Lessons you had in school that you’re not sure still happens

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I remember doing cookery, woodworking and something with a solder iron. I can still remember the smell of the solder burning.

I did those in year 7. I also remember having to rush to local supermarket with my parents cos I needed last minute ingredients for my cookery lessons

My dd is in year 8 but she doesn’t do any of these lessons

I'm glad that primary school pupils still work on topics! I enjoyed the afternoons of producing little pictures, stories and reports to paste into my current topic book, which was A4 and made from sugar paper. I also enjoyed painting my hands and arms with PVA glue and peeling it off later.

Do any primary school pupils still have a weekly drama lesson? I enjoyed it back then, but was too self-conscious to enjoy the drama lessons at secondary school much.

Our local primary school still does country dancing, albeit only a minority of girls participate via an after-school club. The group dances at the summer fete. I always admired the bit where after weaving the wooden "swords" together, one girl in each little circle holds them above her head.

I miss the maypole! For some reason, ours was abandoned and left to grow rusty. I would love to have been chosen to dance around it, but never was. I remember in one dance, the coloured ribbons were woven into plaits.

Spelling is taught far more now than it was in my generation. I was never taught to spell - each week I was given a list of words to take home and learn myself. This was then tested on a Friday. Your parents were expected to do the teaching!! Mine didn’t enforce it so I always did badly.

children are expected to spell phonetically initially, which means that by y1 they can attempt any word. Better than my experience, which was joining a long line of children to ask the teacher for a specific spelling when I wanted to use it in my writing (the teacher would write it in a book and you’d copy it in to your writing).

From y2 onwards more complex spelling rules are taught and there are word lists of exception words they’re supposed to know by the end of y6 (things like government, yacht). But most schools do actually teach spelling these days, rather than just expecting parents to do it.

In primary [state school) I remember handwriting lessons, pottery and running the library (mid to late 70s).
At secondary (private girls school in the late 70s to mid 80s) we did the sciences as separate subjects-chemistry, bio, physics.
We also did needlework and cookery as separate subjects.
School also offered Spanish, French, Russian, Greek and Latin (even if you didn't take Latin as a subject you had to learn a bit for Latin Grace at mealtimes).
We didn't have the chance to study typing or shorthand. I once asked one of the teachers why it wasn't offered and she said "You gels will have secretaries".

In primary I did handwriting, maypole dancing, needlework, pottery, country dancing, hymn practice.
My dd still does country dancing, actually.

My daughter did all the things listed in the OP, and more in ‘tech’ lessons. She did do Electronics Products GCSE (not sure that’s still available). This was in a girls’ grammar, they encouraged (though didn’t force) all pupils to do a tech gcse and did a wide range in KS3.
She was quite surprised during her engineering degree how few of her fellow students were competent at soldering.

Ah no. Mine was a grammar in the midlands. I can’t believe we weren’t the only school to make our own gingham aprons!

I did handwriting with a fountain pen.
Spellings were written in a slim spelling book and had to be learnt within a few days.
Many children were carted off for the cane or the slipper or had board brushes thrown at them.
We had to read to the teacher at their desk.

Latin. And I’m only 53!

So I spoke to her. She does DT but it’s things like working with cardboard, sewing, clay and tie dye.

Apparently she does food tech in year 9

Aged 15 we had "Health Education" where a nurse came in and taught us about contraception and how to lose weight. Only the girls. The boys did P.E. instead.

Typing. This was in secondary school in the late 70s. I don't think anyone is taught to type nowadays!

I've seen someone mention making blue gingham aprons for home ec on a Facebook group, so it must have been a thing!

DDs primary school tried to teach them touch-typing (on computers obv) - not sure how successful it was.

Woodworking and soldering = Design Technology, DS did this years 5-9.
Home economics= cookery and sewing - not offered at DS school. We teach him the cook at home and I will make sure he can sew a button back on before he leaves home…

Typing- DS went to touch typing lessons in year 6 and now uses a laptop for most work, he has dysgraphia.

DS is doing Latin GCSE

Primary school I did knitting, sewing and cooking. Secondary school home economics, typing on a typewriter ( hated that) and technology. I'm 44 but not in the UK.

My teens still have a choice of home economics, woodwork, metalwork, applied technology.

First term make the bloody apron including seeing your name in chain stich on the front. Next 2 terms learn to make cake etc.
Bradford Girls’ late 80s

We learnt map reading in geography, enjoyed it, probably not taught now🤔

Yep, we did that , hated it! which fb group pls?

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DD was doing this just before Christmas. Year 9.

We had a lesson called “Office Practice and Typing”. It was compulsory for everyone for a term and a half in Y4(Y9 these days) and “recommended” for girls for CSE (like Easy paper GCSEs).

I didn’t do it.

My teens did all of these in primary school.

I did "Home economics" which was half a year of cooking and half of sewing and learning to use a sewing machine in year 7-9. I don't think they do that any more.

Also, hymn practice

We had to make gingham aprons. They were supposed to be in your house colour, but the school ran out of red, yellow & blue so lots of us had to have green. My apron should've been blue, but I was one of the unlucky ones & got saddled with awful green