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Things that went on at school that probably wouldn't be allowed now.
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kids who forgot p.e kit were made to do it in their underwear no socks on a cold marble floor, even girls as old as 11
I remember a downsyndrome girl who no fault of her own found it hard not to disruptive during assembly, the speaker/teacher would walk up calmly drag her slowly by the arm whilst still sat legs crossed to the front, and did the same with any other disruptive child, but it tended to be more her
competitive sports day!
bring in home made birthday cakes on your birthday.:) has to be shop bought now.
This was only the 90's btw,
what are you're memories?
kids who forgot p.e kit were made to do it in their underwear no socks on a cold marble floor, even girls as old as 11
I remember a downsyndrome girl who no fault of her own found it hard not to disruptive during assembly, the speaker/teacher would walk up calmly drag her slowly by the arm whilst still sat legs crossed to the front, and did the same with any other disruptive child, but it tended to be more her
competitive sports day!
bring in home made birthday cakes on your birthday.:) has to be shop bought now.
This was only the 90's btw,
what are you're memories?
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Until Jamie Oliver's healthy school meals drive, the food really was dreadful. I don't think any education authority grasped the idea that a productive child was a well fed child.
Competitive sports day still happens.
Now i cant believe they made us do that. Some girls would try and change in the toilets but the teachers would find them and make them get changed in the classroom in front of everybody.
It seems weird that it was a rule that girls and boys got changed together but just six weeks later you would be in trouble for watching someone of the opposite sex getting unchanged!
Not sure when you went to school but I went in the late 70s/1980s and the food at our school was pretty good. Then again, it was made on the premises and wasn't reheated crap brought in from somewhere else.
Yeah we got that too
We used to play a game which was a variant of dodgeball but rather than using a softball, it was a proper volleyball/basketball so if it hit you, it bloody well hurt and left massive bruises.
Having to do PE in normal pants and a vest at primary school.
I am sure I will think of more.
We had to get changed in the classroom too, in front of everyone else.
In once class the teacher used to literally throw our marked homework books at us. You were supposed to catch them, but those who were not so good with their hands basically got whacked in the face with their own book
A disruptive boy used to be made to stand in the bin - full of coke cans and banana peels
I assume that British Bulldog has been banned (again) by now? That one appears to resurface and get re-banned again quite quickly
Heh, we played that as well, we also played it in the street at home but had the added danger of passing cars
Did you have Mr Quigley as well
- PE was always in vest and undies
- The caretaker played the role of Father Christmas. This is gone in the more secular multicultural Britain
- Competition was allowed!!
- Our headmaster used to smoke his pipe in school. The smell of good pipe tobacco always takes me back to that time
We moved to Manchester, and the new junior school was brutal
- it was the first time I saw a teacher and student fighting
- disruptive kids dragged from class
- corporal punishment was definitely in - slipper, strap, cane
Same here right until the end of junior school as we didn't have any dedicated changing facilities. The girls who were more "developed" were allowed to change in the toilets.
We had a junior school teacher who would make you sit on his knee until the end of the lesson if you were being naughty in class.
At secondary school when the cane was still allowed, one female teacher who was tiny would stand on a chair to administer the cane. Another teacher would spend all of the lesson waving his cane around and ad a brilliant ability to whack it down on a desk a millimetre from your fingers.
We had a teacher who was a former cricketer so he had a fantastic aim with the chalk or board rubber. He could hit you between the eyes at the back of the class.
But think these would checked now days.
Yes this was the case in our class i was a very early developer , my mum was really mad when she found out and complained to the school. then we had to get changed in a cloakroom (the girls)
Yeah I agree school dinners , I remember getting battered spam, 2 smiley faces and using an ice cream scoop for 1 scoop of mash and some sweetcorn, and jelly like ...can't imagine that being great brain fuel, especially as parents paid 1.50 a day for the pleasure.
The **** one
i thought sports day banned competitiveness though? or was that newspaper rag rhubarb.
i think bad school food was a late 80's to 2000's issue mainly. My mum said her school food, 60's 70's was ok too.
That wouldn't be allowed today.
That would make sense, I left school in 1988 and, by that time in the Sixth Form, we weren't eating school dinners very often but would either nip to the chip shop, the local corner shop or walk down into town for a sandwich.