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!)

Cations are pussytive (positive)

Nothing.

Both my primary and secondary schools were crap. We had no science or MFL teachers.

The single thing I can remember is the Lord’s Prayer.

A thou-s-and me-ters makes a kil-o-me-ter 🎵

Here are my two drops of rain, waiting on the window pane.
I am waiting here to see, which the winning one will be...
Both of them have different names; one is John and one is James...

Amo , amas, Amat, amamis, amarmis amant.

A convent education is so useful

Oh, oh, oh it’s a lovely war!
Who wouldn’t be a soldier, eh?
Oh it’s a shame to take the pay.
Form fours, right turn
What shall we do with the money we earn?
Oh, oh, oh it’s a lovely war!

Then he who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered seed.

Parable of the talents which the headmaster read at beginning and end assembly every term! All it taught me was a boring story doesn't get any better by repeat and I learnt the art of zoning out by the 2nd year.

A Humanities teacher who said that the only way I would get to work with people is if I was a toilet attendant :(
Am happy to say that he was wrong!

At my Catholic school, I remember the priest teaching us how to say our evening prayers - we had to chant
"not in the bed
not on the bed
not under the bed
but BY the bed"

"Long hair SHOULD be tied back".

Instruction from home economics class.

Never Eat Cake Eat Salmon Sandwiches And Remain Young
NECESSARY

Delightfully bonkers Bavarian German teacher ensured I will never forget "Wir sind sie lustige holzhackerbaum" and subsequent yodelling (We are the big strong lumberjacks, I believe. He brought his lederhosen in for the performance...)

Just about everything and every descant from Carols For Choirs.

The varied delights of visiting La Rochelle (thank you, Tricolore).

Longshore drift. And German prepositions - aus bei mit nach seit von zu gegenuber durch ohne gegen wieder um fur entlang uber unter hinter vor neben zwichen auf an in. They are in order for some reason, no idea what anymore.

The owl and the pussycat poem.

How to spell Mississippi

@PristineCondition cauliflowers fluffy is still a harvest festival banger now

I was so excited when I realised a campsite I stayed on recently was a real oxbow lake

Darf ich die jacke meine Vest
Est-ce je peux enlever ma veste.
I hated wearing blazers in German and French.

How to test a variagated leaf to see if photosynthesis produces starch.
Boil the leaf in alcohol by using a test tube in a beaker of water*
Now the cell walls are broken down, idodine will turn from brown to black in the presence of starch where the leaf was green.

*this is where is all went horribly wrong and etched the incident firmly into mine, and many others' minds. Do not boil alcohol directly over the bunsen burner...

"A lot" are two seperate words.

A little bit of heaven fell from out the sky one day.
It landed in the ocean not so very far away.
The general at the radar screen, he rubbed his hands with glee,
And grinning, pressed the button that started World War Three.

Icarus Allsorts, Roger McGough

22÷7= pi

The Girls Can Flirt And Other Queer Things Can Do.

Mohs scale of hardness mnemonic.

I
Isti
It
Imus
Istis
Erant

Eram
Eras
Erant
Eramus
Eratus
Erant

Salve condiscipuli...
SALVE MAGISTRA!

Supermum you’re wonderful but very underpaid!
Supermum you’re cook and cleaner, handyman and maid!
If you put in a bill for all the work you do,
There’d be an awful lot of wages due!

Special People Eat Cornflakes In A Lighthouse ( special).

Never Eat Shredded Wheat ( NESW)

"Love is like a magic penny
Hold it tight and you won't have any "
And
Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea ( can't remember much more )

All handy to know.......

Sir Olivers Horse = Sine: Opposite/Hypotenuese
Came Ambling Home : Cosine : Adjacent/Hypotenuese
To Olivers Aunt : Tangent: Opposite/Adjacent

Trigonomety, but buggered if I can remember what Sine/cosine and tangent actually refer to

dogwufbacc

The ability to recite The Jabberwocky
Me too

SohCahToa/Combs are handy since our hair touches our ankles - I genuinely use this all the time.

Every time I bring out my sewing machine I remember my teacher showing me how to thread a machine and other bits and bobs and I'd love to thank her.

I'm still an amateur seamstress but it gives me such pleasure that it is easily the best thing I learnt at school.

My DD are constantly amazed that I know the sane hymns as them. I went to a CoE primary in the 1980s, they go to a CoE primary in the 2010s.