Whether they were the best days of your life or the worst, you never forget your school days...
does anyone remember those colourful singing books you got in Primary class and everyone had to sing along including the teacher?? I remember a couple of songs, one was about a russian called Boris?? could be way out with that one but i still remember it the other I have kinda tracked down...
I was wondering when physical punishment was stopped at school. My Junior School still used this until I left in 1971. Not all teachers did this and the only teacher that did this to me was a male teacher in the second year when I was 8. He used to whack you on the palm of the hand with a...
Do they still do harvest festivals in schools now? We all had to bring in some non-perishable goods and the name of an old person we thought deserved a bag of goodies (though what any pensioner would want with a tin of peas pudding that has been sitting in someone's cupboard for about 6 years I...
My junior school always put on a great event in the summer and there was usually a special guest to open it; an actor, or singer or football player. I would help my dad with the 'banging-the-nail-in' stall, (quite what Health & Safety would make of that these days, I dread to think), but it was the...
circa 1971/1972 primary school teaching aid. Consisted of a big (orange?) cardboard folder (about the size of a ring binder), that contained a load of words on small pieces of toughened paper. I'm sure there was a holder (a bit like the ones in Scrabble) that was used to build up sentences using...
Who can remember the teachers you loved and hated, what subjects did you love or hate and the fashion, tv programmes and the music you loved when you were at school, remember the school disco:D. from salemsmine.
Who can remember their final day at school? I can't remember much of my last day but part of it was spent picking litter up, then going into a class and just spending the day not doing much.
Did you love it or hate it??? It's that time of year again for our local schools. My son won a 3rd,2nd and 1st place today, they did the classic Egg and Spoon, a Dolly in a pram race, and going though the hoops, balancing bars etc. My Daughters is to be held on Thursday. I remember being in a...
Who remembers those bags you bought from school for swimming.Can remember a few colours bright orange,green,red and possible blue.They had a black pic on them,but the biggest memory was the smell....they stunk of the strongest rubber/plastic you can think of :eek:
Does anyone have any recollection of their school being used 'out of hours'? In the mid 70s, my mum used to go to my junior school once a week to play badminton. I remember it being very important to her. Then there was the famous school barn dance and beetle drive.
Did any of your teachers have nicknames? Heres a couple from my old school Harry Honda Mingy Murphy Big Joe Flannigan Mrs Mcharg ( Mchagg) Mr Kane ( Wee Stick) All fine^^^ :) Moderators edit please keep if fun and light hearted no nasty names and nothing that could be seen as...
Did anyone ever have anything really dramatic or alarming happen during their time at school? The fire bell sounded one day in secondary school and we all filed out thinking it was a drill. Then we looked up at the main block and saw smoke billowing out of a window. It transpired that one boy...
Don't think we've had a thread on this. Maybe there was a teacher you just adored in secondary, or perhaps it was the boy or girl in the next class in primary. When I was 11, it was kind of cool to have a girlfriend. This usually meant looking across the room at a girl and hoping I may be...
In the last year of Junior school, I was a 'tray monitor'. At lunchtimes, the kids would file passed the serving counters to collect their meals and then walk over to a vacant table. We monitors would collect the trays and put them back in the pile at the start of the queue. When everyone else had...
I have children that are going through school now and a lot of their homework is reading. I used to love reading the pirate books at school. Anyone remember these? There were different coloured pirates depending on your level of expertise. I remember getting excited going from one colour to...
Like maths? I didn't. Each morning our teacher would bark out about 50 times table questions which we had to write down the answers to, then she'd go around the class picking on people to read them out. If that wasn't enough we had the dreaded Scottish Primary Maths books. We were in...
Learning to read, what a palava. Our teacher had us come up to her desk one by one and would have a pile of words on cards that we would have to reel off. Hated it, especially the sneaky multi-word ones. Still remember freaking out when faced with the dreaded 'brush and comb' card. Anyway one...
One of my memories of my '80s schooldays was the scrolling blackboard. Two floor-to-ceiling lengths of wood hiding the runners on each side. There were three or four boards with a metal strip dividing each one, and one board always had the geometric grid lines in faded green, regardless of whether...
what did you play at break times. i remember statues, top trumps and a game called queenio cokeio (spelling). also seasonal games like conkers. i guess the youth of today link up there PSP'S and knock the sh!te out of each other:eek:
What songs remind you of school........ Those carefree days!!
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