Infant school in the 70s....

[themilkman]

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Yes as already mentioned, folk dancing of sorts........the 'gay gordons' if i remember correctly.

[RezinaHamid]

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So similar. Did you go to my school ?

I also remember country dancing and singing lessons where we sang from sheets with BBC4 folks songs program. I wish I could recall what it was called.

Housepoints

Collecting ladybrids in matchboxes and crisp packets with leaves fro them to feed on.

Playing marbles on the grids

Collecting football cards and a throwing game where who ever could throw the furtherst towards a wall won all the cards thrown.

2tone grey and black bic pens we wrote with.

Wide Range Interest Books

Pirate Book series: Roderick the Red, Benjamin the Blue, Gregory the Green.

[stockportyears]

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I remember being about five, and there had been a massive football hooligan fight involving United (they started it, as usual!) and City on the tv the weekend before. So during drawing lesson, all the boys were drawing pictures of stick men with red and blue scarves kicking s**t out of each other. The girls told on us, and one of the teachers went to the front of the class, ordered us to give our 'hooligan' pictures in and forbade us to ever draw pics of it again!

Fuzzy Felt was ace.

Flat Stanley was the book of choice.

We also had a lesson called 'choosing' where we could do what we liked. Usually involved plastecine.

[bun]

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Infants school was, hopscotch, playground games and rhymes, ip dip sky blue etc, in and out the dusty bluebells...school dinners, that aroma was like no other, mince, semolina, gross, council run catering in those days.
Tiny toilets and tiny chairs. A nurse who would slap a load of stinging tcp in an open wound caused by skidding on some gritty concreted playground, then slap a big fat gluey sticking plaster on top. Lady bird books, warm milk with blue straws, sticky paper in different colours and shapes, stickle bricks, fuzzy felt, pipecleaners. watching 'me and you' during the morning, and Watch (programmes for schools and colleges)...

YouTube - BBC1 Schools Junction into Watch (c.1983)
fancy watching some paint dry??

[HG]

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I hated the school dinners - I used to tip the contents of my plate on my chair when the teacher wasn't looking and then sat on it. LOL. I remember one day I hated my dinner so much that I purposely threw up all over it so I wouldn't have to eat it...

happy days!

You didn't go to my infants did you

I remember someone eating his desert and promptly throwing it back up in his bowl, I was sort of expecting to see a strawberry or something on top of it as it looked like angel delight or something

One time at infants we were doing the nativity play rehersals in the church across the road and it turned into a mass spewing session. Several kids (including me ) were bent double over a cardboard box. That was school dinners for you in the 70's!

[chrisredditch]

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We had a few girls who used to leave little puddles for the teacher to clean up. I can't remember any of the boys wetting themselves. I daresay it did happen.
As mentioned above, that pile of sawdust on the hall-floor which gave away someone being sick.
Queues for the water fountains on very hot days.
I remember a boy fainting in assembley and being taken out by some teachers. I went home that afternoon and told my Mum that a boy had dropped dead at school! She didn't believe me! Imagine my amazement when I saw him running about the next day!!

[Richard1978]

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I remember the sandpits at my first school were paved over while I was there, it didn't help that all the local cats & dogs were using it as a giant litter tray.

I've also the smell of industrial grade cleaning fluid in public buildings.

[CoteDazur]

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Does anyone else agree that there was a certain aroma in infant and junior schools...I think it was either a scent from the school note books, or maybe from detergents used by cleaners. My local polling station is my old junior school and one wiff sends me right back.

In my junior school there was an atrium in the middle, where a giant walled sandpit was. Only a couple of people a time were allowed in very occasionally as a special treat. And it was a treat because the sand was so deep and there were all kinds of toys buried all over the place. My favourite was the sieves that would produce "worms" if the sand was dampened.

I remember sawdust for a different reason from the OP - it was used after someone had been sick (usually in the midst of assembly)

I remember dancing around the Maypole, which nowadays seems a bit reminiscent of the Wicker Man, being upset because the teacher's pet was picked to be May Queen, the smell of newly baked biscuits, the dressing up box where all the girls always made a beeline for the denim clogs, Ladybird books, the Hungry Caterpillar, putting your hand up to answer a question and groaning desperately to let the teacher know you were frantic to give the answer, SpaceDust....

[Kiop]

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We had the 'Ladybird' books at our Infants School - some were educational and some were stories.

I also remember the school tuck-shop where you could get four mojos for a penny and some weird chocolate things shaped like DIY tools (saws, hammers, etc).

I hated the school dinners - I used to tip the contents of my plate on my chair when the teacher wasn't looking and then sat on it. LOL. I remember one day I hated my dinner so much that I purposely threw up all over it so I wouldn't have to eat it...

happy days!

[Richard1978]

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Did anyone read the pirate books(different colours as you progressed),I also seem to remember the Fletcher maths books.

I cam't remember the Pirate books (I mentioned the Ginn ones before) & there was a series called Story Chesy

I remember the Fletcher Maths ones, the lower ones had a few cartoon characters to help explain things, I can remember a frog, a cat & a monkey, might have been more.

The later ones wern't as "user friendly" & in the last year at primary school we switched to a different series, can't remember the name of it.

[Hooper68]

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Did anyone read the pirate books(different colours as you progressed),I also seem to remember the Fletcher maths books.

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Lots of Tootles The Taxi on Ebay tootles, Children's Books, Antiquarian Collectable, Fiction Books items at low prices on eBay.co.uk

[Derekflint]

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No memories of Tootles at all.

But if you're interested, Amazon Marketplace may be able to reunite you with a copy.

[curmudgeon]

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Abiding memories are Peter and jane books, Tootles the taxi (like thomas the tank engine but with motor vehicles).

Sweet Baby Moses yes! I loved Tootles the Taxi so much I wanted to take it home, but the teacher wouldn't let me. She told my mum that it was the only book I'd ever read, so mum bought me a copy. I recently treated myself to a large tea mug festooned with Ladybird book covers from that era and there, right in yer face is dear old Tootles. Wish I still had the book.

[Quetelet]

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I certainly recall the little milk bottles - admittedly we're talking 1960s - and the biscuits which were 'Lincoln Creams', later called 'Lincolns'. Are they still sold?

I don't drink milk now. I developed a real problem with the smell.

Yup, with you there amigo, I've always had an aversion to milk too, it's got to be a primary school phobia;I didn't learn until years later that I had Thatcher to thank for saving me from the horrors of school milk.

I remember Lincoln biscuits, much more dunkable than Rich Tea, although HobNobs have total domination of today's 'dunking market'