If you were born mid 80s, did your school do these things?

[Nostalgic80s]

Did you go to nursery/pre school age 3?

Did you start reception the September after you turned 4 (like children do now)

Have swimming lessons at school

Have a school residential trip at the end of primary.

Have a school trip to France in secondary school

Have squash and biscuits for break time

Have a little money pot for your break/lunch money

Do SATS tests at school

I know it’s a bit random but him or me please 🙏

Did you go to nursery/pre school age 3? - yes
Did you start reception the September after you turned 4 (like children do now) - yes
Have swimming lessons at school - yes, well we were taken as a class to the local pool
Have a school residential trip at the end of primary. - yes
Have a school trip to France in secondary school - no
Have squash and biscuits for break time - no
Have a little money pot for your break/lunch money - no
Do SATS tests at school - yes

Born in 83.

Did you go to nursery/pre school age 3?

Went to 'playgroup', which I remember being distinct from nurseries at the time - according to my DM, nurseries involved more formal learning, which she felt we were too young for!

Did you start reception the September after you turned 4 (like children do now)

Nope, it was the term after we turned 5 - so as a Jan baby, I had to wait until after Easter to do just one term of reception! Worked out that I started school more than a year older than my DD.

Have swimming lessons at school

They did them in year 3, but as I'd already done my 100m badge outside of school, I wasn't allowed to go and had to stay behind at school with one other child in my class 😔

Have a school residential trip at the end of primary.

Yes, but parents didn't allow me to go (were tight with money)

Have a school trip to France in secondary school

Had day trips in year 7 and 8. Were longer exchanges higher up the school, but I didn't go.

Have squash and biscuits for break time

Nope.

Have a little money pot for your break/lunch money

Not sure, but I had packed lunches.

Do SATS tests at school

I think so, but can't really remember.

I was born in 1973 so to.old for this i left primary school in 1985 we didnt sit sats but we sat multiple choice tests in the last term called Richmond tests.

Did you go to nursery/pre school age 3? - I did but I got kicked out for crying (genuinely!!)
Did you start reception the September after you turned 4 (like children do now) - Yes
Have swimming lessons at school - yes
Have a school residential trip at the end of primary. - no
Have a school trip to France in secondary school - yes, but I wasn’t allowed to go
Have squash and biscuits for break time- no little bottles of milk only (or in my case OJ as allergic to milk)
Have a little money pot for your break/lunch money - yes
Do SATS tests at school- no

I was born in 81, my sister in 83. We both went to play school. I started school in year 1. My sister was the year below me and was in the first ever reception class. No squash and biscuits at break time. We used film pots for lunch money. And we did everything else on the list.

I don’t think I did year 6 sats , but can’t remember.

Born 1979.
I think I started nursery aged 4.
Swimming lessons: yes, although I couldn’t swim until I was 24!
Residential trip: yes, in year 5.
Trip to France: yes, French exchange.
Squash and biscuits: yes, they brought this in in my last year at primary. 20p for both, and we could have hot chocolate as well. There was a notice “only one drink and one biscuit, do not ask for more”, which I kept imagining to the tune of “who could ask for more” in the song When I’m sixty-four.
Dinner money pot: oh yes, it was a privilege to collect these from the classrooms, and take them to the secretary’s office.
SATS: I think these were done by stealth, not the big song and dance that goes with them now. I remember we were called to the head teacher’s office one at a time, to read sentences from an enormous black book, the first line of which was “Can a dog run fast?”

Ooh, I don't really remember doing SATs, but yes, I did Richmond tests. Google has further unlocked a memory of the answer sheet with the multiple choice and having to mark the correct box horizontally with a pencil!

Did you go to nursery/pre school age 3?
Yes

Did you start reception the September after you turned 4 (like children do now)
yes, although it was called P1

Have swimming lessons at school
yes, started about P5 I think

Have a school residential trip at the end of primary.
yes, to an outdoor activity place

Have a school trip to France in secondary school
I didn't, my sister did though

Have squash and biscuits for break time
no, we had a tiny glass bottle of milk with a straw

Have a little money pot for your break/lunch money
no, mine was in a small brown envelope

Do SATS tests at school
no, never. I did do the 11+ and in grammar school we did Key Stage 3 exams at some point

I know it’s a bit random but him or me please 🙏

Im sure they were used to asses what sets we would go into in secondary school?

Yes to everything, except I didn't go to pre school/nursery. Juice and biscuits was only in reception class. And our France trip was a ski trip, which I didn't go on as I don't like skiing.

Did you start reception the September after you turned 4 (like children do now) yes
Have swimming lessons at school yes
Have a school residential trip at the end of primary no

Have a school trip to France in secondary school yes
Have squash and biscuits for break time no but I do remember we had small glass bottles of milk in primary, and in secondary we had a tuck shop
Have a little money pot for your break/lunch money yes and yes
Do SATS tests at school no

Did you go to nursery/pre school age 3?
I think I went to playgroup but my mum was a stay at home mum

Did you start reception the September after you turned 4 (like children do now)
Yes

Have swimming lessons at school
Yes at Primary school

Have a school residential trip at the end of primary.
Yes, although I think there was actually one at the end of year 5 and 6.

Have a school trip to France in secondary school
There was the option to do a French exchange

Have squash and biscuits for break time
Can't remember

Have a little money pot for your break/lunch money
I don't remember having any cash as children

Do SATS tests at school
Yes, definitely did SATS in year 9 but Key Stage 1 & 2? at Primary.

Did you go to nursery/pre school age 3?
Yes

Did you start reception the September after you turned 4 (like children do now)
Yes

Have swimming lessons at school
Yes

Have a school residential trip at the end of primary.
Yes

Have a school trip to France in secondary school
If we did, I didn’t go

Have squash and biscuits for break time
Not at primary, we had milk at break time and possibly fruit

Have a little money pot for your break/lunch money
In primary, no, we had a tuck shop in secondary

Do SATS tests at school
Yes

Born 1986.

I was actually 1979.
Went to nursery 5 afternoons aged 3.
Started reception (which was called year 1) the January after I had turned 4 as am summer born (was two intakes).
Had swimming lessons in junior school.
There was a school residential trip at the end of primary but I didn't go as my parents couldn't afford it and there was no support in those days for trips etc if you couldn't afford it you were put in the year below for the duration of the trip.
Yes there was a school trip to France in secondary school.
No squash and biscuits for break time, it was milk, I was forced to drink it even though I don't like it.
Those who had school dinner had a little money pot for lunch money.
No SATS tests at school as they came in a little later.

I was teaching then.
These are the answers for our Infant school.

Did you go to nursery/pre school age 3? Yes, we had a Nursery class. Children either attended 5 mornings or 5 afternoons. However fewer than half the local Primary schools did.

Did you start reception the September after you turned 4 (like children do now) Yes, that is what happened in our LA, but some authorities still did intakes after Christmas.

Have swimming lessons at school We did. We took our "Tops" (would now be called Yr 2) but that was quite unusual. Most did in Junior schools though. But of course, that is much easier in a City than in a rural school or even small town that doesn't have a pool.

Have a school residential trip at the end of primary. We were a separate Infant and Junior school so we obviously didn't. I don't think the Juniors did where our dc went, but I know the school my dc went to did.

Have a school trip to France in secondary school I wasn't teaching secondary but I don't think that is standard, no. I suspect if you live in the SE it would be more practical than many other parts of the Country.

Have squash and biscuits for break time You could order cartons of milk (7p a day but you had to order for the week). Children were given a cup of squash if their families didn't order the milk though there might have been some manipulating of the orders to get some milk into some of the dc . No-one had biscuits though.

Have a little money pot for your break/lunch money Not common where I taught, but I did give my dc old camera roll pots for their money, yes.

Do SATS tests at school SATS were introduced in 1991. There were Science SATS as well as maths and English. Wasted took up hours and hours of time, particularly setting up the science ones.

I started school aged 4.5 in September but my brother who was August born didn't start school til Easter and only did one term in Reception.

I think the year I started school was the beginning of the National Curriculum so they renamed the classes in about 1990 from Class 1, Class 2, Class 3 etc to Reception, Year 1, Year 2.

I'd previously attended playgroup and nursery, 2.5-3 hours per morning.

Can't remember if we had swimming lessons. Definitely had biscuits at break from the tuck shop but I remember milk not squash.

Did a PGL type residential in Year 5 & 6, a week each - and a day trip to France in Year 7.

I believe my year was the first to do Year 2 Sats (maybe around 1991?) and also did them in Year 6 & 9.

Born 79, so slightly early.

Yes nursery age 3
Yes reception after turning 4, wasn't called reception then though
Swimming lessons at school
Residential trip to Tours, France in what would now be called year 6
Trip to Germany at secondary school
Break time was mini bottles of milk, and a garibaldi
Lunch was provided, cash for tuck shop
No SATS tests
Corporal punishment at primary, ruler across knuckles, being made to put a bar of soap in mouth for bad language (pink Lifebouy soap, yuk) and dunces hat. Secondary "the tray" back to the wall, holding one of the "Grapnels" plastic trays (that only came in poo brown then) half full of water out at arms length for 5 minutes - good for arm muscles!!

Oh and being sent out of maths by the teacher to get a load of Izal loo paper to trace graphs!!

Started school mid 80s. Feb baby so started in the Jan (term that I turned 5).

Went to a nursery when mum was at work from age 3.

No swimming lessons ever.

Residential at the end of primary was to France.

Secondary residentials I remember on offer were to Norfolk, Spain and Egypt.

No milk, pot of money or SATS.

Did you go to nursery/pre school age 3? no as my mum was a mature student at night school. My grandparents came to look after me in the evenings. Most of my cohort did though.
Did you start reception the September after you turned 4 (like children do now). Yes
Have swimming lessons at school. Yes
Have a school residential trip at the end of primary. Yes, it was camping.
Have a school trip to France in secondary school. Spain actually
Have squash and biscuits for break time. No
Have a little money pot for your break/lunch money. I had a small brown purse
Do SATS tests at school. Only in year 2. I moved schools in year 5 and new school didn’t do them.

Born early 80s

Did you go to nursery/pre school age 3?
Yes

Did you start reception the September after you turned 4 (like children do now)
No, started the term after I turned 5. I was a summer baby so I missed the reception year and started school in year 1 (or middle infants as it was called then.

Have swimming lessons at school
Yes

Have a school residential trip at the end of primary.
Yes

Have a school trip to France in secondary school
Yes, the French exchange.

Have squash and biscuits for break time
No

Have a little money pot for your break/lunch money
No

Do SATS tests at school
We did in year 9.

Did you go to nursery/pre school age 3?
yep… we used to call it playgroup….
Did you start reception the September after you turned 4 (like children do now)
yep… I thought that was standard in the uk?
Have swimming lessons at school
we didn’t have a swimming pool but we did go to the local swimming pool in year 4 I think to learn…not like my kids old primary school. They had a pool which kept breaking, we raised money to rebuild it, for them 7 years later to get taken over by an academy who then filled it in over the summer holidays, they then sent out letter that following spring term for us to contribute for a coach to take them to a local swimming pool 🤷🏼‍♀️
Have a school residential trip at the end of primary.
we actually went to France, I didn’t go money was a bit tight
Have a school trip to France in secondary school
yep year 7, went on this trip was funnily enough cheaper than when in primary, we also got into beef with another school on the ferry.
Have squash and biscuits for break time
yep, hated when the biscuit was Garibaldis
Have a little money pot for your break/lunch money
had a little red one
Do SATS tests at school
yep year 2 year 6 and year 9, they’ve stopped year 9 ones a few years back.

1.Preschool, yes.

1. The Sept after I turned 4, happened to be when I turned 5. So I started school age 5.
2. Swimming, yes. Not on school site though (local leisure pool).

4.PGL residential trip in Y6.

1. Day trip to France in Secondary, week trik to Germany in Secondary. I remember the teachers got drunk 😂
2. Milk and biscuits for snack time.
3. I used to have packed lunch, don't remember money pot.
4. Yes to SATS in Y6

Born 1979:

Did you go to nursery/pre school age 3?
Yes
Did you start reception the September after you turned 4 (like children do now)
Yes
Have swimming lessons at school
Briefly at a school I was at for 2 terms.

Have a school residential trip at the end of primary.
No
Have a school trip to France in secondary school
No
Have squash and biscuits for break time
No. Bottles of milk
Have a little money pot for your break/lunch money
No
Do SATS tests at school
No

Did you go to nursery/pre school age 3? - yes

Did you start reception the September after you turned 4 (like children do now) - yes

Have swimming lessons at school - no

Have a school residential trip at the end of primary. -there was one but my parents wouldn’t let me go.

Have a school trip to France in secondary school - yes

Have squash and biscuits for break time - yes, in Primary school

Have a little money pot for your break/lunch money -no

Do SATS tests at school - I don’t remember