Last day at school

[sf1378]

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June 1974.

One of the best days of my life. I walked out of the Grammar School gate the same way I walked in, on my own.

After the last GCE exam, I hurled my school briefcase into the litter bin as I passed by the hated Gym, walked out opposite the school, lit a cigarette and waited for the next bus.

It was a few days before my 16th birthday.

Bit similar to me then. I hated school - by the end of it due to being bullied at both my secondary schools. I can remember my last day at the Private School I did my GCSE's at - didn't speak to anyone, no one spoke to me, handed my subject books in having removed all the wallpaper or coloured paper protective covers we'd been told to put over them, handed in my Army CCF (College Cadet Force) uniform, cleared my desk out, caught a bus home or was picked up by Dad. No party for me to go to etc...

I had to go back to collect my Artwork and paints with my Dad after the examinations had been marked and I vowed I'd never go back there ever again. Its closed down now. Went bust due to not enough money coming in from new students, and the fees had kept on increasing so parents savvy enough were opting for Comprehensives or Grant Maintained Schools, which were far far superior in every single way - I wish I'd gone to it - its just a husk of land with stripped out buildings, awaiting redevelopment. I've often thought of going back there just to burn whats left down - I hate the place that much...

Last day of my A - Levels, handed my books in, simply went outside, looked up at the smarmy gits in the sixth form area near the window, didn't look back and walked to the bus stop. Went home that was it. Never going back there either.

[battyrat]

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My last day of secondary was an exam day.I went in took the exam then like everybody else left the room never to return.Surprisingly there was nothing special lined up and nothing happened that really marked it such a special occation as your last day at school.Not like you see on telly with american programs anyway.Pity really as it really is something worth celebrating and remembering.Some of us had planned to let off all the fire alarms and just create a riot,but as they kept the exams as the last thing we ever done there and everybody was badly scattered it never happened.
Primary schools last day was just another day.We were kept working for the most part by our teacher then told we were needed out in the playground and to gather there.So we did.We then spent the next half hour talking and just sitting on (the log) with the headmaster and our year teachers.And that was that.Nothing really happened out of the ordinary apart from going into the playground.I don't even think they let us out early.Don't even remember clearing up or taking home any of my old work which is what most schools would do.It was all just left there apart from my old blue dap bag.

[n3llyo]

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i left school when my olevels finished in june 1982( i was going to college in the september so knew after that day i was going to have 3 months of nothing to do ) my last exam was biology i hated the subject i was enthusiastic when id started it a few years earlier but it all became a pointless thing id grown bored of it and if im honest id say it got too hard a subject for me to be enjoying or doing at that stage ,i wrote my name on the paper read through it to see if there was anything i recognised or had a chance of answering decided after 15 minutes i was wasting my time got up and left ,i went looking for the school caretaker who id allways talked to he was a nice bloke allways had a good story to tell ,that day i couldnt find him i allways said id go back just to say goodbye and thanks i never did though it sadden me greatly when i learned from a mate who stayed on to do the 6th form that the old bloke had died only a few months later
i really hated the school it was never my choice to go there i was registered to go there by my dad with no knowledge he wanted the status symbol of being able to say his son was attending grammar school i hated the place but in all fairness it had given me a good education apart from biology i had gained top grades in all my other subjects) but i detested its rules and regulations its stuffiness it was a very over the top grammar school the teachers wore capes and morter board hats i was the son of a postman my mates dads were a bus driver and a milkman and a welder but all around us were the sons of lawyers, doctors ,opera singers orchestra violinists and other "posh jobs" as we called it if it wasnt for my `normal `mates i dont know how i would have got through those 5 years

[bun]

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Primary school mid 80's- disco, had a pale pink suit (a la Miami Vice) towelling socks (eeek!) and jelly shoes thought I was the mutts

Secondary School early 90's. Just remember having to pick up all our school work books had carrier bags full of it, shirt being doodled on and signed by class mates, and the eggs and flour being thrown on the bus on way home!!

[Pussywillow]

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Yes you would be my friend.

I went thru 14 years of school on my own. 2 infant ,2 Primary, 2 secondary schools, all on my todd.

What made matters worse was that my Father was a headteacher. I never went to any of his schools.

Am i right in saying school was a nghtmare for you mate.

i cant remember my leaving date but i remember only 2 of us showed up and we left at dinner time.

what relief it was all over

[80sChav]

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Yes you would be my friend.

I went thru 14 years of school on my own. 2 infant ,2 Primary, 2 secondary schools, all on my todd.

What made matters worse was that my Father was a headteacher. I never went to any of his schools.

I am trying now to think of my last day at Primary School, but it's a bit hazy - I don't think it was much but the last Year 6s (as they'd be known now, got a Party). If they did, we did, and i'm unsure if I was there, though I can recall the day well somehow, watchig videos in the afternoon and like a Sports Day but not a Sports Day (more of a fun element) as well. I can cleary see that day (but not all the events) in my mind even now - years later! If only we could of had that mix at Secondary we had at Primary (the close knitt community etc and kind Teachers) that we did.

I am sorry to hear about your time at School, Pussywillow, it was similar for me in certain aspects too in some way's - i'd of been your friend and looked out for you bearing this in mind, for vyou too for certain mate.

80sChav

[sf1378]

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I am trying now to think of my last day at Primary School, but it's a bit hazy - I don't think it was much but the last Year 6s (as they'd be known now, got a Party). If they did, we did, and i'm unsure if I was there, though I can recall the day well somehow, watchig videos in the afternoon and like a Sports Day but not a Sports Day (more of a fun element) as well. I can cleary see that day (but not all the events) in my mind even now - years later! If only we could of had that mix at Secondary we had at Primary (the close knitt community etc and kind Teachers) that we did.

I am sorry to hear about your time at School, Pussywillow, it was similar for me in certain aspects too in some way's - i'd of been your friend and looked out for you bearing this in mind, for vyou too for certain mate.

80sChav

Well that makes 3 of us who didn't enjoy school or had a nice time of it...I was bullied too. I find that when you're made an outcast at school - it effects you in later life, you become a bit of a loner, sometimes not through choice. Most of the time I actually enjoy my own company.

[havasack]

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Last day for me was 26th May 1989 (apart from going back to do the A Level exams).

Morning was spent hanging around the school and then a leavers assembly before being released at lunchtime. Then it was a couple of halfs in the pub before the leavers ball on the night and getting drunk whilst also trying to find out what was happening in the Liverpool v Arsenal title decider.

Hard to believe it was 21 years ago.

I remember that day well as it was my birthday and I was on my first mediteranean holiday with my then girlfriend. Absolutlely hate Liverpool FC so ended up dancing on a table with some lad from Sheffield who felt the same way as me after the final whistle as my girlfriend and his wife and two kids lookied on, kind of confused and embarrassed.

[Pussywillow]

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Well that makes 3 of us who didn't enjoy school or had a nice time of it...I was bullied too. I find that when you're made an outcast at school - it effects you in later life, you become a bit of a loner, sometimes not through choice. Most of the time I actually enjoy my own company.

Yes that was the one thing I learned from the lousy schools I attended : how to enjoy my own company. Still to this day although married with 5 children and one grandchild I STILL enjoy my own company.

People say to me 'you must have learned something at school though'.

I learnt more from books and latterly the internet than I ever did at school.

The only thing school did was t teach me how to lie, cheat, remain inconspicuous and how to disappear.

Sorry got off the point of this thread slightly...

[Moondog]

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i don't remember my last day, all the days felt the same around the time i left, i was in 5th year and was due to leave at Christmas, the week before Christmas i just didn't go in and thought "i'm not going back" lol

[darren]

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when you get to near the last week hardly any other pupils ashow up.
the teachers are not to worried as they are finishing for the holidays.

thats how it was for me no one showed hardly at all for the final week other than me and one or 2 others in my class.


well my last day was not officially my last day but it was the best day.
freedom at last.

i don't remember my last day, all the days felt the same around the time i left, i was in 5th year and was due to leave at Christmas, the week before Christmas i just didn't go in and thought "i'm not going back" lol

[escorteclipse1990]

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Friday 6th May 1994 was my last day at High school, i remember it well. The weather was warm and sunny and we said our goodbyes wishing everybody luck in the future, teachers shaking your hand wishing you all the best and asking you what you will be doing for a job etc. I remember most of the girls where crying. We signed each others shirts. We where told to be off school land by 1:00pm. I walked out of school down to the local Ford dealer to get some sales brochures and then went to a school mates house to have a party, all of us got drunk. I then went home in a Red E Reg Ford Sierra 1.6L taxi. Happy days.

[goodbyetomaria]

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We finished senior school on the day we finished our respective exams. I remember walking up the hill with my classmate with a huge lump in my throat. At the top of the hill we set off to our respective homes. I would love to go back to that point in time to hear exactly what was said. Normally we would have said something like "See you Monday, mate". But I wonder what we said on this occasion? "See you next year"? or "See you in sixteen years time". It is sad that I will never know.

[Sammy]

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I vaguely remember something to do with flour and eggs on the last day of the 5th year (year 11 in new money I think) but then I went back for the 6 th form and the last day of that was a bit of an anti climax.
Kids now seem to have proms etc, even when leaving primary school. It's all a bit American.

[Star Attraction]

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Kids now seem to have proms etc, even when leaving primary school. It's all a bit American.

What do you mean by "proms etc" these days?