Memory Lane

[Ronnie_Pickering]

Anything from yesteryear. Remember this?

[biscuits]

Oh my gosh, yes! It felt like it had been in the school one hundred years prior to me starting school - with its slight wobble.

You could take some of it away to make it shorter.

[Rocket Spud]

^^ God, yes, i remember those - and the spring board!

These...




... Seems bizarre we were allowed to climb to the top now (as kids). And with the climbing ropes too.

[biscuits]

The ropes!

You climbed them? I'd put the end between my legs and bend it (holding on with one hand round the back) and then swing!

[Rocket Spud]

Lol, i remember that move! Yeah, some of us would climb them right to the top. I know it was only about 10-12ft but that's quite high to fall off!

[biscuits]

I seem to remember going to the television room to learn how to read and write.

Through The Dragon's Eye was a firm favourite:



The villain was straight out of a horror film:

[biscuits]

When I was in primary school I wanted to join Green Peace and I was well into the environment and animals. I wrote to Green Peace in Year Five as part of our letter writing lessons and they wrote back to me. I also wrote to John Major at one point to tell him off about fox hunting and he replied too.

When we were introduced to EarthWarp (another video for teaching reading) it lit up my heart.

It's our planet
It's our place
We must save the human race
Save the creatures
Save the trees
Save the land
And save the seas
Earthwarrrrp

[Mr. Nobody]

Originally Posted by affluenza

Anything from yesteryear. Remember this?

Back in the day when Bees were real bees, and not these southern snowflakes you get nowadays.

[biscuits]

It's not a beehive.

[Ronnie_Pickering]

I had a backpack like this at school:

[genovese]

And within a week someone had grabbed a marker and wrote "Give me" on it, right?

That was peak school playground comedy.

[Ronnie_Pickering]

haha- somehow I managed to avoid that. That head bag was surprisingly a good quality bag.

[Jen.]

Originally Posted by genovese

And within a week someone had grabbed a marker and wrote "Give me" on it, right?

That was peak school playground comedy.

I never saw that in school, but it seemed popular for a while to use a marker pen and Tipp-Ex to blank out and fill in the Kappa logo.

[Jen.]

Originally Posted by Rocket Spud

^^ God, yes, i remember those - and the spring board!

These...




... Seems bizarre we were allowed to climb to the top now (as kids). And with the climbing ropes too.

One of the only things I liked in PE was the rare occasion when one teacher would pull out all this apparatus (there were probably seven or eight things like this attached to every wall around the room), get the ropes down from the ceiling and arrange a few benches and boxes across the middle of the room, and we'd play some kind of floor is lava team-based chase/tag game. I've never felt such exhilaration as those PE lessons. I always wondered why those climbing frames were so rarely used.

Although the same teacher also used to like playing "sock wrestling", where we were put into groups of two or three and had to roll around on the floor trying to pull each other's socks off while he walked around looking at everyone. It felt very wrong at the time, and looking back feels even more so. He wasn't even a proper PE teacher, just a physics teacher who sometimes had to cover the lesson.

[anewyear]

Originally Posted by Jen.

Although the same teacher also used to like playing "sock wrestling", where we were put into groups of two or three and had to roll around on the floor trying to pull each other's socks off while he walked around looking at everyone. It felt very wrong at the time, and looking back feels even more so. He wasn't even a proper PE teacher, just a physics teacher who sometimes had to cover the lesson.

I'm gonna guess.. had he planned in advance who was gonna be in each group..?? My guess is socks weren't the only things being pulled off..