Can you remember your first day at school?

hawkwing · 29-08-2013 12:16PM

yes,in 1977 when i was 3 (don't think that starting age is allowed anymore),started college at 16 in 1990 and 3yr diploma done by 19-the leaving cert students seem to be that age these days:o

Czarcasm · 29-08-2013 12:19PM

Muise... wrote: »

Wow! Did you go to school in The Big Rock Candy Mountain?

Had to Google that, but nope, we grew up in the country alright, and I'm not one for social networking either, we do the old fashioned thing of phone calls and meeting up face to face every so often.

29-08-2013 12:21PM

Don't remember the very first day, hazy memories of the first year though and being bumped up classes and the excited interrogation from other kids

BeerWolf · 29-08-2013 12:24PM

Went to Kindergarten [We including that, or from Class (Standard) One onwards?] in Malaysia. Some place called Eden - I honestly can't recall any kids crying when I was there, everyone seemed excited cause we were making friends with each other. And for lunch we all had sweet red beans in little plastic bowls - gorgeous stuff btw.

So I guess I had a good first day of [pre]school!

Honey-ec · 29-08-2013 12:24PM

Yep. 1986 and I got put outside the classroom door for talking. I remember very vividly thinking that was a bit harsh, considering it was the very first day.

Muise... · 29-08-2013 12:24PM

Czarcasm wrote: »

Had to Google that, but nope, we grew up in the country alright, and I'm not one for social networking either, we do the old fashioned thing of phone calls and meeting up face to face every so often.

I still don't know what a jigsaw in a tayto bag is.

(I should google too, but I don't want to be disappointed. It sounds class.)

Czarcasm · 29-08-2013 12:36PM

Muise... wrote: »

I still don't know what a jigsaw in a tayto bag is.

(I should google too, but I don't want to be disappointed. It sounds class.)

Basically they were pictures glued to card and cut up into shapes like triangles, the teacher used keep them in tayto bags. You used have to put them together. We also did the marla thing, and the counting bricks.

silly · 29-08-2013 12:37PM

started in '84. I remember my mom drove me, 2 other kids from our estate and their moms to school, but we broke down half way there, don't remember how we got there in the end!
I remember wetting myself and then my older sister and friend chasing me around the school to get me to the principal, who had to bring me home with newspapers on the back seat of his car, i was embarrased.

silly · 29-08-2013 12:38PM

And while on the subject, does anyone remember the school photos that were taken and then you would get them in this tiny keyring type telescope thing, you held it up to the light and looked through it to see the pic? Would love to see them again, there has to be some in our attic...

JohnMearsheimer · 29-08-2013 12:46PM

My mum packed me off to my first day of school in 1988 with a cold flask of tea and a Thomas the Tank Engine lunch box. I had a great day playing with mala.

Popsy · 29-08-2013 12:47PM

I started in 1982. I think I cried for a few minutes after my mam left and was fine until lunchtime when the teacher forced me to each those awful corned beef sambos and milk. I hated milk and butter so I threw a tantrum and was made sit in the corner for lunch.

The next day my mam gave me Liga to bring into school for my lunch and I was ridiculed for being a big baby.

Definately not a good start

OldNotWIse · 29-08-2013 12:51PM

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Vaguely. I was not one if those who cried, I did all my crying in play school the year before. I was a very quiet child in Junior and Senior infants. I used to walk around the play ground on my own following the lines. The teacher used to always send notes home about me never talking to anybody in the class.

I came out of my shell in 1st class and then they complained about me talking too much :pac:

hahahaha:)

OldNotWIse · 29-08-2013 12:54PM

I started in 1988. Wasn't too upset going in. First thing teacher said was close the door and sit down. Being the stubborn little b1tch that I was, I left the door open and stood at the desk. She closed the door, I opened it, she closed it etc... I'm not sure who eventually won the battle of the door but I know I stood at my desk all day, every day for two weeks.

Teyla Emmagan · 29-08-2013 01:20PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I started in 1988. Wasn't too upset going in. First thing teacher said was close the door and sit down. Being the stubborn little b1tch that I was, I left the door open and stood at the desk. She closed the door, I opened it, she closed it etc... I'm not sure who eventually won the battle of the door but I know I stood at my desk all day, every day for two weeks.

Wow, I was sure you were a man. And about 65

castletownman · 29-08-2013 01:33PM

Pretty sure it wasn't my first day but my first clear memory of primary school was getting my junior infants teacher (fresh out of Pat's might I add), to wipe my bum.

Some introduction to teaching life for the poor girl

Shenshen · 29-08-2013 01:35PM

Yes, started in 1980 in Germany.
When we came into the class room, the teacher had put up little signs with our names on them on the desks we were supposed to be sitting.
My mom looked around for a while until I pointed mine out to her...

I don't remember anybody crying, tbh. I knew some of the kids from kindergarden anyway.

keano_afc · 29-08-2013 01:54PM

Yep, went out for a slash and ran home.

PhlegmyMoses · 29-08-2013 02:00PM

I was sent for ADHD testing not long after my first couple of weeks in school because I wouldn't sit down and had no idea of social norms and etiquette; That's a nice toy you have there, I'll be having that. I told everyone in my class to call me Winston, after Winston Zeddemore from the Ghostbusters, to the point that we'd have kids knocking on the door asking if Winston was coming out. They reckoned it was the lack of playschool and being around other kids, rather than ADHD. I'm still not so sure.

Wacker The Attacker · 29-08-2013 02:00PM

No

Mars Bar · 29-08-2013 02:35PM

There was a box with toys under the desk and I remember them looking like chocolate squares. Had great fun playing with them. I also remember running out of the classroom door to use the loo and the teacher stopping me and asking me where I was going. I hadn't grasped the whole "ask for permission" thing.
I also remember sitting at the desk and wondering why everyone else knew everybody apart from me and the two behind me.It was because there was only 3 of us in baby infants and the rest of the classroom was made up of seniors up to 2nd class. Dunno how the teacher managed to teach and control four different classes in the one room!

I moved school after that year and can't remember my first day in the new school. I do remember the first friend I made there though (we're still friends.

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jester77 · 29-08-2013 02:46PM

Most kids cry and want to go home, I was the opposite. My mum came to pick me up early from my first day, an hour before class had finished, and I started balling. Didn't want to leave, wanted to stay and play marla with the other kids.

OldNotWIse · 29-08-2013 03:18PM

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Wow, I was sure you were a man. And about 65

Dont feel so bad about turning 30 now :P

Honey-ec · 29-08-2013 03:20PM

I'm curious - do the people who spell it "marla" pronounce the R when they say it? Like Marlowe, but ending in A???

Muise... · 29-08-2013 03:34PM

Honey-ec wrote: »

I'm curious - do the people who spell it "marla" pronounce the R when they say it? Like Marlowe, but ending in A???

I do: "márla". Otherwise I'd be referring to my mála scoile.

donutheadhomer · 29-08-2013 03:37PM

Muise... wrote: »

Wow! Did you go to school in The Big Rock Candy Mountain?

shhhh rolf harris might be listening

Czarcasm · 29-08-2013 03:41PM

Honey-ec wrote: »

I'm curious - do the people who spell it "marla" pronounce the R when they say it? Like Marlowe, but ending in A???

I'd pronounce it like "morla", the fada over the a elongates the a.

kellso81 · 29-08-2013 03:43PM

I clung to the railings outside and screamed my head off, then one of the nuns told my ma she was a bad parent. Same nun who used to line up a class of 5 year olds and beat them with a ruler!

Honey-ec · 29-08-2013 03:45PM

Czarcasm wrote: »

I'd pronounce it like "morla", the fada over the a elongates the a.

I'm aware of how a fada works. Muise was the first person to use one with the R, though.

Just curious. It was always mála to me.

OldNotWIse · 29-08-2013 03:47PM

Eh??

Where did the "R" come from??

I always thought it was Maaaaaaaaaaaala!

sunflower27 · 29-08-2013 03:57PM

What is maaala?

Can you remember your first day at school?

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