15 things that everyone did in primary school

Hammer Archer · 28-01-2013 12:12AM

Jumpers for goalposts.
The height of the goals always depended on the height of the goalkeeper and usually caused a daily row over whether a shot was over the bar or not.

Also, pretty much everyone in the country learned to spell from this book.

Mr Keek · 28-01-2013 12:12AM

Your teacher saying "What are your going to do, write 'you weren't in that day' on your exam paper"

djflawless · 28-01-2013 12:14AM

fire brigade or ambulance visiting.that was unforgetable stuff

Absolutezero · 28-01-2013 12:15AM

Going by what I see, posted on boards.

Max Power · 28-01-2013 12:15AM

I remember in 6th class a different pupil was picked every day to go to the staff room, fill the kettle and turn it on about ten minutes before lunch time. The excitement when you were picked was brilliant.

LETHAL LADY · 28-01-2013 12:16AM

mark renton wrote: »

Slow runner?

It is hard to run with click hips.

Whatsernamex33 · 28-01-2013 12:18AM

Did anyone else ever have chocolate muffins every Friday/any other day?

I don't know any other school that did, best thing ever t'was. xD

TheUsual · 28-01-2013 12:18AM

DINOSAURS !!!!!!!!!!!!

ITS_A_BADGER · 28-01-2013 12:22AM

A points journal , a system where you get points for doing homework during the week and for giving correct answers to the teachers questions and mark it in your points journal,so that you needed a certain amount of points for a homework free weekend

EoghanIRL · 28-01-2013 12:24AM

Got into a van , there was no candy

mikemac1 · 28-01-2013 12:25AM

The public health nurse arrived to check us for nits

Line the class up, comb your hair and if you had them then you get a slip of paper to bring home to get the special shampoo

All done in front of everyone

The mammy mortified as if the whole parish knew she had unclean chizlers

The smell of the shampoo would almost knock you out! If you've ever been on a farm and smelled sheep dip it's much the same.

Couldn't do that nowadays, little darlings can't be humiliated in front of others and Joe Duffy would go into overdrive

kyote00 · 28-01-2013 12:26AM

Geometry set in that metal/tin box.

Usually followed by stabbing someone in the ass with the compass or dividers....

Sam Kade · 28-01-2013 12:26AM

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

It is hard to run with click hips.

There was a girl in my class with a clicky hip. The teacher got annoyed with her, she brought her up to the front of the classroom and walloped her in front of the whole class :eek:

LETHAL LADY · 28-01-2013 12:26AM

Whatsernamex33 wrote: »

Did anyone else ever have chocolate muffins every Friday/any other day?

I don't know any other school that did, best thing ever t'was. xD

God no, it used to be milk in white non-branded cartons, that had been left in the sun for a good three hours. It was served up at 11 o clock break and there was a choice of milk or strawberry milk. Only the rich kids got them and the rest of us looked on with envy.

1ZRed · 28-01-2013 12:27AM

FionnMcCool87 wrote: »

Anyone remember Pól Péist and Áine Asal.

I think that's the reason why I've such a deep rooted hatred for the name Pól

TheUsual · 28-01-2013 12:31AM

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

God no, it used to be milk in white non-branded cartons, that had been left in the sun for a good three hours. It was served up at 11 o clock break and there was a choice of milk or strawberry milk.

Flashbacks to small european milk mountain cartons that had a plastic straw and we used to stick down the back of the radiators so they smelled really bad.

Sam Kade · 28-01-2013 12:31AM

The doctor came to the school to check the health of the students. It was done alphabetically first fella in was Cott he told us when he came out that he had to strip to his underpants for the doc :eek::eek::eek:

Mr Keek · 28-01-2013 12:34AM

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

God no, it used to be milk in white non-branded cartons, that had been left in the sun for a good three hours. It was served up at 11 o clock break and there was a choice of milk or strawberry milk. Only the rich kids got them and the rest of us looked on with envy.

We used to have those desk that used to lift up and you put your books in under them.

One fella, hated the milk, so he used to take a couple sips and put the carton half full in his desk. Every day, Five days a week. After about 2 weeks, the milk was gone well sour and the smell out his desk would absolutley knock ya! Scummy Fu*ker!

LETHAL LADY · 28-01-2013 12:35AM

Sam Kade wrote: »

There was a girl in my class with a clicky hip. The teacher got annoyed with her, she brought her up to the front of the classroom and walloped her in front of the whole class :eek:

Yeah slapping was the style of the times when I went to school. Our 1st class teacher had a cane, which had been pared off the bark, but had enough knots on it to inflict pain. I remember getting caned by her and every time she went to slap I pulled away my hands. Big mistake, it infuriated this monster even more and she held my hands as she slapped the cane across my palms. Bizzarely she had a glass eye and overlapping toes on both feet.

mikemac1 · 28-01-2013 12:36AM

The MMR jab
Done in 1st class

When I was in 6th class we had to get the rubella jab again.
Just rubella, nothing else.
Parents were talking, wasn't that just for girls?
I dunno, we all got it

Subsidised milk from the local creamery,
Small cartons with the straws.
Left out on the school walls so if you were early you brought them in
During the winter they'd be frozen into ice!

ITS_A_BADGER · 28-01-2013 12:37AM

a swift ruler across the knuckles is what we got if we were out of order

mikemac1 · 28-01-2013 12:41AM

Special needs assistants didn't exist, no such thing

Kids with issues were segregated out of the local school and went to special school. Also known as the "funny farm".

Later on that was stopped and kids went to the usual schools but had a remedial teacher.
Yep, remedial was the word used, maybe it still is

Never ever heard of special needs

I haven't heard of funny farm since the nineties! That's good I suppose

TheUsual · 28-01-2013 12:43AM

Mr Keek wrote: »

One fella, hated the milk, so he used to take a couple sips and put the carton half full in his desk. Every day, Five days a week. After about 2 weeks, the milk was gone well sour and the smell out his desk would absolutley knock ya! Scummy Fu*ker!

That was me !

Mr Keek · 28-01-2013 12:43AM

Thinking your 'Shatter Resistant' plastic ruler was unbreakable.

How solely dissapointed were you when your broke it half after you snapped across on your knee!

Rothko · 28-01-2013 12:45AM

FionnMcCool87 wrote: »

Anyone remember Pól Péist and Áine Asal.

What about Lucy Luch?

tippspur · 28-01-2013 12:46AM

Got slapped across the hands with a bamboo stick.

rainbowdrop · 28-01-2013 12:46AM

mikemac1 wrote: »

The public health nurse arrived to check us for nits

Line the class up, comb your hair and if you had them then you get a slip of paper to bring home to get the special shampoo

All done in front of everyone

The mammy mortified as if the whole parish knew she had unclean chizlers

The smell of the shampoo would almost knock you out! If you've ever been on a farm and smelled sheep dip it's much the same.

Couldn't do that nowadays, little darlings can't be humiliated in front of others and Joe Duffy would go into overdrive

Our nit nurse was called Nora, but we all called her 'Nitty Nora the Head Explorer' lol!

This was years before Dora the Explorer was ever heard of. Everyone would be dreading her visit......

WoollyRedHat · 28-01-2013 12:46AM

Getting Golden Stars as a reward. Bliss.

mikemac1 · 28-01-2013 12:49AM

No mention of Ann and Barry?

Thread must be full of young 'uns who don't remember these characters and also Murphy the dog

hoodwinked · 28-01-2013 12:55AM

getting fruit pastilles for getting all your spellings right

15 things that everyone did in primary school

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