My First Day at School - Page 2

Atomic22 · 07-01-2004, 20:10

did anybody on the forum used to watch the grimleys?
that school was a clone of mine......
if dynamo doug digby wasnt based on my games teacher i would be surprised.....

**Stuart C** · 07-01-2004, 20:22

I remember we used to look forward to being allowed to wear long trousers...

martinell · 07-01-2004, 21:08

shorts till 3rd year juniors(thx mum) still got a complex about getting my knees out even in the height of summer an the walks to school in winter were agony in the snow,hail,rain accompanied by the oversize clodhoppers mum said where sensible and strong! <shudder>
looks like the bowl she used to use on my hair too

kronas · 07-01-2004, 21:24

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Originally Posted by Chimaera

Why Kronas - did you wear skirts at your school??

no the males wore trousers, the females skirts

**Stuart C** · 07-01-2004, 21:31

I remember sh**ing my self in the last few weeks of Primary School. I was convinced my Secondary school was going to be like Grange Hill..

Marge · 07-01-2004, 21:32

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Originally Posted by scastle

I remember sh**ing my self in the last few weeks of Primary School. I was convinced my Secondary school was going to be like Grange Hill..

Dave Stones · 07-01-2004, 21:33

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Originally Posted by scastle

I remember sh**ing my self in the last few weeks of Primary School. I was convinced my Secondary school was going to be like Grange Hill..

why would that make you s**t yourself? grange hill was cool

personally i was hoping my high school would be like the one off neighbours... and i dont mean everything taught in the same room by the same teacher

**Stuart C** · 07-01-2004, 21:36

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Originally Posted by Dave Stones

why would that make you s**t yourself? grange hill was cool

personally i was hoping my high school would be like the one off neighbours... and i dont mean everything taught in the same room by the same teacher

I was convinced I'd have the crap beaten out of me everyday. Hey, I was 11. I was young and stupid..

Marge · 07-01-2004, 21:37

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Originally Posted by Dave Stones

why would that make you s**t yourself? grange hill was cool

personally i was hoping my high school would be like the one off neighbours... and i dont mean everything taught in the same room by the same teacher

At the risk of sounding like a right old git Grange Hill was scarey in the olden days, have to agree with you stu

homealone · 07-01-2004, 21:47

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Originally Posted by Atomic22

i went to a grammer school in its last few years before it became a comprehensive , the teachers wore stupid batman capes and mortar boards and all first years had to wear caps......
these were all stolen by the big boys , buried in longjump sandpits , flushed , willys drawn on them etc etc , if you werent fast enough to hide them...
hahaha happy times NOT
how i laughed when the bullies all got their come-uppance after we went comprehensive and joined up with the school full of ruff boys from next door (my mates who were too thick for grammer school)

lol, the memories - our teachers had the gowns, but not the mortar boards. We also had to wear caps - but only out of school, and for the first couple of years, as I was a 'boarder', that included Saturday as well

Opportunities for 'creative bullying' were enhanced in the boarding part of the school (about 50 of us in a roll of 600 odd), including being ejected outside naked late at night, being locked in a locker & therefore being punished for missing supper, multiple waterbombs while sat in the 'open top stall' type toilets etc,etc

- funny enough, by the time we got old enough to be on the giving, rather than receiving end, it had died down - we were more concerned with trying to sneak out, or going for a fag in the den we built under the stage

<edit> and before any bright spark comments

, 'fagging' had been abolished by then - but my first year I had the privilege of cleaning a prefects shoes & footy boots for 3d a week (1.25p)

Mal · 07-01-2004, 21:48

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Originally Posted by Nor

Came accross an old piccy of my first day at school. Surprised its in colour

Thought I'd give you a laugh at my fringe that my dad must have done. Think those must be my happy pills on the table.

Sorry Nor, but I couldn't hold this back any longer...

That picture reminds of Jimmy...

Again apologies...

Atomic22 · 08-01-2004, 18:14

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Originally Posted by Mal

Sorry Nor, but I couldn't hold this back any longer...
That picture reminds of Jimmy...

Again apologies...

Bex · 08-01-2004, 20:33

i remember when i started middle school it was a nightmare, dad is the caretaker of the school so we live in the school grounds.... by the big kids i was always known as "mr c's daughter" although it did mean i didn't get picked on by them, and actually in secondary school the big lads used to stick up for me a lot, if they sort anyone giving me grief

at secondary school we soon cottoned on to the fact you had to do your blazers up, so we removed them, can't do them up if you have none

and they used to do that annoying thing of measuring how long your skirts were....boy were we pleased when we were in year 9 (about 13 ish) when they introduced girls being able to wear trousers, although i had to hide from the headmaster for two years, because i used to wear "fashionable" i.e. baggy legged/flared trousers.....

Nor · 08-01-2004, 20:38

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Originally Posted by Mal

Sorry Nor, but I couldn't hold this back any longer...

That picture reminds of Jimmy...

Again apologies...

hehe very good