Published on 12, July, 2020
I didn't like school much espech secondary because it was a huge school and I was bullied a lot
Primary school was ok at first because I went to a really small school which was actually an old building
This was it
It's since been turned in to flats sadly :(
My secondary school was monstrous lol XD I hated it from start to finish.
I enjoyed learning but I would have preferred doing it from home :)
Sometimes I miss school but mostly its bad memories.
In the hall at my first school we did a Christmas show and sang silent night together my mum has it on video it's a strange video because I'm only small and don't really look like me now.
I’m most probably the same as many, Infant School was small and not too bad, Primary School was slightly bigger and had corporal punishment, I just kept my head down and went mostly unnoticed until I started seeing a ‘special’ teacher. Secondary School was just horrible, can’t say I enjoyed a single day. The transition from Primary to Secondary was like being thrown into The Colosseums Gladiator pit. The bullying was on an epic scale, I think it’s where we learn to mask very quickly. Debbie mentioned vocational lessons, I would have loved that, in the last year of school a group of boys would be allowed to attend the local college for motor vehicles studies, I had been working on classic cars since I was about 8 but wasn’t allowed to go as I was in the top sets for English and maths, all the popular boys were chosen and none went on into the motor industry. I would often see the minibus return late afternoon out of a window while that year reading ‘A Brave New World’ and ‘1984’ ( yawn), strangely it was 1984. I went to the college a year later and three years after that obtained my City & Guilds in Motor Vehicle Design, Construction and Components. Quite liked college, I was treated as an adult and not called just by my surname, Mr. was added! The maths did turnout handy as the course involved a lot of calculations in Physics. Only small classes but 8.30am to 8.00pm so exhausting. I actually found my certificates a few weeks ago while clearing the attic out, we had to take a second subject, I found a certificate for City & Guilds with distinction in Communication Skills! My wife said, “how the blo*dy hell did you get that?” Answer was, “Simple, I just had to attend every lesson and I did!”
Roy said:Debbie mentioned vocational lessons, I would have loved that,
In the school my husband went to, Portsmouth Technical High School, he learnt:
Brick laying, plastering, painting and decorating (home), metalwork including using lathes and a forge, woodwork laboratory, a full screenprinting lab, etching and paper crafts eg. pencil boxes, blotters, marbling.
He still uses these skills today.
A totally amazing school that I would have loved to have gone to but I suspect girls would have been taught 'home' skills.
I just learnt cooking and needlework at my school.
I think that those TH schools were a superb idea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_technical_school