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 🙏

1970s baby, so not quite in your time frame, but most things were the same;

Playgroup/Nursery - no, she wanted to keep me off the radar of anybody official.

School in September - no, I had TB (not that she realised it at the time), so I started in January.

Swimming lessons - sort of, had six weeks aged 8 and then there was a water stroke so the pool was closed when we were due to have our next ones.

Have a school residential trip at the end of primary - yes. The school paid for it as otherwise I'd have been the only kid at school from the year group.

Have a school trip to France in secondary school - it was available, I wasn't allowed to go, though.

Have squash and biscuits for break time - no.

Have a little money pot - no, I had free school meals, which meant queuing up in the morning to get my name ticked off as FSM when everybody else was paying (fun on the days where they announced I wasn't entitled anymore as my mother hadn't renewed the application) or in Secondary, had to queue up in the main corridor with the other poor kids to be insulted by everybody else walking past and handed a battered plastic token to hand over in exchange for 60p's worth of whatever was left over from 900 other kids by the time the FSM queue finally got to go into the canteen.

Do SATS tests at school - no.

Born early 80's and the only things on your list we didn't do were SAT's and the money pot.

I never went on the French trip as we couldn't afford it. I did however go on a few residentials (three actually due to low take up so I went in y4, y5 and y6 which weren't actually called y4, y5 and y6 back then)

Did you go to nursery/pre school age 3? No
Did you start reception the September after you turned 4 (like children do now) Yes (summer baby, so only a month past 3!)
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
Have squash and biscuits for break time No
Have a little money pot for your break/lunch money No
Do SATS tests at school I think so, can’t remember for sure

I'm surprised you got 15 hours funded. It was only 12.5 when my DC were small in late 00s!

Did you go to nursery/pre school age 3? NO playgroup in a church hall

Did you start reception the September after you turned 4 (like children do now) YES but many children didn’t in my class

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

Have squash and biscuits for break time NO milk

Have a little money pot for your break/lunch money NO envelope

Do SATS tests at school NO

Well, I presumed that it was 15 hours.

You could basically do either mornings or afternoons.

My ds got 15 hours in 2010. The September after his 3rd birthday.

We lived in a little village in the middle of nowhere so the milkman would bring the milk and once the milk had been poured, each child took turns to walk with him (unsupervised) to the milk van with the empty glass bottles…sometimes he was parked ages away but it felt like a treat 😁