Do you remember tour last day at primary school ?

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I don’t, I only remember the leavers school disco

I remember. My mum forgot to pick me up and I went home with a neighbour.

No. Don't remember my last day at secondary school either. It was a long time ago though!

I remember the first. I'm not sure I was there for the last, we usually took the last 2-3 weeks off to go on holiday.

I remember shirt signing. Don't remember a leavers' assembly. Don't think there was anything parents were invited to. Don't get why they are now really.

I have no memory whatsoever of leaving g either primary or secondary.

I remember the shitty assembly at the end of the school day,and the nasty twat of a bully headteacher standing behind his crappy podium while telling us 'you are always welcome back for a visit if you miss us'

I remember thinking 'Why on earth would we want to come back to this hellhole?'

I don't remember anything else-we had no fanfare or anything else,no disco,no hoodies,no saying goodbye or tears-just a normal day and then we left to go home

Some kids did try to go back to visit a few weeks later (after school hours) and that vile arsehole headmaster rang the police and tried to have them arrested for trespass!

Yes! We had a party in the classroom and my friend brought her new Jagged Edge album in, which the teacher allowed us to listen to despite its “explicit content” warning. I had my Bang on the Door ‘Groovy Chick’ notebook which I got everyone to sign with their email address and phone number (lots of landlines, of course). We cried, signed shirts, and then after school one of the parents had hired the hall next door and a DJ, but I missed most of it because my best friend spent the night crying in the toilets when Daniel B said he didn’t want to be her boyfriend and wouldn’t keep in touch with her.

Ahh. Memories.

No not at all, we didn't sign our shirts either!

I remember last day of secondary school though, some of us went to the pub and I got served a pint of beer and I smoked a cigars I stole from my dad (probably thought I was being cool)!

No, and I did it twice. I lived in an area where primary school finished at the end of year 5 then moved to do year 6 in a primary school somewhere else. Both times I left and went to a school where I didn’t know anyone else. I don’t really remember the last days of high school after GCSEs or sixth form either.

Yes, and I still have The Bible that I was given when I left. I also still have the mug I was given when I finished sixth form.

Yes I do.
I cried a lot. My primary was such a lovely bubble, we scattered for secondary. I think we were all aware of how much change was coming with secondary.

No, not a thing. I remember year 6 residential in the Wye Valley pretty well but the last day, nada. Don't think it was a big deal.

I left primary in 2003 and we did a leavers assembly and put on a small production the theme of which was I’m a Celebrity 😂 I remember having to stick my hand in a box of beans/mashed potatoes or something similar lol.
We then did a choreographed dance to Scandalous by MisTeeq!
We were all given a bible (C of E school) and a little gold coin thing that was inscribed.

Yes! And I'm 46 now 😆

We had a leavers mass and all signed each other's shirts etc. I remember feeling really sad.

I remember it, no big fuss, we said goodbye to our main teacher, I walked home.

No. It was mid 80's. Nothing special, shirts weren't signed or anything.

I dont but I think i probably blocked it out as going to high school gave me serious anxiety. That summer was ruined for my whole family. I went from a village school with about 12 P7s to a High school with several hundred S1s

Can't remember a thing about leaving primary school

I remember my walk home on the last day of Secondary. May 1980. Me & a girl who I knew well, always did the walk together. We were in the same class but not best friends. We said a cheery ‘bye’ to each other as we went our separate ways. It was so casual as we’d done that walk nearly every day for the previous few years and I somehow expected we’d bump into each other or something. Never saw her again.
I’m 60 now, was 15 then. I’ve often wondered what she did and how her life turned out. Just seemed a bit sad.

Our leaving week was cut short because I think the school always carried 3 days of holiday over into the next term, and we suddenly told they couldn't do it, so instead of finishing on the Friday with a week of fun things, we finished on the Tuesday, with only about a couple of days' notice.

We were meant to have a leavers' assembly, and an end of school year assembly, and a trip to London (big deal from Lancashire), and a day of fun activities.

It got condensed into one assembly and a very short disco. As a compensation (!) they told us we could wear our new school uniform for the next school (going to lots of different schools)on the last day of term. I didn't think this was great. 😂On the bright side we got to see the form queen bee in the completely hideous uniform for the all girls' private she was down for. Why do all girls' have such dreadful tastes in uniform?

They always gave all leavers a dictionary which traditionally you went round and got all the teachers to sign. I still have mine somewhere.

We had a song to sing for the leavers' assembly which went something like:

Chorus:
End of the term, end of the year
It's time to say
"Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye"

School:
You are moving on
Next year you'll be gone
We'll miss you, you've helped us so
We don't want to see you go (chorus)

Leavers:
We aren't going far
We'll come and tell you how we are
<can't remember the rest>

I've never seen it anywhere else, so maybe it was written especially for us. I remember feeling sad, but at the same time quite excited. I don't remember tears from anyone either.

I remember the leavers assembly in primary school very well. The leavers song, especially.
I didn’t feel ready for high school, primary school felt safe, so I was pretty sad about leaving. I don’t think I wanted to grow up.

I had the opposite experience with secondary school. I couldn’t wait to leave. Most of my friends stayed on at 6th form, whilst I was the only one who went to art college. I was so excited about doing something I had an actual interest in.

In terms of the last day, we did the usual shirt signing, but school didn’t arrange a leavers prom or disco, which was a bit crap of them.
Our year group arranged a night out instead. We went for pizza and cheap cocktails in town.
Back then, the bouncers weren’t exactly strict about who they let it! (A hoard of 15/16 year olds in our case)

I had only joined the school at the start of that academic year but I really loved it there.

It was late 80's and we sang The Final Countdown by Europe at the top of our voices.

All I can remember is we all sat up on the worktops around the edges of the classroom and sang along to Angels by Robbie Williams.

I don't remember specifics, but I remember the excitement and feeling grown up because we were the oldest and the school leavers. About half went on with me to my secondary school and the other half went to a school next door.

No. Nothing was made of it in those days (1972).

I remember my first day at secondary school though. There had been no transition arrangements and unfortunately I had missed the first two days of term because we were still on holiday that week.

The following Monday I had no idea where to go, so walked nervously to the main school entrance. Luckily I met a boy from my old (very small) primary school near the gate and he told me I was in his class so I just followed him.

My parents were not generally neglectful so why on earth they thought that was acceptable I don't know!

Yes 2002. I remember the teacher telling us the present is a gift quote and then crying as I walked home.
also remember the sign language we learnt for the leavers assembly a few days before.