Things You Remember From School

JohnnyChimpo · 24-07-2010 05:38PM

arse..biscuits wrote: »

The day the dog got in

:pac:

This was the best day

storm2811 · 24-07-2010 05:41PM

I remember playing something called orange balls,whatever it was.:pac:

There was a bull in the field beside the school aswell and rumours would spread saying that it escaped and killed such and such(whoever wasn't in that day.)

We used to make dens in the trees untill they got cut down and hide under those big overhanging willow trees to play house.

There was a big wall seperating our yard and boy school yard and whenever the older boys would jump over we'd all leg it over to teacher.:pac:

We got free milk aswell,sometimes fruit too and there'd be a massive rush for the grapes.
When your teacher wasn't in and you got split up into groups to be put into other classes,you'd cry your eyes out if you weren't in the same group as your best friend.
The baby infants class was always the best one to be in,you'd spend the whole day "sorting out the toys" for the teacher.

byhookorbycrook · 24-07-2010 05:46PM

Red Rover,Midnight murder and yes we too played a game called "Orange balls",having to buy and wear horrible uniform esp for the confimation, green a-line skirt and a vile beret.
School tour to Glenbeigh, frozen to ice,stopping on the way home to buy a "new" snack Rancheros.School tour also went to Bunrattty-and thrill of thrills, train to Dublin and flying back to Shannon.

Buntús and the carboard cutouts that always fell off the nylon board.Learning religion qs and ans off by heart and living in fear of the visiting religion inspector. Having "good" copies where you pointlessly transcribed essays, then kept for the cigire.

sky88 · 24-07-2010 05:51PM

i remember the milk with the pictures on the back and everyone wanted the race car one and of course choclate muffin friday was awesome back then

Susannahmia · 24-07-2010 05:57PM

Obaraten wrote: »

My French teacher who spent the class teling us all about west Cork in the 1950's and about the Nazi's too.
R.I.P Mr Canty

Ballyfin College? RIP Mr Canty, he was such a nice man.

JohnMearsheimer · 24-07-2010 05:57PM

Obaraten wrote: »

My French teacher who spent the class teling us all about west Cork in the 1950's and about the Nazi's too.
R.I.P Mr Canty

I had a science teacher like this in school, Mr O'Hanlon. He always had the most interesting stories on all sorts of things, of course everyone would ask for a story so he wouldn't talk about what we were meant to be doing that day but he always obliged. A lovely man who has since passed away but I do think of him every now and then.

3hn2givr7mx1sc · 24-07-2010 06:00PM

Obaraten wrote: »

My French teacher who spent the class teling us all about west Cork in the 1950's and about the Nazi's too.
R.I.P Mr Canty

Some man for one man.:(

I loveed primary school, except for the last year when a díckhead of a new principal came in and started changing things, and he hated me.:mad:

We used to cut out shapes of trophys and wrap them in tinfoil and the captain of the winning team of the lunch time game on a friday got to keep it until the following Friday.:cool:

We had lunch-time leagues too, there was rounders, football, soccer and hurling.

Agricola · 24-07-2010 06:01PM

Graduating from writing with a pencil to a ........... pen! As Dougal would say, WoooooW!

When you'd be in 3rd of 4th class, you'd think those fcukers in 5th and 6th writing with pens were the ultimate in sophistication!

Going to first holy communtion. All lined up in the pew beside the confession box. Tense and nervous. Sometimes a chancer who was next to go would jump up and run to the other end of the pew again! Going in to recite your prayers and not being able to think up any times when "you didnt show love!!" I always said I spat at my auntie! lol, I never spat at anyone in my life. So I got absolved of sins I never commited! :pac:

In the very early years, probably 1st n 2nd class, spending afternoons doing knitting in the cloak room! Im sure we could have learned knitting in the classroom but the 4 of us in my class always wanted to go to the cloakroom for some reason.

Knifey Spoony · 24-07-2010 06:11PM

Mickeroo wrote: »

WE had milk too, but we had the option of strawberry flavoured milk called "Benny Buny" or plain old dawn milk.

Ah "Benny Bunny", we had that for like maybe two years or so before it was cruely taken away from us. I remember the day it suddenly disappeared from the milk bucket, a little part of my youthful spirit was crushed that day.:(

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 24-07-2010 06:13PM

School plays in junior infants with our little plastic torches.

Urgh and the room-temperature cartons of bainne... and occasionally some disgusting-smelling corned-beef sandwiches, which I still can't stand the smell of.

Being picked almost last for football and not having kewl runners. :rolleyes:

BluesBerry · 24-07-2010 06:13PM

My school had the free milk and sandwiches on fridays we got a current bun I always hated those because a girl that sat next to me always had a runny nose and rumor had it he dad was a baker, One day I had a bun but the current in it seemed to have burst and oozed out green stuff I was convinced this girls dad baked that one and the ooze was snots :eek:

I have never to this day eaten a current bun

charlemont · 24-07-2010 06:17PM

i went to school in clonmel, so all i remember is scumbags........:pac:

stupidusername · 24-07-2010 06:19PM

It's funny to see people talking about wiping the blackboard clean and cleaning the dusters, and even the bell ringing. The teachers were obviously too lazy to do it themselves!

I remember waiting for ages to get to ring the bell. Think I only ever got to do it twice. Maybe it's a strange one, but another thing in our primary school was delivering the post. I remember having to do this once. three of the five teachers were named Mary, and I was in one of the early classes, so I didn't know who was who, and I went knocking on the classroom doors asking are you ...such and such? Don't know why I remember that, suppose I was worried about getting it right.

Another thing I remember is when there was a teacher meeting going to happen at lunch I was sent in to their room and had to put out cups for their tea, and cut up a chocolate cake into slices for them!

I don't ever remember having any classes though. It was such an informal set up. We didn't have set schedules. Maybe that wasn't just us.

I do remember getting whacked with a metre stick. It was just the once, on the palms, but it's not like it was that long ago. I finished primary school in '96.

rubberdiddies · 24-07-2010 06:20PM

i remember the smell of the headmasters pipe as he walked through the school smoking it. This was the late 80's!

Jesus Juice · 24-07-2010 06:22PM

I remember falling in the yard during small break and absolutely screaming ''MAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMYYYYYYYYYY''

I had Yops everyday for lunch as well!

INJECTIONS:D
There was always that one kid who would have a fit, go crazy and cry!

storm2811 · 24-07-2010 06:33PM

Ohh I remember our cloakroom was just a load of pipes with hooks on top and around the sides.
The pipes had hot water in them and if you came in at the right time in winter and sat on them it was the best thing ever.

Whenever we got sent to give messages to other teachers we would take as long as possible.
If I was asked to name all the people in letterland right now I think I could,remember when 'X' used to be kissing cousins?
It's something else now.
We used to get this thing called 2 o'clock break sometimes if we were good/the teachers weren't bothered anymore and when we wouldn't get it we'd all sit there sighing and complaining how hot it was untill they opened all the windows and eventually let us out.

Nostalgia.:(

kylith · 24-07-2010 06:58PM

Calling in to say the rosary with Sr. Nuncy after school because she'd give you sweets afterward.

Having to change into your slippers after going inside.

Desks with holes for inkwells.

phasers · 24-07-2010 07:01PM

Oh I remember sixth class girls got the "honour" of going to the staffroom before break and unloading the dishwasher, boiling the kettles and putting teabags in all the cups.

Then after lunch we got to clean it all up. I stole so many biscuits...

Speaking of biscuits, in secondary school I used to volunteer to help at parent teacher meetings in the evenings (It was the only way to get the vice Principal to let you be an assistant during the LC and earn some dosh) and I had to do the tea trolley. Again, many biscuits were stolen.

"Phasers, are there any chocolate biscuits?"

"Err no miss..."

Crann na Beatha · 24-07-2010 07:04PM

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Ruu_Old · 24-07-2010 07:04PM

Hah, a week rarely went by when a stray dog made his way into the class room to roars and laughs. Teacher had a hard time keeping us quiet. Also, the magazines Sugradh, Spraoi and Sonas. Agus Pol on the projector!

kylith · 24-07-2010 07:07PM

Ruu wrote: »

Hah, a week rarely went by when a stray dog made his way into the class room to roars and laughs. Teacher had a hard time keeping us quiet. Also, the magazines Sugradh, Spraoi and Sonas. Agus Pol on the projector!

Jebus, I'd forgotten about Sugradh and Spraoi. Wasn't there a rabbit?

byhookorbycrook · 24-07-2010 07:07PM

I taught in school in the late 80s where children still brought in turf for the stoves, the only heating in the schools.

Oh knitting, the bane of my life. In 5th we had to sew aprons for cookery class in 6th.We used to go across to a rather nasty nun on Friday afternoons for sewing. Being a leftie did nothing to endear me to her. Learning the Salve Regina in Latin, having one student teacher and letting her down with a bang in front of her inspector- she made a book and we told the cigire it was she who made it, but she had obviously told him that WE made it.

Busi_Girl08 · 24-07-2010 07:07PM

- The márla. Came in a spectrum of brown, green and a lovely grey

- Being instructed by the teacher after doing an exercise, if he finish before everyone else, to put our head in our arms and "go to sleep". I also remember the kids who did manage to fall asleep getting told off by the teacher afterwards :pac:
- "The day the dog got in"
- Aptitude tests in 3rd and 5th class.
- Speaking of 3rd class; my 3rd class teacher would throw Beanie Babies at anyone who wasn't paying attention.
- All the other kids getting their cartons of milk (didn't want it, was perfectly happy with my slightly chilled Ribena, thank you very much :P) and injections (my mum wanted me to get them done by our GP.)
- The Christmas plays. I remember on the night of our 3rd class one, we were all allowed to watch Happy Gilmore in one of the JI rooms before our show.
- *Knock on the door*
Everyone - "Tar isteach!"
*Person leaves*
Everyone - "Slán leat agus go raibh maith agat!"
All said in a monotonous, entranced tone ("full moon....half moon....total eclipse....")
- In 6th class we had vocab tests every Friday for English and Irish. Who ever got the most in either would win a trophy. (I think I won both one week

)
- The prayers/songs for Communion and Confirmation. I STILL remember some of them :eek:
I also still perfectly remember an Irish "opposites" list we learnt in 6th class "fuar, te, láidir, lag, geal, dorcha, dathuil, granna..."

- "A.....L.....I.....V.....E......O....A.L.I.V.E.O....ALIIIIVEOOOOO!!!!"

BluesBerry · 24-07-2010 07:14PM

I remember in 1st class just as the year started the principle came into the classroom and instructed us all to take out our religion books

At the start of the book A note for parents we had to scribble out a paragraph with our pencils I remember finding my religion books years later and erasing the pencil and it said "God is like a policeman and will punish you if us disobey"

Somebody must have made a complaint and wanted that gone

Funny how you get reminded of stuff like that

3hn2givr7mx1sc · 24-07-2010 07:17PM

Obaraten wrote: »

Yup! for one school it did have quite a number of legendary teachers

Rambo, anybody?:D
Love that man.

When were you in Ballyfin?

Ruu_Old · 24-07-2010 07:17PM

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

I taught in school in the late 80s where children still brought in turf for the stoves, the only heating in the schools.

Oh knitting, the bane of my life. In 5th we had to sew aprons for cookery class in 6th.We used to go across to a rather nasty nun on Friday afternoons for sewing. Being a leftie did nothing to endear me to her. Learning the Salve Regina in Latin, having one student teacher and letting her down with a bang in front of her inspector- she made a book and we told the cigire it was she who made it, but she had obviously told him that WE made it.

An bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an leithreas?

beccabeccabecca · 24-07-2010 07:30PM

*The first day of summer when the grass was dry enough to be played on.

*Being allowed to go down to the staff room and photocopy things for the teacher, as well as ringing the bell or banging chalk from the duster.

*Letter Land and all the videos to go with it.

*The weird songs at the back o the Aliveo books - remember one of them was all about a body clock and the chorus was inviting people to come listen to it

. And the one about the land of milk and honey as well.

*Being forced to mind the Junior and Senior infant classes during breaktime when it was raining.

*The nativity plays with all the girls killing each other over who got to be an angel and who got to be Mary.

Crann na Beatha · 24-07-2010 07:31PM

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Big Nasty · 24-07-2010 07:43PM

Trasna na donta

allandanyways · 24-07-2010 07:47PM

"Slán agat a muinteor agus go raibh maith agat"

From the English and Irish readers: Tara and Ben and Ruaraí agus Rirá

The special handwriting copies that supposedly taught us how to write properly- my writing looks nothing like how I wrote then

I don't know if any one else remembers the maths books, I think they were published by Fallons, but they were really long, much longer than our other books and they never used to fit in my schoolbag. You used to get marked out of ten at the bottom of the page and the marks were also written at the back of the book and it was a mega achievement if you could get one column of straight tens.

Also remember marbles and Pokemon cards being the absolute necessity in school (especially the shiny cards).

Things You Remember From School

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