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Does anyone remember studying "data" in infants?

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cheesychips15 · 16/10/2025 12:11

I'm not sure why I've suddenly remembered this, but I have a memory that in year 1 (in 1995/6) we had a subject called data. As far as I can remember it was things like colouring in bar charts, but I can't remember much more than that. We did have separate maths lessons which I think must have been adding and subtracting.

I can't remember if we did it in year 2 as well, but I don't think we did it in junior school.

Anyone else remember this? Or was anyone teaching KS1 30 years ago and knows what it was?

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ThrowAwayHooray · 16/10/2025 12:43

Yes!! I left primary in 1997 and there was definitely a subject called Data in the lower years. I remember it specifically as after learning what that word meant, I used it to play extreme level hangman with my cousins (where you pick a random word rather than a “thing”) and the clue I gave them was “another word for information”, they didn’t get it and one of my cousins had a massive tantrum because the win made me “Hangman Champion of the World” and she threw one of my Nana’s ornaments into her TV and broke them both! We were banned from playing hangman after that 😂

Gosh OP I haven’t thought about this for probably 25 years; thank you so much for unlocking a memory!!!

I went to school in SW London if that makes a difference (in case it was some sort of club or local initiative).

Edited to add: I also remember bar charts, as well as pie charts and line graphs but that’s about it.

Damnbrsatz · 16/10/2025 15:19

I started teaching ks1 in 1997 and we taught data handling which was just an area of the maths curriculum which covered things like tally charts, bar graphs, pie charts etc.Is this what you are thinking about?

Snorlaxo · 16/10/2025 15:22

I’m more than 10 years older than you and that kind of thing was apart of maths. Your thread title reminded me of a lesson we had called “Nature” where we learned the different types of trees, birds and stuff like that.

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Damnbrsatz · 16/10/2025 15:32

Sorry I meant 1991 not 1997

FurForksSake · 16/10/2025 15:34

Was it something for the Richmond tests? Test I believe only I completed in primary and for no discernible reason…

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cheesychips15 · 17/10/2025 12:15

Damnbrsatz · 16/10/2025 15:19

I started teaching ks1 in 1997 and we taught data handling which was just an area of the maths curriculum which covered things like tally charts, bar graphs, pie charts etc.Is this what you are thinking about?

It certainly could have been, I only have vague memories about it, but we definitely did work in our "data books" rather than our maths books if that makes sense. In terms of curriculum it will have come under maths, as it was charts and stuff but it was a separate lesson I think.

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cheesychips15 · 17/10/2025 12:17

ThrowAwayHooray · 16/10/2025 12:43

Yes!! I left primary in 1997 and there was definitely a subject called Data in the lower years. I remember it specifically as after learning what that word meant, I used it to play extreme level hangman with my cousins (where you pick a random word rather than a “thing”) and the clue I gave them was “another word for information”, they didn’t get it and one of my cousins had a massive tantrum because the win made me “Hangman Champion of the World” and she threw one of my Nana’s ornaments into her TV and broke them both! We were banned from playing hangman after that 😂

Gosh OP I haven’t thought about this for probably 25 years; thank you so much for unlocking a memory!!!

I went to school in SW London if that makes a difference (in case it was some sort of club or local initiative).

Edited to add: I also remember bar charts, as well as pie charts and line graphs but that’s about it.

Edited

😂 glad to have helped unlock that memory! I was in Liverpool so it seems like it was widespread and not just a local initiative.

Glad to see others remember it too and I'm not going mad!

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cheesychips15 · 17/10/2025 12:18

FurForksSake · 16/10/2025 15:34

Was it something for the Richmond tests? Test I believe only I completed in primary and for no discernible reason…

I'd forgotten about those, but remember doing them too! Not sure if I did one on data though, it was too long ago.

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