Going to school on your Birthday

[amethyst]

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In primary school you had to stand in front of the class so they could sing to you

[Trickyvee]

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I do remember the bumps. Never got them myself, it was mostly the boys that fell victim and they were usually administered by one person with knees to the backside rather that the throw in air described elsewhere on the thread.

[Trickyvee]

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In infants we had a fake cake with about 4 candles in it. It was basically a green china planter filled with green plasticine. It came out in assembly once per week so any kids with a birthday that week got to go to the front and hold the cake while everyone sang the birthday song. It wasn't 'happy birthday', it was some other jolly little ditty that I can still remember the tune to but not the lyrics.

By junior school the cake had been ditched and each person would get up on the front stage and simply declare their name and age, then the school would chant in the most dreary, uninterested monotone ever "We wish you (over long pause), many happy returns on your (over long pause) nth birthday (over long pause) Joe Bloggs.

[sweep]

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Never heard of the bumps we got hair pulling during morning assembly one pull for each year by whoever you happened to be standing next to.

[mazzer]

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We always got the bumps on birthdays - but it was usually very good natured and vigorous but not brutal. The "bumpee" usually enjoyed the attention.

[mark1129]

We used to give kids the bumps

[w00ster]

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Totally agree that going to school on your Birthday years ago was an absolute nightmare ...... always a massive disappointment and if it happened to fall on Assembly Day and your name was read out to the entire school, then worse still !! Times have changed, though, I have to say and when my 8-year old daughter celebrated her Birthday in June this year we sent her into school with a hugesweet hamper full of retro sweets to `crash` out to all her schoolmates !! Made her day ..... did loads for street cred (hers and mine !!) and gave everyone in the class something to talk about for weeks after !!!

[branny]

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Mine always fell in the summer holidays. It was great. No having to wait til you got home to open and play with your pressies. Nice long balmy summer days when it didn't go dark until after 10pm.

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Absolutely hated going to school on my birthday, nothing normally happened except the dreaded bumps. It was worse if the birthday landed on a Friday, as that was the day the local paper came out and we had to hope our parents never put our photo/birthday wishes in it, or everyone in school would know it was your birthday! My parents got well warned not to do it, luckily they didn't!

[xmark1234]

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i use to bob school on me bithday that way didnt get egged lol

[darren]

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yes i see what you mean by friends but are not true friends.

but yes the birthday bumps where a very nasty cruel thing mate.

the bumps where worse when it got to secondary school etc.

there was real cruelty in them.

I never had the bunps but I did my best to distance myself, though thinking of it another way from say Year 4/5 (being 8 or 9 years old to the First Year of Comphrensive) I had a close circle of friends and one great best friend who was always there as a good friend and support if needed, even though it was different with those in the Inner Circle, even though they could be described as friends but not always friends if this makes sense.

Still though some never liked you you some day's some sort of strangeness was there that stopped any potiental birthday bumps. Though at Comprhensive it was different, but by the time i'd changed School's the idea of birthday bumps was not a done thing as such then.

80sChav

[80sChav]

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I never had the bunps but I did my best to distance myself, though thinking of it another way from say Year 4/5 (being 8 or 9 years old to the First Year of Comphrensive) I had a close circle of friends and one great best friend who was always there as a good friend and support if needed, even though it was different with those in the Inner Circle, even though they could be described as friends but not always friends if this makes sense.

Still though some never liked you you some day's some sort of strangeness was there that stopped any potiental birthday bumps. Though at Comprhensive it was different, but by the time i'd changed School's the idea of birthday bumps was not a done thing as such then.

80sChav

[Pussywillow]

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I never went to school on my birthday, as I was born on New Years Day, 1st January.

you lucky swine !

[LittleBoo]

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I never went to school on my birthday, as I was born on New Years Day, 1st January.

[battyrat]

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I think I was rather lucky in both my schools that I was missed.Not popular enough in primary to be shown up in front of the school,and hardly ever at secondary to get caught out there by anybody.At work I tried to get that day off,these days I tend to take a week close to the actual day off just as a presant to myself.My last employer used to give cards out on peoples birthdays so knowing this I gave the right year but wrong month and day just to be awkward when I started there.As long as they know your age and year of birth the actual date of birth I have always seen as something an employer need not know.The tax and insurance have all the info on file anyway.Those close to me knew when it was but never said anything.It bacame a running joke on my employer.