Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Protection built in.

Meet the Other Phone.
Protection built in.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

To go on a trip round your old school?

56 replies

girlfriend44 · 15/05/2023 12:33

Some people on a old school memories group I am on have decided they want to tour round the old school lol. They are going to ask the school if they can turn up to look round for old times sake?

What is this obsession with the past, and are teachers realistically going to want a group of strangers walking around?

One person on the group is obsessed with asking questions all the time, do you remember this and that etc nearly everyday. The same things also get repeated.

Also asking if women can post their names they were at school. because nobodys knows who the women are, as a lot of women change their name.

Now They have come up with a plan to tour the school lol. 😀
Would you be interested in all this?

Everyone grew up, we all went to school somewhere, who wants to keep remembering school days.

OP posts:
MasterBeth · 15/05/2023 12:34

Yes, you being unreasonable to go on a tour round my old school.

papaandmama · 15/05/2023 12:34

Yes I would! I loved both my schools and they were happy places for me. I’d like to indulge in a bit of nostalgia if someone else wanted to organise it…

MrsDoylesDoily · 15/05/2023 12:37

Old school tours are a thing in many schools.

They're a good fundraiser too as the people being toured are expected to donate.

Original poster
girlfriend44 · 15/05/2023 12:37

MrsDoylesDoily · 15/05/2023 12:37

Old school tours are a thing in many schools.

They're a good fundraiser too as the people being toured are expected to donate.

I wonder if they know that they are expected to donate, i didnt know that?

OP posts:
MrsDoylesDoily · 15/05/2023 12:38

Everyone grew up, we all went to school somewhere, who wants to keep remembering school days.

Why exactly did you join an old school memories group then?

MrsDoylesDoily · 15/05/2023 12:38

girlfriend44 · 15/05/2023 12:37

I wonder if they know that they are expected to donate, i didnt know that?

Show quote history

Yes, it's mentioned at the time of booking.

Bigpinktrain · 15/05/2023 12:40

I deleted my Facebook profile because someone kept adding me to class of 1999 group. I don’t want to go, I don’t really remember and if I do remember you it’s probably because you were horrid.

dottypotter · 15/05/2023 12:40

I wouldnt go. I have moved on. People from school are not friends, they are just people you grew up with, and were put in the same year group because they shared the same birth year.
Nothing to do with me now.

tallsmallmum · 15/05/2023 12:41

I would've loved to visit my infant's school as I have only good memories of my time there, but it's gone wasn't even that old as is the lovely area that was around it. I grieved very hard when discovered that 💔
my other schools I saw last month (from outside) and don't care 🤷🏽‍♀️
it was nice however to bump into an old school mate

TheKobayashiMaru · 15/05/2023 12:41

For some people, school was a happy time and they want to remember those feelings again. I was miserable so didn't go when I had a chance. My secondary school doesn't exist now.

NewLeafAgain · 15/05/2023 12:46

My kids go to my old school. I'm not that old but most of the teachers and admin are different. I've been able to see inside at parent teacher interviews and when the school have fairs a lot is open to walk around (classrooms are locked but halls are free access). But I'm not sure if my kids didn't go there if I'd have been fussed to visit though. I'm not sentimental.

SirenSays · 15/05/2023 12:46

No i wouldnt go back. I might give it a little eye roll on normal social media but thats literally what that group is for.

MrsDoylesDoily · 15/05/2023 12:48

Bigpinktrain · 15/05/2023 12:40

I deleted my Facebook profile because someone kept adding me to class of 1999 group. I don’t want to go, I don’t really remember and if I do remember you it’s probably because you were horrid.

When you leave a group, you can just tick 'Do not invite me to this group again', and they won't be able to.

MrsJBaptiste · 15/05/2023 12:49

I'd love to have a wander around my old infants, junior and (especially) high school. I have so many memories of high school and the laughs we had, I know the school friends I keep in touch with would love it too.

ShakeYourFeathers · 15/05/2023 12:51

I went on a tour of my old school recently. It was for work

It was rather strange. The receptionist remembered me and we had a catch up. Some things had changed somethings really hadn't. There was artwork which I had helped create still on the wall

If you have the opportunity op do it

Marsyas · 15/05/2023 12:51

I’m late 40s and have been to two school reunions, one at school and one in a bar. I enjoyed them both, it’s nice to see people again. I have fond memories of all parts of my life so am happy to remember them whether through looking at photos, videos, visiting places or just reminiscing.

MrsMoastyToasty · 15/05/2023 12:57

My primary school no longer exists and is now housing (thanks to Kevin McCloud) .
My secondary school has an active alumnae Facebook page, an old girls society, newsletter and regular reunions (usually 10, 20 , 30 years etc after your particular year group finished school). We also get invited to founder's day and Christmas carol service.

Thelastofbus · 15/05/2023 12:59

Some people love nostalgia, some people hate it. I’m in the hate it camp. It makes me uncomfortable. There was a school reunion at my old school last year. My old school friends tried to drag me along, but I couldn’t imagine anything worse than making small talk with people I’d not seen for 20 years. Cringe. But I’m the kind of person who is very easily embarrassed, and not at all socially gifted, so these sort of events are not for me. I accept that plenty of people enjoy this stuff though, and I wish that I was better at all that small talk, social chit-chat stuff, I think it would make life easier.

eddiemairswife · 15/05/2023 13:02

I have been a few times while my parents were alive and still in the vicinity. Sadly, my school is being closed in the summer due to falling rolls. It was founded in1699, and was a girls' grammar school when I attended.

Plumbear2 · 15/05/2023 13:12

I would love to but all my old schools and college are now demolished.

AppleandSpice · 15/05/2023 13:13

My old secondary school is no longer there, it was demolished and housing built in its place.

I inadvertently got a mini tour of my infant/junior several years ago as ds had to attend a netball match for his school at my old schools site. We had been to the dentist so had to take him straight there rather than going on school mini bus.
The once separate schools had been joined together so I got confused which way to go to the playground The teacher walked us through to the palyground and gave me a mini tour on the way back out when I told her it was my old school.
Nice to see for old times sake, but not sure I would go on an arranged ‘tour’

GalileoHumpkins · 15/05/2023 13:16

I used to work at my old infant and junior school, I hated it as a pupil but all the teachers had retired or moved on so it was ok as a work place. My old secondary school burned down but I wouldn't have any interest in visiting it if it hadn't.

Original poster
girlfriend44 · 15/05/2023 13:18

I would imagine lots of people dont even live near their old school i dont, or people who have travelled round and been to multiple schools.

OP posts:
UndercoverCop · 15/05/2023 13:20

Some people peak at secondary school, that's why they insist on harking on about it.
Everyone will reminisce occasionally, but daily on a FB group seems a bit much.
DH and I actually went to school together (got together much later) and it rarely comes up.

TabithaTitanium · 15/05/2023 13:29

I’d love to look around my old primary school and remember the happy/carefree days. Secondary? Nah.