compulsory sleeping at school

[80sChav]

Re: compulsory sleeping at school

Had to do this at infant school in early sixties , anyone else remember doing it ?

What is known now as Reception so we were all 4-ish, every day after school dinner we returned to class and 'got the mats out'

For the next hour you had to lie on your mat and be still and quiet while the teacher did paperwork at desk

After first few mins of fidgeting and whispers we all settled into a doze, an hour later lights came back up and we had to put the mats back into the cupboard.

A room full of grumpy kids rubbing their eyes and whinging cos we'd been flat out and wanted to go back to sleep!!!

So so true this was Danny yeah. Especially on Video Afternoons or when I had Science last 2 lessons = the cons of having a Science Teacher Teaching Science who was also you Form-Teacher!

80sChav

[darren]

Re: compulsory sleeping at school

as this was compulsory be interesting to know when it first started in schools and when it stopped if it has now stopped.

[FLYING SAUCER]

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My Mum did this in the wartime years - 1939 to 1945 - When the Air Raid Sirens were ongoing and disrupted childrens sleep patterns, I went to school from 1969 to 1981 and we never had sleep sessions, could do with them now though?

[battyrat]

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I don't remember it in primary but I do have images of some kids falling to sleep in the afternoons when it was story time at primary school.

[darren]

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Me neither, although I only did half days at nursery. Not sure if those there all day had a nap.

it may have been something that was done in schools if the school decided to.

i sure do not remember hearing of this in any school i remember.

[Trickyvee]

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Me neither, although I only did half days at nursery. Not sure if those there all day had a nap.

[Richard1978]

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I never remember having one, even at nursery school.

[willpurry]

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My Mum got told off in the late forties for talking to a younger pupil who was meant to be sleeping.

[darren]

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I've worked in Nursery and Infants schools for some years and whilst a snooze still seems to happen in nursery, I have never known reception year childen to have a sleep-break. Though it wouldn't be a bad idea!

was this only done in nursery school i never went to it.

id think by the time u leave nursey school you would not have compulsory sdleeping at school.

[aron123]

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Christ yes i remember having to pretend to be asleep in the fold out cot beds they gave us and i hated it.
I was a very fidgety and energetic kid and i suppose i was disrupting the reat of the class, quite a few times i would get slapped on the legs for not going to sleep.
It was like torcher for me! anyway after a good while i suppose i got into the routine of taking this enforced nap and then i drove my mum nuts cause id be jumping around wake half the night.
Stupid nursery school

[smurfie1]

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we did this at my school in the 80s!

[Marine Boy]

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I've worked in Nursery and Infants schools for some years and whilst a snooze still seems to happen in nursery, I have never known reception year childen to have a sleep-break. Though it wouldn't be a bad idea!

[Music-Reunited]

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I remember this too, and to let you know my little boy is now 3 and
they still do it at pre-school. dont know about reception year yet,
but I will let you know in september if they still do it there too....

[purplecat]

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I remember doing this - must have been 1964/5 and I was at nursery school

[pedro]

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Yes i remember this from my nursery day's in the early 60's along with a glug of Cod Liver Oil and a smartie(yes 1 smartie) to take away the taste. Not sure when it was fazed out but my kids did the same when we lived in france for a bit in the late 80's