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!)

Tom Cat Sat On An Orange And Howled Horribly written in columns for trigonometry ;
Tom On. And
Cat. An. Howled
Sat. Orange Horribly

Music - Every Good Boy Deserves Favours

The ink is black,
The page is white,
Together we learn to read and write,
To read and write.

Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain.

How to do your 9 times tables on your fingers.

Wiring a plug bLue goes to the Left and bRown goes to the Right.

James Maysmith invented the steam hammer.

Oxbow lakes

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree

Please stop calling my zebra in the class.

Mnemonic for remembering the reactivity series.

I am another oxbow lake expert.
I also know more than I care to about the spinning Jenny.

GERMBIN
Growth , excretion , reproduction, movement, breathe , irritability, nutrition

Ecce! In pictura est puella nomine Cornelia. Cornelia est puella Romana quae in Italia habitat. Etiam in pictura est altera puella nomine Flavia. (I could go on)

That fats are made up of fatty acids and glycerol.

that the loopy bit in the diagram of the kidney is the Loop of Henlé (what's a Henlé? Eggs)

SOHCAHTOA

Wie comme ich am besten zum bahnhoff?
Gehen zie gerade aus und nehmen zie die erste straße links.

Oxbow lakes

Hay empanadas?

Quinte sub abore sedet

Autumn days song.

I can also get to and from a German station by asking the way.

How to make a scotch egg

Simon Made Vanessa Eat Mud Just So Uncle Nathan Played.
The order of the planets, before pluto got downgraded.

Adeste, fideles,
Laeti triumphantes,
Venite, venite in Bethlehem!
Natum videte,
Regem angelorum

Venite, adoremus!
Venite, adoremus!
Venite, adoramus Dominum!
Venite, adoramus Dominum!

En grege relicto
Humiles ad cunas,
Vocati pastores adproperant,
Et nos ovanti,
Gradu festinemus.

Venite, adoremus!
Venite, adoremus!
Venite, adoramus Dominum!
Adeste, fideles,
Laeti triumphantes,
Venite, venite in Bethlehem!
Natum videte,
Regem angelorum.

Venite, adoremus!
Venite, adoremus!
Venite, adoramus Dominum!

This was a state school too.

Another person who did Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo. In fact I did it twice, once as a child and again as a student teacher! The missing part if the verse is 'and mosquitos' ☺ . When I did it as a child, one teacher rigged up a huge wooden ark that was hinged at the front. When Mrs Noah leant over to lose her hat, the ark crashed to the floor in the performance to the parents!

Bloody hymns! I can’t cross a road without ‘cross over the road my friend, ask the lord his strength to lend’

The opening monologue to Romeo and Juliet

The poem about the world -

long legged Italy
Kicked poor Sicily
Into the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.
Austria was Hungary
Took a bit of turkey
Dipped it in Greece
Fried it in Japan and
Ate it off China

Old Andrew Threw All His Cares Over His Shoulder.

Gold leaf electroscope & ox bow lakes!

Sex On Hard Concrete Always Hurts, Try Other Alternatives. The best way to remember the trig ratios. I teach college level maths.

pristinecondition never heard or did this at school but my 4 to has just just learnt this. I love it!

4 yo. Damn auto correct

Vandertramp (mnemonic for the French verbs which take être as an auxiliary, rather than avoir.)

Socahtoa

Puellae sub arbe sedent. Also, they spent terms and terms (or so it seemed,) trying to trahunt raedam ex bloody fossa.

Odio et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiring. Nescio, sed sentio fieri et excrucior. Plus lots of other random bits of Catullus.

Quite a few bits of Wilfred Owen, dulce et décorum est.

Loads of verb, noun, pronoun tables in French and Latin.

Lots of Nazi propaganda phrases like Kinder, Kirche, Küche. (We did the Third Reich for A-level history.)

The 6 points of the People's Charter, though usually, I can only remember 5, but never the same 5...

And a ton of other stuff. I work in IT, so I use some of the stuff like binary and algebra daily.

German dative prepositions
Aus, bei, mit, nach, seit, von, zu, gegenuber.
Said really quickly for extra showing off ness.

Singing Mellow Yellow in a class assembly in reception.
Falling over one of those skippet Toys when I was 5. It had a green chain and a pink sparkly ball.
For some reason learning about weathering in year 7 Geography. I remember the picture in the textbook and everything !

Oh and circumferance equals pi times diameter. Area equals pi times radius squared. We had to chant it!

uhare I am loving the Latin phrases. I'm actually reading them in English rather than having to think about the translation, which I think is either sad or reflective of how scary Mrs Cassidy was!

At the start of every German lesson, if we wanted to take our blazers off we had to ask in German.

That is the only German that I can remember

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Jabberwockoy by Lewis Carroll

Rock bird - and
An auf hinter in neben über unter for zwischen?

Popea est in atrium. Other bits of Latin. My Latin teacher was a Miss English.