How was your first day at school?

freshpopcorn · 20-08-2019 07:31PM #1

Some of the local secondary schools are back this week.
My first day of junior infants was in the mid 1990's!
I just remember lot's of people's parents being around and meeting people from play school.
I also remember having a bag/lunch box/etc which was all new to me.
I had a terrible habit of walking in the door and dropping everything and sitting down. I was all over the place for those two years.
When I started first class I went to the CBS and I was delighted I was all grown up going to big school and I liked my teacher. I really settled down.
Secondary was fine. I wasn't really pushed about the whole thing. Having loads of new subjects/teachers/junior cert/etc didn't really bother me. I was just happy we could go down town for lunch!

How was your first day at school?

Bellerstring · 20-08-2019 07:33PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Some of the local secondary schools are back this week.
My first day of junior infants was in the mid 1990's!
I just remember lot's of people's parents being around and meeting people from play school.
I also remember having a bag/lunch box/etc which was all new to me.
I had a terrible habit of walking in the door and dropping everything and sitting down. I was all over the place for those two years.
When I started first class I went to the CBS and I was delighted I was all grown up going to big school and I liked my teacher. I really settled down.
Secondary was fine. I wasn't really pushed about the whole thing. Having loads of new subjects/teachers/junior cert/etc didn't really bother me. I was just happy we could go down town for lunch!

How was your first day at school?

Dreadful

Thelonious Monk · 20-08-2019 07:35PM

I think it was 35 years ago howtf am i supposed to remember?

fmpisces · 20-08-2019 07:36PM

I wet myself!

So I'm guessing it wasn't great. My Junior Infants teacher was a big tower of a woman and I suppose I felt anxious as I hadn't attended playschool and had nearly always been at home with my Mam.

honeybear · 20-08-2019 07:37PM

Terrible. I got stuck under my table (old double desks with seats that go up) and my table companion laughed at me. I was always put sitting beside him in the Junior classroom and still haven’t forgiven him. Oh, he also pushed me out of the desk in first class - I had been knitting and the plastic needle broke and pricked me! Having said that, I loved primary school!

20-08-2019 07:40PM

Pissed my pants, physically abused the teacher, played lego and met someone who has been one of my best friends ever since. 7/10.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 20-08-2019 07:40PM

I don't think I have any genuine memories of my first day. I've have images but I think they are contrived from hearing stories at home years later. It was 1948, so I have an excuse for it not being foremost in my mind.

stateofflux · 20-08-2019 07:42PM

I dont remember the start of primary...but i do remember i used to bring my dads old 70's wine leather briefcase into primary school thinking i was cool as Feck.

The days before i was due to start secondary school the local equivalant of Nelson from the simpsons actually gave me some good advice

he said "If you bring that gay looking briefcase into secondary school you will die"

Good advice

freshpopcorn · 20-08-2019 07:44PM

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

I think it was 35 years ago howtf am i supposed to remember?

Mine was nearly 25 years ago now.
Could you remeber then or is it only in the last few years you've forgotten?

Leg End Reject · 20-08-2019 07:45PM

I think I blocked it out, but I've been reliably informed that I cried uncontrollably.

I can still remember the smell of primary school - mala and dirty toilets.

Cork Boy 53 · 20-08-2019 07:47PM

A long long time ago so I don`t remember but one thing I do recall is that in my day we never went back to school until the start of September, be that primary or secondary level.

Mars Bar · 20-08-2019 07:48PM

I remember getting to play with toys that looked like squares of cadburys chocolate. I was also put in a desk on my own at the front of the room and there was only 3 junior infants. We had juniors up to 2nd class in one room!

I changed school the following year to a town school. I'm still good friends with the girl I sat beside first on the first day there but I don't remember anything else.

20-08-2019 07:50PM

Think it was okay, better than many that came afterwards!

looksee · 20-08-2019 07:55PM

I can remember going into the classroom aged 5, completely unconcerned and wanted to play with a toy that had little wooden shapes that you put a nail through a hole in the middle and hit with a hammer into a fibre board base. This was 1952, they still allowed such dangerous toys and I have no recollection of any child being injured. Anyway I wasn't allowed as it was a boy's game. I have no idea what I did play with.

Your Face · 20-08-2019 08:01PM

I was unimpressed.

Potential-Monke · 20-08-2019 08:01PM

It was 24 years ago, I can't remember last week!

Super-Rush · 20-08-2019 08:08PM

I was out that day.

Yer Da sells Avon · 20-08-2019 08:11PM

I was grand - didn't cry or anything. I recall being very upset the next day though, when it struck me that I'd have to go there every day.

buckwheat · 20-08-2019 08:12PM

stateofflux wrote: »

I dont remember the start of primary...but i do remember i used to bring my dads old 70's wine leather briefcase into primary school thinking i was cool as Feck.

The days before i was due to start secondary school the local equivalant of Nelson from the simpsons actually gave me some good advice

he said "If you bring that gay looking briefcase into secondary school you will die"

Good advice

:D

Fair play to him. You'd have been a briefcase wanker :eek:

happywithlife · 20-08-2019 08:12PM

Although I can remember play school I do not remember 1st day at primary - had a pretty crappy childhood at times tbh. I'm guessing I was packed off with wall paper covered books and a lunchbox. I do remember myself & neighbour walking home together on country roads on our own for the earlier infant finishing times. And the laughter and rows as the 6 of us walked to school in the mornings. Was packed off to boarding school for secondary so remember being dropped off on a Sunday afternoon and making my single bed in the dorm ,& trying to fit everything into my locker. I do remember that night the older girls quizzing us new ones on who "ate chocolate & drank coke" or whatever analogy they used. Being the country buffon I was I hadn't a clue what they were on about. :-D innocent times !

PsychoPete · 20-08-2019 08:13PM

I barely remember the start of today nevermind 22 years ago

The Satanist · 20-08-2019 08:16PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

How was your first day at school?

I'll let you know next week

Gregor Samsa · 20-08-2019 08:17PM

First day of Junior Infants was in 1978. I remember it because I was put into the wrong class, then taken out half way through the day and put into the right one. I was 4 (almost 5), but I remember thinking “if they can’t get my class right, how the hell can I trust them with teaching me anything?”. I was put sitting beside a kid called Alan who became my friend but tragically died of a brain haemorrhage in 1st class.

Ms Roper was my teacher. She was old and kind. Retired at the end of that year.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 20-08-2019 08:20PM

My first day of school was 45 years ago in 1974 and I remember it clearly. I’m a twin and me and my sister were put sitting together which I was not pleased about. We had a lovely teacher, Ms McHugh who reminded me of my granny. I don’t remember much else about my first few years at school but I do remember that day vividly.

sunbeam · 20-08-2019 08:21PM

Mars Bar wrote: »

I remember getting to play with toys that looked like squares of cadburys chocolate. I was also put in a desk on my own at the front of the room and there was only 3 junior infants. We had juniors up to 2nd class in one room!

I changed school the following year to a town school. I'm still good friends with the girl I sat beside first on the first day there but I don't remember anything else.

We had 5 classes-Baby Infants to 2nd Class in one room. Baby infants was a sort of preschool year and I don't think it was mandatory. Some kids did a full year in it, some started whenever they turned 4. I started at 4 and a half in April 1977, then on to Junior Infants the following September.

I loved my first day but that swiftly wore off when I found that I had to keep going...

Spanish Eyes · 20-08-2019 08:28PM

Our teacher sang "who is afraid of the big bad wolf, la la la la" On our first day. Lovely. I remember it to this day. She turned out to be a lovely woman. A Mrs. Ryan, and I was five. Great days.

Stuck in a bench about ten feet long surrounded by god knows who.

But it turned out great. Tiny school in Dublin and I survived. Got a slap of the ruler now and then, but it was just for show. Have no scars. Nothing ever really hit me.

big syke · 20-08-2019 08:30PM

Awful got stabbed under the eye with a pencil. Still have a mark from where the lead broke under skin .

Aglomerado · 20-08-2019 08:34PM

38 years ago. I probably cried despite being really excited to go (I wasn't quite 4.)
Our teacher was lovely.

20-08-2019 08:49PM

I haven't a notion... don't remember

Rubberchikken · 20-08-2019 08:53PM

i apparently promised to be nicer to my brother if i was taken home!
i wasnt and i wasnt:)

20-08-2019 08:55PM

I skipped in happily and remember sitting on the teachers knee while she read a Postman Pat book.

Had to be dragged in the next day. I'd already gone once, I didn't see the point of going again.

How was your first day at school?

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