Can you remember your first day at school.

[postman]

i can remember my first day vividly and it was 1955.
I screamed,bawled and cried in the Heads office,which came as a surprise to the staff-------------i was the Headmaster,no i have just recalled the same story and i cried all the first day,even after being bribed with sweets.

 

[ASC1951]

I just couldn't believe the unfairness of it all when I was told I had to go the next day as well....

 

[biggs682]

no i cant , i can remember later days where a lot of the boys got floured by Anne Carpenter and 1 other girl who i cant remember her name

 

[PaulB]

I was very disappointed as I went home and told my mother I hadn't got my gift. She asked what I'd meant and the teacher had said to me, 'Just stand there for the present' and so I stood there expecting something nice but it never arrived.

 

[Theseus]

Yes, my mum drove me while making my big sister walk.

I had to walk the next day as well

We had small bottles milk that had sat all morning on the radiators and we played with wooden model see-saws that you put different wieghts along the arms of at different distances.

 

[RaRa]

I can remember mine vividly. I was 4 and had been let in a year early as apparently I was "precocious" which I think was a nice way of booting me out of playschool! The girl sat next to me was called Katie Price and she cried for the entire day and a boy called Robin wet himself twice and ended up in the spare girls pants.

 

[Herbie]

i can remember my first day vividly and it was 1955.
I screamed,bawled and cried in the Heads office,which came as a surprise to the staff-------------i was the Headmaster,no i have just recalled the same story and i cried all the first day,even after being bribed with sweets.

Yes i remember it well...Keith primary school Morayshire 1968 lots of kids greetin!

 

[400bhp]

No I can't remember.

 

[GetAGrip]

Taken to the classroom by my Mum, then she waived bye and left. Shown where to hang my coat by the teacher, then, told her my full name as requested.......three times (had a surname that people just seemed to want repeated), sat at my desk. Looking around the room to see which kids were making the crying noises. I so wanted to cry as well, but took big gulps and refused to give in.
Quite liked listening to music after dinner though, when we all lay and rested for a short time on mats.

 

[byegad]

Very clearly. We stood around in a group of kids and mothers until our names were called when the children were lined up and we walked into school. My first coat peg had a butterfly on it which disgusted me as I wanted the one with a racing car!

There again I distinctly remember eating an ice cream (Really the end of a normal cone with some ice cream scooped out of my mothers larger cone.) and leaning out to feed a passing dog. I was strapped in but mam was worried I'd get bitten. Another is of sitting eating a proper ice cream cone in Whitby and looking around and being unable to see my parents. They were there, but a few paces away taking my photo with a box Brownie, and I still have the picture in my mother's album. Can't have been more than 2 in either of these incidents and probably younger.

My whole family, on my mother's side, seems to have had a similar recall of early memories.

 

[Cubist]

I remember being really excited and pleased to be going. Mrs Clarke the teacher was great, but I can remember the Robinson Twins bawling their eyes out for ages.

 

[Flyingfox]

No, I've killed too many brain cells since then!
I do remember getting expelled from school dinners when I was 5 though - all because I refused to eat my carrots and had a tantrum. It put me off eating carrots until in my 20's and I still don't really like them.

 

[beanzontoast]

I cried.

Then I discovered they had plasticene and the world came right.

 

[byegad]

My younger son remembers his second day at school very well. He was nearly expelled.

Standing in the lunch queue a boy from the 'top class' pushed in front of him as he had the day before. Younger son tapped him on the shoulder and nutted him in the face, breaking the older boy's nose.

A nasty interview at school for the then Mrs Byegad followed that evening. Who's somewhat immortal reply to the question as to what she propose to do about this was as follows.
'Nothing, but how come it's school policy to encourage bullying?'
No more was said, and David kept his place in the dinner queue from then on.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I remember it clearly, it was 1981. I was non-plussed that my mum expected me to know Adrian Crossland (some kid in my class) and was utterly bemused by the whole episode until I was introduced to the school library (which being rural Suffolk was a single shelf on a narrow corridor) and was chuffed silly that I was allowed to take a Bod book home.