School In The Fifties...

[Atheist]

'Some talk of Alexander and some of Hercules...'
Pumps in a wire grille locker... Wireless programmes suggesting we should imitate a tree...
Do these stir any memories?

[douglas9401]

The sixties but, Noye's Fludde, 'shoot me now' was the refrain.

[Atheist]

"With his one eye on the pot and the other up the chimney with a tow row row...

[shoota]

I never managed to do it J, used to get kept in after school until they gave up...
Still hopeless with numbers now.

[shoota]

Trying to choose; sherbet dip or a lucky bag...

[jourdain2]

Thanks, Atheist. I'm sorry you thought I wasn't nice, feel a bit lowered by that. Trying to remember so much at the moment - thank you for the original post. There was 'Jimmy cracked corn - and I don't care' and 'Oh Jemima look at your uncle Jim - he's in the water learning how to swim'. So many others tugging at my memory from Ferniehurst County Primary School - gave us all a wonderful education …. now, alas, a new housing estate. :(

[albaqwerty]

gave up on sherbet dips when the sherbet refused to go up the liquorice straw.
2d for a lucky bag

Music and movement - nooooo
I knew there was a reason I'd banished them to the bottom of my memories.

All that was in the late 60's, not 50's

Sandshoes, gym bag and no locker.

[Captain2]

.... or the 4d frozen Jubbly that lasted the whole walk home.

https://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory/jubbly-frozen-drinks

[shoota]

Fat wax crayons and powder paint...

[sanmac]

There were still brick air-raid shelters standing in the cindered play-ground when I first went to school. Why the teachers told us not to play in them I have no idea...It was, obviously, a complete waste of breath on their part.

[Jonathan-Joe]

The wireless programmes for singing were "Singing Together" and "Rhythm and Melody".

[albaqwerty]

outside toilets which froze in the winter.

[Atheist]

Jourdain; I do get mixed up with all the people here. Some with lovely characters but horrid politics and vice versa. All potentially nice. Jimmy crack... I remember well from the wireless. Jemima not at all. Best to take people as they were as children and forget their current selves. Nice to hear from you.

[sandyRoe]

We called pumps gutties.
First lesson each morning RE.
Mass in a local church on the 1st Friday of each month

[jourdain2]

Thank you Jonathan Joe - 'Singing Together'. We all went into the one classroom which had a radio, tambourines etc.. I got told off for singing too loudly and it put me off singing for over 40 years - now I'm lead (sometimes only) alto in a choir! (Thanks to a very kind, musical lady.)

[jourdain2]

Atheist - I try not to mix up politics with people. :)

[shoota]

Joined up writing and blotty pens...


(I may be in the 60's now)

[Jonathan-Joe]

Jarvis Cocker remembers the long-running BBC radio programme Singing Together.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b04stc6c

[roopower]

We had plimsols in Suffolk and a huge television on a frame that had to be moved from classroom to classroom........and Miss Sexton who wouldnt let me go to the toilet and then smacked me when I wet myself. ( I was anout five)

[mallyh]

desk with inkwells .warm milk ,standing when teachers came into room .getting wrapped around knuckles ,,,,happy days

[grumpy01]

I remember travel talks on the big wooden frame radio and Mrs. Selwood introducing us to Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.Happy days.