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!)

Solomon Grundy
Born on Monday
Christened on Tuesday
Married on Wednesday
Took ill on Thursday
Worse on Friday
Died on Saturday
Buried on Sunday
That was the end of Solomon Grundy

Wizzler I googled it just now and you are spot on (assuming 'ready' meant 'raft'). Also, the tune I immediately hummed when I read your post was absolutely right even though I last heard it 35 years ago.

How does that work, given I have no clue where I put things five minutes ago?

The school song from my secondary school gets stuck in my head for days at a time!

Oxbow lakes for me too. Also scree slopes, escarpments and

Amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatus, amant

All the words in the Jonah Man Jazz. We sang it at school in about 1981. I reminded some friends about it, and not one of them remembered. Even when I sang for them (although obviously they enjoyed it 😂)

I remember Music Time and singing "to the sound of gongs and symbols" about drought in China and the Lantern Dragon.

And another BBC schools programme (Look and Read) about 3 kids called Jackie, Trevor and Butch who saved peregrine falcons from being stolen. There was another one called the Boy from Space.

Three good men lived very long ago
Shadrach, Mesach and Abednego
To an idol they would never bow
Shadrach, Mesach and Abednego
Something something something
They were therefore cast
Nebuchadnezzar thought they'd never last
But God was there, he'd never let them go
Shadrach, Mesach and Abednego!

From my J4 (now Y6) assembly, which was a musical, possibly about Joseph?

Ah yes, the beginner Latin. The first year was orange and the last one of the year was 'Mons Vesuvius'. Quite disturbing for a year 7 text. I'm trying to remember what the name of the 'servus' (slave; I remember guessing 'servant' when I first read it) was (he and Quintus were the only Pompeii survivors IIRC).

I also remember Singing Together. 'Will ye go Lassie', and a sweet one about going down to the meadowlands (very summery), and Botany Bay, and a sea shanty or three, and one with the refrain 'Drill ye farriers drill'.

I can also remember the words to a lot of hymns.

Photosynthesis equation

UnitedRoad you want to join in this one?

Jonah, Jonah, listen to me Jonah,
Listen while I tell you of a plan I have in mind.
A city dancin',
Dancin' and romancin'
All too obviously to virtue must be blind.
Shout to the people,
Shout from every steeple,
Tell them the Judgement bell has chimed,
Tell them to stop their laughter,
Or in the Great Hereafter
What's to come is all too sure...
For...
I will smite 'em
Ad infinitum
If they will not turn to Me
Once
More....

Bit of a killjoy, really, wasn't he, the Almighty?

Aller, venir, entrer, sortir, monter, descendre, arriver, partir, rested, tourner, retourner, naitre, mourir. Verbs taking être in the passé composé. I think. It was 40 years ago 😂

Please stop calling my zebra in the class

Potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, zinc, iron, tin, copper

Or something like that! Also, the extremely hairy family playing naked Frisbee on the beach in sex Ed class. None of that waxing malarkey in the 80s!

@ChiaraRimini flavia est laeta quod cornelia cantat.

The Lords Prayer
Rechts um die ecke is right round the corner in German (you used to remember it by saying right round the bend

Flipping autocorrect. 🙄

I'm becoming alarmingly excited by all the Latin references!

Metal expands when heated and contracts when cool.

Anthrax is a spore forming bacteria often found in imported goat hair.

Anne from Richard lll:

Set down, set down your honourable load,
If honour may be shrouded in a hearse,
Whilst I awhile obsequiously lament
Th' untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster.

From Julius Caesar, Cassius to Brutus:

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Men at some time are masters of their fates.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Concentrated nitric acid renders iron passive
The teacher who taught me that said it was the one thing she remembered from her school days...

Oh yes- Jonah Man Jazz ( very 70s). When... Jonah sank into the sea he closed his eyes and prayed:"oh lord I'm very sorry that your word I disobeyed. If you will only come and save me I will do as you command- instead of treading water let me tread upon the land". Go down! Jonah! Deep in the ocean etc etc

From my J4 (now Y6) assembly, which was a musical, possibly about Joseph?

Is it the Daniel Jazz?

That's where I learnt about Shadrach, Mesach and Abednego, anyway.

One of the lines of our school hymn.

‘Daughters and mothers of England to be’.

😂😂😂

that Daniel Jazz is a bit confused. twernt no Christians in the court of Nebuchadnezzar.

SOCR
Sidlaw Hills, Ochil Hills, Campsie Fells and Renfrew Heights.

Hill ranges from right to left across Central Scotland. Sadly never had a use for this info.

Omg! Haven't thought about the Daniel Jazz in over 50 years.
We had to click our fingers and sway to 'Dan-iel was the chief hir-ed man in the land. He stirred up the jazz in the pal-ace band'. Remember it so clearly

The main thing I took from primary school and still use is instant recall of number bonds of 13. 9+4, 8+5, 7+6. Thanks Mr Hutchinson!

How to remember the order of the planets:

My
Very
Efficient
Memory
Just
Stores
Up
Nine
Planets