The School Féte

[vanhelsing]

There was a tradition every year in my junior school in which a 'rose queen' was elected (from what I remember, it was always ome afro-carribean girl) and would be 'crowned' on the day of the school fete (Don't remember her having any special status (like the proberbial USA high school quarterback/ team captain/head cheeleader) and would be forced (probably against her own free will) to be part of The Stretford Pageant every summer.

[80sChav]

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 'throwing-the-sponge-at-a-teacher' stall where you queued up for ages!

Anyone else have memories of spring and summer fétes? Especially from the 70s and 80s.

We only ever had one - I recall in Primary and it was either Year 5 or 6 (in new Currency) and we all got promised (an by coincidence we was booked on a trip to the National Railway Museum in Yor - before it became really famous), but back to what i was saying at this Autumn fate we was all promised to help give food parcels out the an old persons complex nearly next door (and that we'd all gottan a chance) and as a kid who loved caring and doing (or wanting to do Children In Need things) I never got that chance just as is the abiding memory of being too ill at a similar time of that year for the NRM Trip!!

80sChav

[George 1978]

I was thinking whether the School fête was the same thing as the jumble sale that we had and all that - there was something during our last week at Junior school (the end of Year 6 as it would have been know by) where we threw sponges at a teacher, and so that could have been our school fête for that year.

[zabadak]

I was in Infants or Junior School when our fête was opened by the actor Edward Woodward!

[George 1978]

You should have had him for Maths lessons as an equalizer.

(Sorry...)

[I. R. Fincham]

I was in Infants or Junior School when our fête was opened by the actor Edward Woodward!

That's what I Callan exciting day.

[George 1978]

I suppose that the closest we get to an actor was a Drama teacher.

[Mulletino]

I seem to remember one of our school fetes being opened by Tom Baker in the 70s, in his Dr Who heyday.

I loved school fetes, the lucky dip, tombolla, and games. Xmas was great as they also had a big toy stall on year where I saw a 12" Cylon figure (from Battlestar Galactica) and my parents got it for me at xmas.

[davidthomas27]

The fete at my primary school was apparently opened by Mr Blobby (the furry version), although I got there too late to see him.

[zabadak]

I was in Infants or Junior School when our fête was opened by the actor Edward Woodward!

Doh!