring every day, we take our time to stop and play.
DESCRIPTION: Jojo and Gran Gran jump in puddles. On a sunny day, they walk into a park. A red double-decker bus passes by the park.
SONG: And when the springtime blossom turns to summer sun, Jojo likes to get outside, Gran Gran always makes it fun!
DESCRIPTION: On another day, Jojo and Gran Gran roll down a grassy hill. In the fall, Jojo throws leaves in the air.
SONG: When the autumn rainfall turns to winter snow, I know a special place, a place where we can go.
DESCRIPTION: In the winter, Jarrod, a black-haired man with a neatly trimmed beard, makes a snowman. He waves as Jojo and Gran Gran walk by in their winter coats. In the Spring, Gran Gran’s grey-haired neighbour, Cynthia, waters the flowers in her front garden. Jojo and Gran Gran wave on their way to Gran Gran’s house.
SONG: Take my hand, we're heading home with Jojo and Gran Gran.
DESCRIPTION: JoJo and Gran Gran walk to Gran Gran’s front door.
[Title] Jojo and Gran Gran.
[Title] It’s Time to Play Schools.
JOJO: It’s time to play schools.
[Opening Credits] Written by Gemma Weekes.
[Gentle music plays, birds chirp, footsteps rustle]
DESCRIPTION: In the park, a woman and an orange-haired boy watch ducks swim in the pond. Gran Gran, JoJo, and Lexi walk to a bridge over the pond and stop.
GRAN GRAN NARRATES: It was an autumn afternoon. The leaves were changing colour and falling from the trees. And JoJo and Gran Gran, that's me, had just picked up Cousin Lexi from school.
[The music stops]
LEXI: Thank you for picking me up, Gran Gran.
GRAN GRAN: Oh, you're welcome, Lexi. It's a real treat for us.
JOJO: Who usually picks you up after school?
LEXI: Daddy! But he got held up at work today. Which means... we get to play together at Gran Gran's!
[Footsteps patter, upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Lexi and JoJo run over the bridge, and Gran Gran follows.
CHILDREN CHEER: Yay!
[Everyone laughs]
GRAN GRAN: And when we get home, I'd like to hear all about your day.
JOJO: Yes! We want to know everything about school! Don't we, Panda?
[Whoosh, cheerful music plays]
DESCRIPTION: In live-action, in a blue room, a girl with long, tightly braided brown hair sits beside a girl with braided black hair and two pigtails. The first girl wears a dark blue shirt, and the second girl wears a pink shirt with a horse pattern.
GIRL WITH BRAIDS: I love school because I get to play with my friends, and I get to study more, so I can be more smart.
DESCRIPTION: In a living room, a girl with long blonde hair wears a fruit-patterned shirt.
BLONDE-HAIRED GIRL: When I arrive at school, I have to hang my coat up.
DESCRIPTION: In a living room, a boy with tightly braided brown hair wears a blue shirt.
BROWN-HAIRED BOY: My teacher takes a register to check if everyone's here.
DESCRIPTION: In a kitchen, two girls sit together. The younger girl has her curly, dark brown hair in a ponytail on one side of her head and wears a white hooded sweater with colourful dots. The older girl has her long, dark brown hair pulled back and wears a green sweater with a colourful collar.
BROWN-HAIRED GIRL: We do art at school.
GIRL WITH SIDE PONYTAIL: And drawing.
DESCRIPTION: In the living room, the brown-haired boy sits in front of plants.
BROWN-HAIRED BOY: I love school because we get to learn about maths, and math is my favourite subject.
DESCRIPTION: In a living room, a girl and a boy sit together. The girl wears her brown hair twisted into a bun and a floral blouse. The boy has short brown hair and wears a grey, red, and yellow shirt with large eyes on the front.
GIRL WITH A BUN: Some people learn at home, and it's called homeschooling.
DESCRIPTION: In a dining room, a boy with short dark brown hair wears a colourful shirt with houses and rainbows. Beside him, a girl with long, dark brown hair in pigtails wears a bright green, striped shirt with two flamingo heads.
SHORT-HAIRED BOY: At lunch time, we eat in the lunch hall.
DESCRIPTION: In their living room, the girl with the bun and the boy with eyes on his shirt sit together.
GIRL WITH A BUN: Some people at my school have packed lunches, but I have a hot dinner.
DESCRIPTION: In their kitchen, the brown-haired girl and the girl with the ponytail on the side smile at each other.
BROWN-HAIRED GIRL: We sit together at lunch sometimes.
[Both girls giggle]
DESCRIPTION: In the dining room, the short-haired boy and the girl with pigtails sit together.
SHORT-HAIRED BOY: In playtime, we play outside.
DESCRIPTION: In a kitchen, a girl wears her long brown hair pulled away from her face. She wears a dark blue sweater over a pink shirt. A boy with short black hair stands beside her, wearing an orange jacket and a grey-and-green shirt.
BLACK-HAIRED BOY: In our playground, we have some monkey bars, and we have some footballs, to play football.
DESCRIPTION: In her living room, the girl with long blonde hair wears the fruit-patterned shirt.
BLONDE-HAIRED GIRL: At the end of school, Mister shouts get your coats and bags. That's how we know it's home time.
[JoJo and Lexi laugh, bags rustle]
DESCRIPTION: Back in Gran Gran’s house, JoJo and Lexi carry their bags into the living room and put them down.
LEXI: What shall we play, JoJo?
JOJO: Hm...
[She gasps]
JOJO: We could play...Super Panda!
[Heroic music plays]
DESCRIPTION: JoJo holds Panda in front of her and runs around the room.
JOJO: Whoosh! Wheee!
LEXI: Or...Panda and the Super Slide!
[Paper rustles, both laugh, Panda thumps]
DESCRIPTION: Lexi puts her bag on the couch, and she and JoJo slide Panda down the front. A paper with pictures of analogue clocks displaying different times slips out of the bag and falls to the ground with Panda.
JOJO: Whoa, what's this, Lexi?
LEXI: Ooh, that's what we're learning at school. It helps you tell the time.
DESCRIPTION: Gran Gran arrives behind Lexi.
GRAN GRAN: I remember learning how to tell the time when I was at school.
[Paper rustles]
DESCRIPTION: Lexi picks up the paper.
LEXI: It's quite tricky, but my teacher helps me.
JOJO: What else do you do at school?
LEXI: Lots!
JOJO: Can we go and see?
[Paper rustles, triumphant music plays]
GRAN GRAN: Hm... I think Lexi's teacher will have gone home by now. But... I think it's time for a Gran Gran plan. We can play schools instead!
CHILDREN CHEER: Yay!
[Upbeat music plays, table thumps, papers tap]
DESCRIPTION: Gran Gran, Lexi, and JoJo move a table into the centre of the room. They put paper and crayons on the table and three cushions on the carpet around it. On a piece of paper, JoJo draws a picture of herself beside her name. They affix the paper to a cabinet drawer beside Lexi’s drawing, above Gran Gran’s picture and name and a picture of Panda on the drawer below.
JOJO: JoJo!
LEXI: Lexi!
GRAN GRAN: Gran Gran!
JOJO: Panda!
DESCRIPTION: Hugo the red toy T. rex’s picture appears on the bottom drawer, beside a drawing of Captain Chloe.
LEXI: Hugo!
GRAN GRAN: Captain Chloe!
[Upbeat music continues, board clatters, paper rustles, JoJo squees]
DESCRIPTION: On the carpet, stuffed animals sit on pillows and pots around overturned boxes. Gran Gran puts a toy whiteboard near the table. Drawings of Captain Chloe hang from a shelf edge on the cabinet.
JOJO AND LEXI: Yay!
[The music stops, marker squeaks, Lexi clears her throat]
DESCRIPTION: Lexi writes her name on the whiteboard. Gran Gran and JoJo sit on cushions by the table.
LEXI: Hello, class, my name is Lexi.
JOJO: Hello, Lexi.
[Gran Gran laughs]
GRAN GRAN: Hi, Lexi!
[Light music plays]
LEXI: I am your teacher. Today we're going to learn all about school.
JOJO: Yes!
GRAN GRAN: Ooh! Can't wait!
LEXI: If you would like to ask a question, please put your hand up. Like this.
DESCRIPTION: Lexi holds up her hand. JoJo lifts Panda’s paw.
LEXI: Yes, Panda?
DESCRIPTION: JoJo kneels beside Panda, leans down, and nods.
JOJO: Panda would like to know what you do at school.
LEXI: Ooh! Good question, Panda. We do lots of things at school.
[Upbeat music plays, paper rustles]
DESCRIPTION: On a piece of paper, JoJo traces her name on dotted lines.
LEXI: Learning to write.
DESCRIPTION: JoJo and Lexi lift the paper.
BOTH CHEER: Yay!
LEXI: Science.
[Whistle blares, JoJo giggles, Hugo squeaks]
DESCRIPTION: In the backyard, JoJo and Lexi each stand at the top of a sloped board propped up on overturned pots. JoJo stands behind the steeper board, holding Panda. Lexi holds Hugo beside the other slope. Gran Gran stands behind them and blows a whistle. Panda and Hugo each ride a roller skate down their slope, and Panda crosses a skipping rope finish line first.
JOJO: Yes! Panda got there first!
DESCRIPTION: In the living room, Gran holds a Captain Chloe book, with JoJo and Lexi on the couch beside her.
LEXI: Reading!
[Cutlery clinks]
DESCRIPTION: Gran Gran takes a knife off a tray, JoJo picks up a spoon, and Lexi takes a fork.
LEXI: Counting.
[JoJo giggles]
DESCRIPTION: Each puts their cutlery on the table.
JOJO: One, two, three!
LEXI: Drawing.
DESCRIPTION: At the table, Lexi, JoJo, and Gran Gran draw self-portraits.
JOJO: We need to draw Panda!
DESCRIPTION: JoJo draws Panda.
LEXI: And Hugo!
[Paper rustles, Hugo squeaks]
DESCRIPTION: Lexi draws Hugo. They each hold their Panda and Hugo drawings next to their toys. Panda slumps, and Hugo falls forward onto the table.
LEXI: And we do music too.
[Ukelele and maraca music plays, whoosh, the music stops]
DESCRIPTION: In the backyard, Gran Gran holds a ukulele, and JoJo and Lexi hold maracas. Toys are set up on the grass with a tambourine, xylophone, bells, and a triangle. Back in the living room, JoJo, Lexi, and Gran Gran sit around the table.
GRAN GRAN: Oh, Lexi! That was even more fun than when I was at school.
LEXI: Would you like to be the teacher now, JoJo?
JOJO: But I don't know what to teach. I haven't been to school, like you and Gran Gran.
[Light music plays]
GRAN GRAN: Oh, well, we can learn from anyone, JoJo. And I think there's someone you can teach us a lot about.
[JoJo gasps]
DESCRIPTION: JoJo looks at her Panda drawing.
JOJO: Panda!
[Whoosh, light music plays]
DESCRIPTION: JoJo holds Panda and stands beside the whiteboard with her name on it.
[The music stops, light music notes play]
JOJO: Hello, class, my name is JoJo, and I am your teacher. Today, we're going to learn all about my friend, Panda!
LEXI AND GRAN GRAN CHEER: Yay!
LEXI: Whoo!
GRAN GRAN: Whoo-whoo!
JOJO: If you would like to ask a question, please put your hand up, like this.
DESCRIPTION: JoJo raises her hand, and then Lexi raises hers.
LEXI: Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh!
JOJO: Yes, Lexi?
LEXI: How old is Panda?
JOJO: Panda is almost as old as me, because I've had Panda since I was a baby.
DESCRIPTION: Lexi raises her hand.
LEXI: Ooh!
JOJO: Yes, Lexi?
LEXI: What is Panda's favourite colour?
JOJO: Purple!
DESCRIPTION: Gran Gran raises her hand.
GRAN GRAN: Ah!
[JoJo chuckles]
JOJO: Do you have a question, Gran Gran?
GRAN GRAN: I would love to know what Panda's favourite food is.
JOJO: Hm...
[Light music plays]
DESCRIPTION: JoJo puts her ear beside Panda’s mouth.
JOJO: Panda's favourite food is... Macaroni pie!
GRAN GRAN: Oh-ho!
[The music stops]
JOJO: The way Gran Gran makes it.
GRAN GRAN: Aw...
DESCRIPTION: JoJo puts Panda on the table and picks up Hugo and her Captain Chloe book.
JOJO: And Panda also likes Captain Chloe books and playing with Hugo, the dinosaur.
[Doorbell rings]
GRAN GRAN: Oh! That must be Uncle Tyrell!
[Hugo squeaks]
DESCRIPTION: JoJo puts Hugo and the book on the table.
LEXI: And that means it's home time!
[Light music plays]
JOJO: Thank you for coming to school, everybody.
[JoJo giggles]
LEXI: And thank you to our new teacher...JoJo!
DESCRIPTION: Lexi hugs JoJo, and Gran Gran claps.
GRAN GRAN CHEERS: Yay!
[Whoosh, upbeat music plays, background chatter]
DESCRIPTION: A brown-haired girl holds her mommy’s hand as they walk on a sidewalk. The girl has her hair in a ponytail, wears a dark blue coat, and holds a bag. Her mommy has long brown hair and wears a striped jacket, a white shirt, and brown pants.
GIRL WITH PONYTAIL: My mommy is taking me to school.
GIRL’S MOMMY: Wow...Okay, enjoy your day!
[Smooch]
BOTH: Bye...!
DESCRIPTION: The girl’s mommy kisses her cheek, and the girl waves. She skips to the school doors. In a playground, a boy and a girl run to her. The blonde-haired girl holds her hand, and the blond-haired boy walks beside them with his hands in his jacket pockets.
GIRL WITH PONYTAIL: Hello, Harvey.
[Children chatter]
DESCRIPTION: In the classroom cloakroom, the girl with the ponytail hangs her coat on a hook below her name, Isabelle. She puts her water bottle on a tray filled with water bottles.
ISABELLE NARRATES: I get to see my friends at school. This is where we put our coats. I'm hanging my coat on my peg. I'm putting my water bottle in the tray.
DESCRIPTION: In the classroom, Miss Bradley, a woman with long, wavy brown hair, scrolls on a laptop computer at her desk. She wears a black shirt and a black skirt. The class sits on a carpet in front of her and a screen.
ISABELLE NARRATES: Miss Bradley is my class teacher. She's taken the register to check who's here today.
MISS BRADLEY: Good morning, Harvey.
HARVEY: Good morning.
MISS BRADLEY: Good morning, Isabelle.
ISABELLE: Good morning.
DESCRIPTION: At a long table, Isabelle puts red plastic chips on a card.
ISABELLE NARRATES: This morning, we're learning about numbers.
DESCRIPTION: On the screen, a blond-haired boy with shaved sides moves dots between two grids. An equation above the grids reads, “eight plus seven equals.” In a cafeteria, a worker ladles gravy over potatoes.
ISABELLE NARRATES: It's lunchtime!
DESCRIPTION: A worker gives Isabelle a tray with fish fingers and fries. Isabelle smiles.
ISABELLE NARRATES: I'm having fish fingers. Mm, yummy.
[Students chatter, laugh]
DESCRIPTION: The students sit at tables and eat their lunches. In the playground, the blonde-haired girl turns a hula hoop and skips. A tall girl chases Isabelle past a play structure.
ISABELLE NARRATES: After lunch, we have playtime outside. I love playing with my friends.
[Whistle blares]
DESCRIPTION: A teacher blows a whistle, and children run across the playground. In the school library, Isabelle sits in front of a bookshelf with three students. Miss Bradley shows them words and letter combinations on cards.
ISABELLE NARRATES: The whistle means playtime is over. Now it's time to learn sounds.
ALL: "Ow, brown cow." "Aw, yawn at dawn."
[Children chatter, upbeat music continues]
DESCRIPTION: In the classroom, a boy with short brown hair looks at a vase with flowers and fills in the missing half of a drawing of half a sunflower. Isabelle draws petals on the partial sunflower picture.
ISABELLE NARRATES: I love drawing, and today we're drawing some flowers.
ISABELLE NARRATES: And painting them.
DESCRIPTION: The brown-haired boy carefully paints the petals yellow. Isabelle sits beside Harvey and paints her petals yellow. A student peers at a grid through a magnifying glass; Isabelle builds a magnetic tile tower with a short-haired boy; Harvey reads a book beside a teacher; and Isabelle holds the end of a toy stethoscope against a boy’s chest.
ISABELLE NARRATES: We get to do lots of different things at school. Building, reading, and playing.
DESCRIPTION: A girl with a ponytail and the boy with the shaved blond hair look at a globe beside a book open to a world map.
BOY WITH SHAVED BLOND HAIR: South America!
DESCRIPTION: In the nearly empty cloakroom, Isabelle takes her coat off the hook and puts it on.
ISABELLE NARRATES: After a busy day, it's home time.
DESCRIPTION: Isabelle and Miss Bradley wave to each other as Isabelle leaves the school.
MISS BRADLEY: Bye, Isabelle!
ISABELLE: Bye, Miss Bradley!
MISS BRADLEY: See ya later!
DESCRIPTION: Isabelle runs to her daddy, who has long blond hair and wears a green jacket. He bends down and hugs her.
ISABELLE: Daddy...! Daddy's here. I love going to school.
[Whoosh]
DESCRIPTION: Back in Gran Gran’s living room, Gran Gran sits on the couch with Jojo.
JOJO: Does everybody go to school, Gran Gran?
GRAN GRAN: Oh, not everybody. Some children are taught at home.
[Light music plays]
JOJO: You would be the best teacher, Gran Gran! Because you know everything!
[Gran Gran chuckles]
GRAN GRAN: Well, I didn't know Panda's favourite food was macaroni pie.
JOJO: But you do now!
[Gran Gran laughs]
GRAN GRAN: You see? We can learn from everyone.
JOJO: I love you, Gran Gran.
DESCRIPTION: JoJo and Gran Gran hug.
GRAN GRAN: And I love you too, JoJo.
[Gentle, uplifting music plays]
[End credits] JoJo, Taiya Samuel. Gran Gran, Cathy Tyson. Lexi, Sofia Lotsu. Music by Joss Peach, Jamie Salisbury, Ellie Wyatt. Theme sung by Sharlene Hector. Based on Characters Created by and Associate Producer Laura Henry-Allain. Producer Charlotte Bushell. Executive Producers: Tony Reed, Ros Attille. Series Producers Tom Cousins, Angela Young. Series Director Ben Halliwell. Episode Director Comfort Arthur.
Logo: Jojo & Gran Gran.
[End credits] Produced in association with A.P. Productions. B.B.C. Studios Kids and Family Productions for B.B.C. C Beebies. Copyright B.B.C. 2023. Distributed by B.B.C. Studios.
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