School stuff that has stubbornly stuck in your head

[SlayingDragons]

Just that really - what has stuck in your head since you were at school?

• I remember a poem I had to learn in P5 for a Christmas concert. It was 30 years ago now but I can still recite it word for word. (It wasn’t short either!)

• I can recount every county in Ireland in alphabetical order.

• I can direct you to the train station in German just so long as it is straight ahead, take the first street on the right, second on the left and the station is on the right hand side.

(Useful stuff like how to work out the angles in a triangle so I can help my first year with her homework - not so much!)

FeltCarrot

You know La Famille Marsaud too

The mnemonic for remembering some nerves, but I can’t remember which!
On Old Olympus’ Towering Top
A Fat Armed Girl Ventured A Hop.

Does anybody remember the Village With Three Corners, the infant reading scheme. Billy Blue Hat, Roger Red Hat and Johnny and somebody Yellow Hat, who was the only girl in the books but whose name to my shame I have forgotten?

@Hovverry Cranial nerves👍🏻

Jennifer Yellow Hat!

(And that’s ALL I remember about those books).

I can still play the National Anthem on the recorder.

The songs we sang in assembly from Come and Praise. My DD came home singing Autumn days the other day and I could sing every word with her.

The MR GRENS 7 characteristics of living things: Movement, Reproduction, Growth, Respiration, Excretion, Nutrition, Sensitivity. Plus the Lords Prayer in Welsh!!

Loved your post 🇿🇼

From geology : Pregnant camels often sit down carefully perhaps thier joints creak terribly.

ox bow lakes of course but also
there was a right hand rule and a left hand rule, which had to do with the directions of electric current, magnetic field and motion in a motor...but not exactly sure how

( went to COS primary school in the 80’s)

• all the hymns- bashed out on a wooden piano at assembly time and we would all be sitting on the wooden floor in assembly belting them out -“ give me joy in my heart “ etc
• felt board bible stories - headmaster acted out bible stories on a felt board with small felt bible characters
• overhead projectors -used at assemblies to sing ( more ) hymns or learn Christmas stories etc
• tv time in the library - huge heavy tv wheeled into the library where we all sat cross legged and watched mildly spooky “ kids “ tv programs ( WTF was that show with dragons and set in like a chalk quarry )
• using the at the time top of the range computers to do challenges like - the green dragon wants to eat an apple , do you have the key ?( what was that dragon computer program )

Many fond memories ...

What is this that roareth thus?
Can it be a motorbus?
Yes the noise and hideous hum
Indicat motorem bum

Or something...

And the electro negativity series in chemistry.

So useful...

And the US pledge of allegiance

The year 1066, Battle of Hastings and the last time England was successfully invaded.

“I before E, except after C.”

In sixth grade, we had to learn a Preposition song. It was sung to the tune of “Yankee Doodle” and listed out all (or at least most of) the prepositions. Each of us had to stand in front of the classroom and sing the song to the class.

I still remember the Monarchs of England poem from primary school

Willie Willie Harry Stee
Harry Dick John Harry three;
One two three Neds, Richard two
Harrys four five six... then who?
Edwards four five, Dick the bad,
Harrys (twain), Ned (the lad);
Mary, Bessie, James you ken,
Then Charlie, Charlie, James again...
Will and Mary, Anna Gloria,
Georges four, Will , Victoria;
Edward seven next, and then
Came George the fifth in nineteen ten;
Ned the eighth soon abdicated
Then George six was coronated;
After which Elizabeth
And that's all folks until her death.

Sing Hosanna! Sing Hosanna! Sing Hosanna to the king OF KINGS (which a few kids would incorrectly shout out on the next line)

The owl and the Pussycat went to sea...

Oxbow lakes

Long shore drift

Bonjour monsieur, bonjour Madame
Bonjoir mademoiselle
Je me presente, je m’appelle... Helen Dupious
Helen c’est mon prenom
Dupious ma nom de famille
(Or something like that)
Plus several other basic French and German songs about the weather, pets, months of the year

Lord’s Prayer

Isometric, oblique etc drawings
And I can draw perfectly straight lines without a ruler on a3 paper.... a true life skill 🙄

Oh and alllllll the hymns esp the traditional Xmas carols

All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great & small .....

Amo
Amas
Amat
Amamus
Amatus
Amant

Latin taught some really useless phrases. It was all about cattle and such like.

I can say I have blonde hair in German (I don't)

Erosion, Disposition. The geography teacher used to stab the board with her pen on these two points.

Appeeeeeaasssemnt. The history teacher said it like this.

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, still a favourite.

"Have you seen this QUAM?" This was the title of a handout provided by my humorous Latin teacher (who also loved Ecce Romani). He wrote that "this pesky little blighter QUAM is capable of disguising himself into four different identities", before going on to explain how to recognise them, concluding with the pearl of wisdom "...otherwise he is sure to cause you bovver, and attack your exam mark".

There was also a list of old Latin quotes on the wall, with their translations, to which was added "You know, Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas any more". I don't remember what the Latin was for this, though!

I still remember almost every hymn in the come and praise book, and that’s about it

Some hymns and carols we always sang in Latin at my school (High Church) - I still automatically start singing them in latin at carols services etc until I pull myself into the present day and have to read the english words from the hymn book.
Our latin teacher also taught us some traitional songs he had translated into latin - so I know things like 'Clementine' better in latin. No idea why they have stuck - probably because we spent so much time singing hymns at my school while incense was waved around
I also know a lot of psalm - we used to drone these endlessly and for some reason I remember the words (again frequent repetition presumably) psalms surely being the most tuneless, useless thing to store in your memory.

45 years ago - and I can't remember anything useful from school, only the utterly useless stuff