Do you remember tour last day at primary school ?

[Rainbowdeer]

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

No but I am sure there was no fuss, party or anything else of note
it would have been 1989

I remember in our school for our leavers all the girls and one boy went and did ice skating and bowling. The rest of the boys weren’t allowed to come due to poor behaviour. Wouldn’t happen nowadays.

Yeah, if was crap. I had only been there a year, having moved to the area.

My mum was dying of cancer and it was a lovely rumour that it you went near me, you'd catch it from me.

So no one signed my shirt and a few of the teachers laughed at me for it saying I had no friends.

Walked out to my dad's car without even a goodbye from anyone.

So that was fun.

I remember the shirt signing but that's it. We pretty much all went to the same secondary so it wasn't that big a thing really.

I remember it very well despite it being 42 years ago. It's odd as I can't flipping recall the details of a work meeting last Friday!

Anyway we didn't do anything special. Out class teacher warned us that bad behaviour wouldn't be tolerated - he said that he had received info regarding some older ex students (cousins of current students). They were due to come and run riot / be abusive to staff. It was all very strange - it was a small naice village school.

Anyway, some older kids did turn up - there was a half hearted attempt to 'riot' but they didn't manage to get over the school fence. They stood around looking 'hard' whilst smoking. I remember just laughing at them all. Idiots.

I remember getting everyone to sign my PE t-shirt (which I still have) and writing our names/graffiti underneath the slide on the school field 😆 it is still there. Left in the 90s!

Yes because someone smashed an egg on the school bully's head, then his dad called the egg smasher's mum a whore, and my friend reliably informed me a whore is a woman who sells condoms on street corners which I believed for the next few years. Highly memorable.

No. Don't remember leaving primary school at all, and it was in the days before school discos were invented.

The only thing I remember about leaving secondary school was that on the last day, some of the boys took their ties off, put them in a pile on the grass and set fire to them.

We had a school tour on our last day of school more because they struggled to get a date with one of the activities. The school paid for fast food on that trip.

I think the teacher we had that year allowed us to come in the following morning on the promise of a party but roped us all into taking down posters etc as she was moving rooms.

No. I do remember the play we put on for parents, a party and a trip in the last week, but I have no meomories of the last day at all. No recollection of saying goodbye to classmates I wouldn’t see again but presume I must have. Strange really as I have lots of memories from primary.

No, like you I just remember the leaver's disco. I remember my outfit because I'd put such an effort into putting it together. (Matching black and silver belly top and puff skirt with black leggings, pink legwarmers and fake Dr Martin shoes 😂).

No, I was one of very few leaving as they changed transfer age to secondary from 11 to 12 that year so majority stayed on. I remember towards end of that summer term my gm died and I missed the last swimming lesson for the funeral.

No. I remember getting out hymn books singed but nothing else. I remember the visit to my infant school before I started, but have no memory of the first day.

Yes; it was 45 years ago now. The school (private, all girls) had a senior school too and there were only three of us leaving so no fuss was made. I remember queuing for the bus home and feeling delighted that I was escaping the place! A friend of mine had predicted I would change my mind about wanting to leave and that I would cry on my last day, but she had to admit she was very wrong.

Not at all. I don't even remember my last day of secondary school!

I remember singing 'When a knight won his spurs' and 'One more step''
That's it!
It was no big deal really.

Yes I do. People signed each others books or maybe shirts for some. One lad thought it was funny to draw swastikas on everyone's books. and a girl pushed in front of me when we were lining up for something. I got a bit tearful and the teacher put it down to it being the last day when really I was pissed off that she pushed in front of me.

Yes. We had a normal assembly where the headmaster wished us well and the class teacher took our photo. 82

Gosh yes. Embarrassingly i cried over a boy i fancied and thought i would never see again. turns out when you live in the same village you're still friends over 20 years later ha

No, but it was in 1991 when it wasn’t really ‘a thing’

I remember standing at the door waiting for the bell to go at the end of the day, and feeling a bit sad that it was over. Then us all running out as normal to get the school bus.

That was 32 years ago…my DD left this year and she has had a wonderful last 2 weeks in her primary school. So many fun activities, days out, concerts, leavers assembly, disco, shirt signing….we all waited at the gates for them to come out in their last day and there was a guard of honour.

I don’t remember anything like this at all unless I have a terrible memory!

Yes, we went on a coach trip to a forest, played rounders (which I liked) but didn't enjoy the day at all. However, it wasn't the last day of term. I didn't enjoy the trip as I was going down with something and as far as I recall, never went back to school for the rest of the last week. So a non event.

Nope. No memory of it whatsoever.

Edited to add: See? I even posted on this thread before and didn't even remember doing that!

Yes, I remember dancing to the Sailors Hornpipe thinking I'll never do this again. Actually thinking about it that was the last day at infants. I may have actually skipped to it on occasion when it came on the radio though,! Ask Alexa,!

1993 and yes.
I loved primary school, my last teacher was a wonderful man and we used to be encouraged so much by him. He was very caring.

On our last day we performed a show and a did a dance in costume. My friends did some comedy and singing. And we all got to say what we would miss.

We then got to wear non uniform and spent most of the day getting our little books signed (no one did the shirt thing then!) and were allowed to go into classes and get teachers to sign.

Then we had our final goodbye assembly and lots of hugging and crying.

My friend and I were especially upset as we had been friends at that point since our first day at nursery and then had been in every class at the school since day 1. However my mum picked a different secondary school to her one after asking where she was going to pick.
It was bloody cruel, but obviously predictable, because as we were sitting crying, her mum came over and asked why we were crying
"Because we will never see each other again '
Her mum said, course you will
"No we won't, her mum's a cow" (a theme that was quite well practiced due to my mother's behaviour)
Her mum then oks us we would see each other at secondary school. She had twigged what was going on, bluffed my mother and we were, in fact going to secondary together after all.
I'm proud to say we will have been friends for 40 years next year. We live in different parts of the country now but we speak every day.
It's why I will never forget it.