General Chat

We had a new P.E teacher who decided we should learn to play lacrosse. We hated it when it was our turn to stand in goal because it took forever and a day to get kitted up, ...then just as long after the lesson to take off all the padding again before running through the dreaded communal shower.
Only one other school in our part of Hampshire played this game, so not alot of competition.
I've never watched a game since my school days.

Gwyn

we spent weeks learning this poem in junior school for a class play, and i dont know why, but we ended up not doing it !!!!

I am a toad, a friendly thing
i eat your slugs and flies
i know im ugly brown and squat
but have you seen my eyes

just look at them like jewels rare
gleaming in my head
i watch you with them as i sit
upon your garden bed

please like me little girls and boys
i cant help how i grew
ive got to be a toad you know
and you have got to be you



funny what daft things stay in your head eh lol

xxLynnxx

Definately Sewing. My sewing teacher hated me. She would always pick on me and find fault in whatever I tried to make. Took me 3 years to make a blouse. That's probably why I hate sewing.
Love crocheting and Knitting though and taught myself that. Who needs a teacher.
Sewing teachers name I always remember it was Miss Lee. We all called her OLD MA LEE
We used to sing a song about her when she wasn't in the room. She used to pop out the back to have a quick fag. Wish I could think of that song. Now I'm OLD and forgetful lol.
Regards
Jackie

In one biology lesson we had to count the segments of a pickled earth worm but mine broke so I threw it behind the radiator and counted what was left!

I had sewing in Junior school - we had to make a pair of knickers - french seams and all that. Took them home and my Dad said to Mum, don't let her wear those out in a high wind or we'll never see her again!! They were voluminous and bright pink!

Our biology lesson covered the reproductive system of the earthworm.

I left school before I learnt about girls.

Oh, the innocence of youth.

Algebra,most certainly,I still dont know what its uses are:-))lol

I started the thread so I,ll post another one.
(They rewarded this teacher with a trophy)

He that knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool - shun him.

He that knows not and knows that he knows not, is a child, teach him.

He that knows and knows not that he knows, is asleep, wake him.

He that knows, and knows that he knows, is a wise man - follow him.

Happy days

we had a sewing lesson once a week and I hated sewing I just didn't see the point of it. I remember having to make a pencil slim skirt-I said to the teacher-why am I doing this, I don't wear skirts-she said cos I had to-when I finished it I chucked it in the bin
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xx

Ive just looked up Violet Elizabeth Chilleystone she died aged 86, well I'm blowed !!

Our English teacher claimed to have taught Jean Simmonds the actress, Miss Hartwell always came in with dirty gardening hands and drew circles round our mistakes until there were holes in the page !
We gals... would end up working in Woolworths if we didnt work hard. Well someone has to work there ?

singing - we had "On wings of Song" and "The Cambells are coming" which I always thought was "The camels are coming" I also thought that Abysinnia was in Wales - everything in Wales is Aber something or other!! Maths teacher, Miss Chilcott was an absolute bitch - used to ask a question and then stand tosssing the chalk up and down in her hand while she waited for the answer. She never got one from me cos I was so s..t scared when she spoke to me I never actually heard the question!! Vowed I would kill her if I ever met her when I left school. Saw her a few years back at the school centenary and couldn't believe the old bitch was still on the go - they say the good die young - true in her case

We had a music teacher who was Miss Chilleystone every lesson started with

Early one morning, Who is Sylvia and Greensleeves.!Word perfect!

Like Ros - definitely Algebra and Trig + Logarithms! .....and decimal coinage - etc. to this day I struggle (without a calculator) to multiply or divide them!

The maths teacher used to say I was wasting his time - and I would reply that I felt my time was being wasted - and then get detention for insolence.... so after a while I just didn't attend the lessons.

How useful to Know the difference between a cow and a bull LOL

Domestic science, runny apple crumble and inedible stews.

What were Logarithums for and all those tables. When did you last use an adjective with a pronoun? Future perfect and past participles ? Who knows the rules of Hockey.

Boy were we ever prepared for the big bad world !!!!

did sound very unlikely didn't it!! strange but true as they say

sex lessons were given free in the playground when I was at school.

I did not believe a word of it!!

Deanna X

Colin - the nearest we ever got to sex in Grammar school was the reproduction process of the common fern - stimulating it was not!

Latin Mythology - only comes in useful in crosswords!!

Stood up in class and asked the teacher what good would this subject be to me in later life - she went mental!!! Replied "What do you keep in that curly head of yours"!!!!!!!!!

Grammar........... no one uses it much these days, have you noticed the news readers??

AND..... how to make an Apple ball, with custard!!

It's an apple pie for one.;-0(
Once married I had to make apple pies for 'many'.
That is all I can remember at the moment.

Deanna X

Ros they only teach you algebra and trigonometry so you can help your kids with it in later life who wont use it either lol