What was your first day of school like?

cooltown · 18-08-2010 05:06AM #1

I remember like it was yesterday. It was a really interesting day. I walked in the school yard and I was really excited with my new bag, lunch box with my stickers on everything. I remember walking into the class room for the first time and everybody had their mammy's with them. I was put at the green table. We played with lego and toys. When 10 o clock came all the mammys were told to leave. Only one child kicked up a scene and that was me. Then when I calmed down. We played for longer. Then it was time for lunch and out comes my Toy Story lunch box and what happens. It falls and smashes into bits. I start cying. Then I looked at my school bag and I realized somebody had stole my glow in the dark stickers. I started crying again. It was a bad day and we went home at one o'clock. On the way home in the car my mam said to me are you looking forward to going again. I was like I have to go again? I thought you only had to once!
What was your's like?

Improbable · 18-08-2010 05:10AM

All I can remember is entering the classroom with a flying karate kick.

Overheal · 18-08-2010 05:13AM

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x PyRo · 18-08-2010 05:20AM

Can't remember, thankfully.

School was shit and I've forgotten it all.

OutlawPete · 18-08-2010 05:39AM

I cried and cried and my shiny new teacher (Miss Kelly, St Colmcille's Boys National School) brought me to the toilet and washed my face, kissed my forehead and held my to her boobs and I fell in love.

She was my teacher for the next three years.

I still think about her.

I may call her.

DOC09UNAM · 18-08-2010 05:48AM

The only thing I remember from the first day of secondary school, was this guy who started crying because his locker was on the bottom row.. on the floow.

It was hilarious, and because he was crying, his shoes got stolen.

SoupyNorman · 18-08-2010 05:58AM

I remember the 1st day of school from low infants upto 4th class because of one boy, I can still remember his name and face.

The first day of each new year it took his mother and upto three teachers to subdue him. He used to go hysterical on the first day of school, his mother would be dragging him into the room. I'll never forget one year when he clamped onto the door frame and the school caretaker had to pry him off.

By the time we got to 4th class or 'big school' we were all pretty sick of the antics so he stopped. I seen him a couple of years ago working in McDonalds, I forget to thank him for the hilarious memories.

ElaElaElano · 18-08-2010 06:08AM

Always been a wrong'un me, right from the start...Met my teacher from junior infants years later and she said she'll never forget the first day of school that year because amid all the crying and chaos, and parent-clinging, I apparently tipped her on the shoulder and asked 'what is the procedure in the event of a fire or emergency?'...I was 4 years old...must've heard it or seen it somewhere but still, it'd be priceless to hear no doubt.

mfceiling · 18-08-2010 08:17AM

cooltown wrote: »

I remember like it was yesterday. It was a really intresting day. I walked in the school yard and I was reaaly excited with my new bag, lunch box with my stickers on everything. I remember walking into the class room for the first time and everybody had there mammy's with them. I was put at the green table. We played with lego and toys. When 10 o clock came all the mammys were told to leave. Only one child kicked up a scene and that was me. Then when I cammed down. We played foe longer. Then it was time for lunch and out comes my Toy Stoy lunch box and what happens. It falls and smashes into bits. I start cying. Then I looked at my school bag and I realized somebody had stole my glow in the dark stickers. I started crying again. It was a bad day and we went home at one 0 clock. On the way home in the car my mam said to me are you looking forward to going again. I was like I have to go again? I thought you only had to once!
What was your's like?

I'm guessing here OP but was yesterday your first day at school.........

Kasabian · 18-08-2010 08:26AM

cooltown wrote: »

I remember like it was yesterday. It was a really intresting day. I walked in the school yard and I was reaaly excited with my new bag, lunch box with my stickers on everything. I remember walking into the class room for the first time and everybody had there mammy's with them. I was put at the green table. We played with lego and toys. When 10 o clock came all the mammys were told to leave. Only one child kicked up a scene and that was me. Then when I cammed down. We played foe longer. Then it was time for lunch and out comes my Toy Stoy lunch box and what happens. It falls and smashes into bits. I start cying. Then I looked at my school bag and I realized somebody had stole my glow in the dark stickers. I started crying again. It was a bad day and we went home at one 0 clock. On the way home in the car my mam said to me are you looking forward to going again. I was like I have to go again? I thought you only had to once!
What was your's like?

It won't be as bad when you go into senior infants. You can laugh at all the little boys and girls.

WindSock · 18-08-2010 08:42AM

My mam took me over to another girl and asked the girls name then left me with her and ran off. Little did she know that the girl I had just made friends with was the class psycho and for the next 2 years we were getting up to all kinds of mischief. Until she had to stay back, so I took on her role.

CorsetIsTight · 18-08-2010 08:43AM

My mother walked me to school and told me to be careful crossing the big road on my own on the way home, and that if I was nervous I could wait for one of the big girls and cross with her.

We got to the classroom and she left almost immediately, leaving me surrounded my crying, wailing girls. I remember wondering what they had been told that I hadn't.

I was happy when I saw the pile of jigsaw boxes on the play table, because I loved doing jigsaws at home. Then I discovered that they were all only 4-piece ones. I think the suspicion that the school thought that we children were idiots stayed with me for the rest of my time there.

18-08-2010 08:45AM

I started school on my fourth birthday.. Mam has told me since that she tricked me into thinking it was my present.

bonerm · 18-08-2010 08:53AM

My ma's a teacher so I had a good idea of the school concept long before day1. As such I was excited to get in and check out all the fuss. Not everyone was so excited tho. When I arrived in class I remember the kid beside me was crying and wanting to go home. So I told him not to cry and that school wasn't going to be bad.

I was a liar even from an early age.

bonerm · 18-08-2010 08:55AM

mfceiling wrote: »

I'm guessing here OP but was yesterday your first day at school.........

Give him some credit tho. Look how he was able to keep all his writing nice and straight.

Motley Crue · 18-08-2010 08:59AM

I ran away from Mum into the schoolyard and she got upset because, having walked me there, I just ran in without giving her a kiss

I remember we spent a lot of the day doing name badges for the person sitting next to us, a great introduction lesson really, and then did a lot of work on 'Autumn' and 'Busy At Maths'....truly, the two most important lessons of that era, since we were of an age where the trees dying every year were worrying us. I remember they used to call it Nature Studies on the book list as well.

I also remember playing in that schoolyard, running about and then lying in the sun one day, it was a weird - open plan - schoolyard that had little hiding places and little inlets and a few bushes too...I don't think you'd see one like that these days, and without being crude, it was such a stimulating place for our minds as young children

stovelid · 18-08-2010 09:41AM

I remember quickly establishing control of the lucrative milk and bun sell-on trade (by battering the top boy in the jacks with a sock full of Lego) which got me right in with the mots as well.

orourkeda · 18-08-2010 10:00AM

stovelid wrote: »

I remember quickly establishing control of the lucrative milk and bun sell-on trade (by battering the top boy in the jacks with a sock full of Lego) which got me right in with the mots as well.

Not quite as lucrative as the sticker distribution business. Textbook theory is no substitute for the cut and thrust world of the schoolyard business environment.

biko · 18-08-2010 10:22AM

My first school was quite small town and I really liked it.
Later on we moved to a big city and the school there was pretty crap but I powered through, like kids do.

General Zod · 18-08-2010 10:23AM

I'll never forget my first day. my mam and dad walked me to the school, having made sure I was dressed properly and had my lunch packed and in my lunchbox. New Grey flannel trousers, smartly pressed. a new green jumper and white shirt. I had one of those ties on an elastic string. I was nervous on the walk to school. My dad had his camera at the ready. "It's a big day for you son, try and be brave".

They got me to the class room, amid all the chaos and screaming, and were proud as punch when, for the first time, I walked to the top of the class and said "Good Morning children, I'm Mr. Zod and I'll be your teacher."

Brendog · 18-08-2010 10:27AM

I went in and got in a ton of trouble because some kid lied and told the teacher I threw another kids coat in the toilet, when it was actually him who did it.

If I remember correctly he failed his leaving and is now on the dole...

Serves him right the ****er!!

Otacon · 18-08-2010 10:39AM

I remember three details about my first day.

1. My mother leaving and me crying for a good 10 minutes straight before noticing ALL THE TOYS!!!!!!

2. My flask with Ribena in it was yellow with a red top.

3. I sat beside another boy, named Seán, who happened to be the teacher's son but I didn't realise it until a day or two later as he called her 'Miss' as well.

fakearms123 · 18-08-2010 11:20AM

I didn't cry so much my first day as weep hysterically, crying is where tears run down your face, I was weeping, this is where you lose control of all muscles and end up punching the blackboard in anger breaking several meta-carpals in the process

Greyfox · 18-08-2010 11:25AM

Can't remember but can remember my first day of secondary school, all us first years were assembled in the PE hall and everyone was wearing the correct Navy school trousers...except me who was wearing grey trousers...oh boy did I stand out :eek:

Loopy · 18-08-2010 11:41AM

I shit my pants.
It was horrific.

PeterIanStaker · 18-08-2010 12:20PM

I got into a fight with someone straight away, this kid, whose name I can still remember, wouldnt give me this toy, so I took it off him and lamped him over the head with it. He burst into tears.

No regrets.

megadodge · 18-08-2010 12:24PM

I remember waking up and immediately running excitedly into my parents room and jumping onto their bed saying "am I starting school today?". They weren't impressed as it was only 6 a.m.

My abiding memory of the actual class on the first day was my complete puzzlement at other kids crying and my further confusion when, after questioning her about it, being told by my mother that they were just babies. But they were the same age as me and I definitely wasn't a baby!!

I wish she told me the truth - that school was fúcking miserable and it was only going to get worse and worse for another 14 years and those kids obviously knew that.

Dixie Chick · 18-08-2010 12:26PM

I went to nursery first so school wasnt too bad. But my mother used to tell me that she was just ouside the door knitting. I was quite happy knowing she was there and never went to look for her or her knitting needles and 7000 jumpers

anniehoo · 18-08-2010 12:30PM

I went to playschool before "Big School"...all i remember was the plastic cup of miwadi orange, 2 rich tea bickies at lunchtime and endlessly playing with málar (morla whatever...).Happy times!

I was late for my first day of Primary School. Never forget it. My mam was racin around the school corridors, draggin me by the arm tryin to find my classroom. Mrs Mantan was my first teacher and she was a legend! I loved primary school so much (all good memories). Very Happy times!

Have feck all good memories from Secondary

alwaysadub · 18-08-2010 12:44PM

I was made start school in October, cos if i'd started with the rest in Sept i would've been 3 still. So everyone was already well settled and had made friends by the time i arrived.

Anyway,i don't remember much of it, but i do know my dad had to be called back after leaving me there cos i was so inconsoleable!
I think i've blocked the rest from my memory..

CrazyRabbit · 18-08-2010 06:43PM

Something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxo81Ok9Urk

What was your first day of school like?

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