15 things that everyone did in primary school

Sam Kade · 28-01-2013 01:00AM

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

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.

Was the year 1971 by any chance?

ilovesleep · 28-01-2013 01:01AM

mikemac1 wrote: »

No mention of Ann and Barry?

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

Ann and Barry - I remember them. They went to the zoo.

Does anyone remember Rira, Micky, Lulu agus Neili?

mikemac1 · 28-01-2013 01:06AM

Súgradh, Sonas agus Spraoi

Magazines you could get

Different ones for different age groups

Stealth Recce wrote: »

Got into the van

In the rural areas the library was a van that came around once a month.
Two students put in charge of getting books for the class

So yeah, I got in the van, a Tipp North council van.

Jacks Smirking Revenge · 28-01-2013 01:09AM

"Head, eyes, shoulders, knees & toes"

BidillyBo · 28-01-2013 01:09AM

Forgetting your lunch and people being really generous and giving you their manky sandwiches and rotting fruit

LETHAL LADY · 28-01-2013 01:10AM

Sam Kade wrote: »

Was the year 1971 by any chance?

Mrs. Sampson thats all I am saying.

mikemac1 · 28-01-2013 01:10AM

Here is your yellow bus scoile

Pure crocks

The kids with Dublin Bus or in the cities with Bus Éireann were spoilt

Yes rural transport was subsidized but we got the castoffs that Bus Éireann didn't want!

Sam Kade · 28-01-2013 01:11AM

BidillyBo wrote: »

Forgetting your lunch and people being really generous and giving you their manky sandwiches and rotting fruit

You ungrateful little bollix :mad:

phasers · 28-01-2013 01:12AM

anyone remember the Tara and Ben books?

ilovesleep · 28-01-2013 01:12AM

Coming home from school from nionan beaga and nionan mora to watch bosco.

What was the rhyme on bosco?
Knock knock on the magic door...

Does anyone remember Sile and Seamus from bosco?

Sam Kade · 28-01-2013 01:13AM

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

Mrs. Sampson thats all I am saying.

Damn it you didn't fall for the reveal your age trap

ITS_A_BADGER · 28-01-2013 01:14AM

ilovesleep wrote: »

Coming home from school from nionan beaga and nionan mora to watch bosco.

What was the rhyme on bosco?
Knock knock on the magic door...

Does anyone remember Sile and Seamus from bosco?

Knock knock, open wide,
see what's on the other side,
Knock knock, any more,
come with me through the Magic Door

what was the bit they did with the stop motion? all i can remember was woof said o flaterty

Lyaiera · 28-01-2013 01:16AM

Jacks Smirking Revenge wrote: »

"Head, eyes, shoulders, knees & toes"

Head, shoulders, knees and toes mate...

AAAAAND EYES AND EARS AND MOUTH AND NNNOOOOOSE!

HEAD SHOULDERS KNEES AND TOEEES, KNEEES AND TOEEEES!

ilovesleep · 28-01-2013 01:17AM

ITS_A_BADGER wrote: »

Knock knock, open wide,
see what's on the other side,
Knock knock, any more,
come with me through the Magic Door

what was the bit they did with the stop motion? all i can remember was woof said o flaterty

Oh my god! You remember it. Great job.

ilovesleep · 28-01-2013 01:20AM

ITS_A_BADGER wrote: »

what was the bit they did with the stop motion? all i can remember was woof said o flaterty

I've no idea what you're talking about there.

Lyaiera · 28-01-2013 01:22AM

ITS_A_BADGER wrote: »

what was the bit they did with the stop motion? all i can remember was woof said o flaterty

I used to be able to play the Flaherty's garden theme on guitar. Always went down a storm at parties and for a while you could judge who was too young to be drinking.

mikemac1 · 28-01-2013 01:22AM

The McSpuds who lived in the supermarket and came out at night

Legends!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2St2rpxzbA

ilovesleep · 28-01-2013 01:24AM

mikemac1 wrote: »

The McSpuds who lived in the supermarket and came out at night

Legends!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2St2rpxzbA

There were some creepy bags of sugar too.

KungPao · 28-01-2013 01:24AM

The ultimate pencil case!

BidillyBo · 28-01-2013 01:25AM

Sam Kade wrote: »

You ungrateful little bollix :mad:

Truth is I would rather have gone hungry and did on occasion but when the teacher would notice you had nothing to eat and asked people to give you stuff I couldn't just throw it away then so had to eat manky food I didn't want.

Lyaiera · 28-01-2013 01:29AM

I'd say the Bosco staff put many a drug dealer through college.

ITS_A_BADGER · 28-01-2013 01:30AM

Lyaiera wrote: »

I used to be able to play the Flaherty's garden theme on guitar. Always went down a storm at parties and for a while you could judge who was too young to be drinking.

Thats what it was flahertys garden !

Miss Lockhart · 28-01-2013 01:33AM

Anne likes jam. Barry likes cake.

The flowers in the field don't worry or hurry, the flowers in the field just smile at the sky...

Pages and pages of Figure it Out when you were finished your work in Busy at Maths early.

I forgot how much I loved primary school.

Sam Kade · 28-01-2013 01:35AM

BidillyBo wrote: »

Truth is I would rather have gone hungry and did on occasion but when the teacher would notice you had nothing to eat and asked people to give you stuff I couldn't just throw it away then so had to eat manky food I didn't want.

I know the feeling, I was working with a silage crew many years ago and the farmers used to give us the dinner. There were plenty days that we had no dinner one place we were working the old woman made the dinner hairy bacon and cold beans and the old woman had rotten teeth and grey hair. We only picked at the dinner and the hunger didn't bother us for the rest of that day.

Ah nuts · 28-01-2013 01:37AM

Wellies.

mikemac1 · 28-01-2013 01:37AM

Ever go to the staffroom during lón?

Was like an old mans pub in there, thick with cigarette smoke!

Ah_Yeah · 28-01-2013 01:38AM

Writing a "What I Did On My Summer Holidays" essay every September

Confession consisting of "I said a bad word" and "I hit my brother/sister"

Having a pencilcase-off at the start of every new school year

Those square maths copies

Photocopying your hand when you were sent to get something from the office or make the tea

Taking a pencil "for a walk" and colouring it all in after

"La brea brothallach a bhi ann...."

Deathwish4 · 28-01-2013 01:38AM

Played Bullrush

Lyaiera · 28-01-2013 01:41AM

Ah_Yeah wrote: »

"La brea brothallach a bhi ann...."

"Ni raibh aon scamall sa speir..."

Edit: And of course, "Do fadas count Miss?"

mikemac1 · 28-01-2013 01:42AM

Watching Ireland in Malta for some very important football game.

Qualification for some important tournament I believe

Hadn't a clue what it was about, didn't care and the main memory was we were packed into a classroom sitting on the floor so my back was killing me by the time it was over

The older lads in 5th and 6th class were mad into it and thought it was huge, so did the teachers

Football, zzzzzzzzzzzzz

15 things that everyone did in primary school

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