afternoon all,
what a glorious day,
cast your mind back alllll those years ago to your first days at school..
were they nice memories for you?
i have a few nice memories ..... i remember the messy paint palets and brushes standing in jars in the middle of the tables... the smell of the polished wooden floors in the corridors.... the little picture name tag we hung on our coat peg in the cloakroom where we hung our pump bags up... the sound of the bell being rang at play time ... enjoying the (luke warm) milk we were given in a little bottle to drink through a straw every morning with a biscuit ... and being read a story by the teacher before putting our chairs up on the table when it was home time and then grabbing our satchel and doing a runner out the school gates .....
awwwwww those were the days......
my first school memory was making a green monster out of plastecine school dinners lots of mince dishes with triangles of fried bread on the top !!!!
being a milk monitor,
sitting crossed legged in rows in the school hall for assembly for what seemed like hours ahhhhh happy days !!!!
hey yeah janet and john books! and do you remember the little red hen books too? and wasnt there a fox and a big truck that used to go over the hill with rattling pots and pans?? lol
Me too about the milk, have only been able to drink it really cold ever since. Mind you it was OK in the winter when it had been outside all morning and I remember great excitement when Crusha first appeared and we were allowed to bring it in to school (I'm talking in the 60s)
Warm school milk, big bottle green knickers with a pocket in them, and usually several pairs of them, belonging to girls who'd wet themselves, hung over the big metal fireguard in the classrom steaming away (yes we had open fires).
Being hauled up in front of assembly for getting caught running through the boys' lavatories for a dare..............I was always getting in trouble for accepting dares!
remember all sitting there in class, arms folded before you on the desk/table all chanting the times tables together?!
2 ones are 2 .. 2 twos are 4 ... 3 twos are 6 .....
oh and all diving for the best instrument to have a go on in music class!
hmmmm ...... i was always left with the triangle! .... lol ..........