General Chat

I hated netball, too, Maddie! From Year Three to Year Eleven, that was all we seemed to do for at least one term every year and I loathed it.

At secondary school, mainly because - a, I was useless, and b, the teachers always picked about four girls from the netball team to head each "team" in PE (half the year would do PE all together at the same time, then the other half at another time during the week, so there'd be around 50 girls playing at any one time). Of course the chosen team captains then had to pick their team from the rest of us. I was always, always in the last six or seven - the ones who were useless at PE or perhaps we just made it too obvious that we hated the game!?

(I should like to point out that I still hold it against my high school that they wouldn't let girls play cricket! At primary school we all played cricket - girls and boys - but we got to Year Seven and after that the boys got to play cricket. The girls had to play rounders, which I also hated.)

oh, and the nearest we got to sex lessons was the reproductive life of a fern - dirty little buggers they are!!!!

I set fire to the side of my hair in the science lab when I leaned to close to a bunsen burner!!! doesn't half stink!!!

I learned about PLUTO - pipeline under the ocean - something to do with someone called Sir Richie Calder - that's all I remember of that one

I liked science teacher,Mrs.Storm,(who was also our form tutor) and Biology,but it was the 'smelly' experiments I was useless at,and could never remember names of elements etc!

I liked Science I had a good Science teacher she was my form tutor too ...... Cant remember her name but she was dead strict, I often wonder what happened to her.

Anything taught after Primary school!!
There I had a love of learning.
Once I got into grammar school nothing had any sense!!
I learnt more doing 'voluntary work' that I set up for myself in a local institution to avoid PE, double games and RE!!!

Oh how I loved netball!! lol........goalkeeper for school team, three years running....and we won the cup & shields! not that i'm bragging like ;o) *polishes fingernails on lapel lol

Now science was another matter! couldn't fathom it at all.......a complete dunce in those lessons. :o(

Nice to see you Harry......... school days were happy days for me!

Hockey>>>>>>>>>runs off looking behind still visualizing the sticks behind chasing me...

I was picked as a reserve for the house hockey team... god knows why cause I couldn't play for toffee lol. 3/4's through the game thinking nah not gonna play-brill, one of my teammates gets a wallop on the back and crashes to the deck... have a guess who has to come on in her place...ME. The ref couldn't understand why when the ball came near me I ran the opposite way... no bleeding way was I gonna get battered with them sticks cause they hurt.

Still can't play hockey...

The most useless things I learned....at school...

How to do lines...never had to do them since...

How to stand in the corner with my face in it!!!.....never had to do it since....

How to run through a freezing cold shower, after games....never had to do it since..

ITA - wasn't even the english alphabet


wonder if in years to come children of today will say phonics ?

Dont start on Netball Sue ...Oooh I shudder at the thought. My eldest sis was netball champ ...so later on when I came along being a beanpole and a foot taller than the rest of my class and lanky all the teachers thought I was the next netball queen!!

Prob is throw a ball at me and I run in the opposite direction - still do!!

Oh how I hated netball!!

Simultaneous equations!

What was the point? Not exactly useful for every day.

Long multiplication. I even had to teach that but I bet those I taught use a calculator just like me now!

Netball. Oh how I hated netball. Almost as much as hockey LOL. Boring.......... and taller girls always got picked first for the teams. When I was lucky I got to hand round the orange segments at half time for school matches.

Sue

lol Von

There are as many molecules in a grain of sand, as there are grains of sand on a beach.

My contribution to science.

Latin - I bunked off most lessons and was always told it was a valuable lesson ...... I can say I have never said to myself - Damn I wish had tried harder in Latin!

The Duke of Windsor's names were Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David.

If ever a piece of knowledge held me in good stead for life.

Uzzi thats my biggest regrett never learnt to sew..

Aof GG no I hated them at the time but now I wish I had spent more time in history

when I look back, History and Geography should have been the most exciting things in the world to learn about, but were they? They were not

hayley I loved woodwork had to fight to be allowed to do it rather then sewing