School

[T.C]

Just out of curiosity really....

What was it like in the schools you went to? If this makes sense...

I mean as in : We went into three different schools :

Primary: (age 5-11) Infants/Top Infants/Juniors

Secondary:
(Middle I suppose)(Age 11-14) : 1st/2nd/3rd Year

then a different one
(Upper I suppose) (Age 14-16) : 4th and 5th Year


The final one is pretty much where all the middle schools from the area join up and go to the final upper school. Now, I have never known different, and its the way it is round our way for everyone, but Woody thinks this is odd and his school was 1st year through to 5th year in the same school, which I find odd Can't imagine having little 1st years swarming about when we were older and 'wiser' and doing our exams etc....
He also found it mental that so many 'rival' schools would suddenly join forces to make a huuuge 4th and 5th year and reckons it'd have been a recipe for violent disaster ooop North lol


Also, catching the bus to school (once primary school was done with anyway..) was the norm for us. The Middle one was approx 2-3 miles away, so you could walk it if you wanted, and we often did, down dodgy shortcuts, or sometimes caught just the normal public transport bus (I remember the fare was 8p lol) and Upper school was a good 12 mile journey away each way. Is this also weird??


So, i'm just curious / nosey ...what did your area do?



(None of this weird year 11/13 whatever shizzle for us)

 

[Harri74]

Primary school:
years 1-4

Middle school:
years 1-4

Senior School:
Years 2-5

strange but true.

There was only one senior school in our town so everyone left school eventually knowing everyone from town which made for a nice little (raving) community ..

 

[Harri74]

Also, I lived a one minute walk from school so spent most of my lunch times at home with a couple of mates watching neighbours and having a cuppa tea

 

[JD7]

Primary = 1 -7
Secondary = 1 - 6

Went to a few primary schools due to moving around.

 

[Judderz]

Infants - 1st, 2nd & 3rd year

Juniors - 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Year

Seniors - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th Year

 

[U31]

He also found it mental that so many 'rival' schools would suddenly join forces to make a huuuge 4th and 5th year and reckons it'd have been a recipe for violent disaster ooop North lol


[/QUOTE]

Innit! The inter school fighting was bad enough round here without lumping 'em all together for one giant pagga in the last 2 years!

 

[nupski]

age 4-6 i went to bridgnorth infants school
age 6-11 - St leonard's primary
age 11-17 - bridgnorth endowed
age 17-19 - shrewsbury tech
age 19-20 - southbank polytechnic

etc. i did get a job and start paying tax eventually lol

so i guess that sounds a bit more like woody's experience than urs teece, tbh i've no idea what a "middle" school is. they couldn't have merged the 2 secondary schools together in our town cos it would just end up in a big fook off gang scrap every lunch time. it did anyway lol, but that would have made things even easier

as far as buses were concerned, we moved house after the end of the first year into the catchment area of the other school (oldbury wells) so had to get the bus into town with them, learn to fight or die muthafucka lol

 

[Jiglo]

Primary school was class 1 - class 7 (1-3 was infant, 4-7 was junior). Aged 4-10 (or 11 if you were born before the summer hols started)

Secondary school was 1st - 5th year. age 11-15 (or 16 if you born before before end of exams - which was around mid may I think)

There was a bit of inter school rivalry between secondary schools when lads from 1 school would pop over to a nearby school for a fight, but they rarely came to a proper fight as most of the shithouses would run off when it came to squaring up:lol:

 

[T.C]

I liked it our way. Having a school full of just 4th and 5th years was ace , that school was a proper scream , and risky / mental as it was masses of 'middle' schools joining up meant that after the initial frosty/sceptical period, everyone (mostly) became good mates. Wouldn't have changed it for the world, wicked couple of years
I didn't want it to come to an end. Ended up staying on there for a couple of years in the Sixth Form to do my A Levels, was still good but not quite the same as obviously lots stay but lots dont, they leave and/or go off to various different colleges

I loved school , love learning and was a top top laugh with your mates

 

[T.C]

age 11-17 - bridgnorth endowed

err how dodgy does that sound lol

 

[U31]

err how dodgy does that sound lol

Well? .

 

[nupski]

err how dodgy does that sound lol

or to give it it's full title, bridgnorth well endowed

don't blame me m8 i didn't name it lol

 

[leaky]

our system was pretty straight forward

infants (years ?)
junior (years ?)
secondary (year 1 to 5) age 10 to 15

i went to 7 diff schools though, and one of them did have a 6th form if you chose to stay on, i dont understand the sytem now, they have things like reception, and year 11

 

[martin]

our system was pretty straight forward

infants (years ?)
junior (years ?)
secondary (year 1 to 5) age 10 to 15

i went to 7 diff schools though, and one of them did have a 6th form if you chose to stay on, i dont understand the sytem now, they have things like reception, and year 11

Up in Scotland i it's (SHIT)

Primary 1-7 Age 5-12

Secondary 1st Year to 4th Year Age 12-16, with the option of staying on 2 more year if desired....

Have to admit school was the best time of your life, not a worry in the world and discovering the pleasure of alcohol, meeting up with your mate's and just doing whatever, going in a bit late and getting a grilling of the parents but no giving a fuck coz you knew you were going to do it all again......

Then there was the teacher's, some really good teacher's at my school, one teacher who every guy in the school wanted to screw, she was soooo hot, and of course a few real bastards who seem to make it their priority in life to catch you everytime you stepped out of line, but you allways had the names you made up for those bastard teachers, we had Cyclops coz he had a glass eye, pick it and flick it coz he would pick his nose in class and the best one coz you could call him it to his face and get away with it, Mr Custard, his real name was Mr Clustered, brilliant, you'd say it and he'd look you straight in the eye and say"What did you say boy" , also had a total freaked out bastard of a teacher in primary, he kept a belt in a shoe box, on a pillow, he called the belt Peter, and if the class got a bit rowdy he shout "Do you want me to bring Peter out" how fucked up is that, on so many levels, obviously he did bring Peter out a few time's and slapped it on the table, we were just relieved that it was a belt

Leaky, your right about not understanding school's nowadays, my nephew was telling his dad (my brother) about his course work at school and he got onto the subject of sex education, he told his dad "the teacher gave all of us a banana and a condom and showed them how to correctly apply a condom", how the fuck could you ever look at that teacher again , the teacher also told them about "Gaylove, you may know them as poofter's, when i was at school we got 1 day of sex education, and that was just the difference in the anatomy of male's and female's, am not saying that 1 days sex ed is enough but come on to fuck........


Cheers for bringing back all those memory's TC

M...........

 

[T.C]

those bastard teachers, we had Cyclops coz he had a glass eye, pick it and flick it coz he would pick his nose in class and the best one coz you could call him it to his face and get away with it, Mr Custard, his real name was Mr Clustered, brilliant, you'd say it and he'd look you straight in the eye and say"What did you say boy" , Cheers for bringing back all those memory's TC

M...........

Funny you should mention the eye thing, we had one with a glass eye and milk bottle glasses, Mr Francis, and he was the most instant-temper bastard ever, always exploding with rage and lobbing the board rubber etc.. mind you, probably didnt help with everyone raising their hand and repeatedly asking 'How many I's in Francis, Mr Francis...' lol
and the nose picker too! - had one of those in primary school, used to unashamedly pick his nose with his biro and then mark your work with it and / or wipe it on your book , euuuwwww

and the name switching...one was Mrs Condon, so you can imagine how easily that got changed....

& My form tutor one year was Mr Bean, I kid you not silly, but amused me

There were some right bastards, dishing out detentions, lines, pointless punishment essays, confiscating stuff, making me stay behind in class to scrub the million-year old tables full of graffiti so ancient it was probably hieroglyphics just because allegedly my pen was touching the tabletop for a millisecond I only deserved some of them muhaha
The fuckers had character though, and gave as good as they got, made you strangely begrudginly respect them, or even if not...remember them all these years later.

I loved school. I dont care how geeky that sounds. Best years of your life they say... well I appreciated them at the time, not just after. Plus my home life was allover the place and towards the end of school I was stuck in a hideous relationship with a complete twat, so lets face it , school was probably a welcome escape at the time

ahh fond memories

 

[lottie]

I loved school , love knocking about behind the bike sheds sniffing glue was a top top laugh with your mates

now why doesn't that suprise me

 

[elvisontour]

school oh school

My first school went up in colours
blue class
orange class

then you went into purple or green class depending on if you required a nap lol.

then same as judderz