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To be honest I must have learnt stuff but apart from reading and writing I can not think of anything from school that has helped in my adult life. Since leaving school I have learnt so much just from life school. Has anything from school helped you in life?

eyeballkerry
over a year ago
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Gems

Big

Elephants

Cant

Always

Use

Small

Exits

And cookery, its a really good question but its quite hard to think back and give a positive answer

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eyeballkerry

Cookery was the worse. tomato soup so bad we all had throw it down the sink. We made food during the day and took it home after school, I’m surprised I didn’t kill anyone off. No idea where it was stored between making and taking home.

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Gems

eyeballkerry

I think we had cookery near the end if the day, im not sure but I do have a school book with great recipes in and still use it.

Its a yellow book with a red tomato on and has Lb's and Oz's

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eyeballkerry

Gems You saying that I still have my green book, called All about food, practical home economics by Helen McGrath , also has cut red tomato on the front. I do actually use it for Yorkshire pudding, rice pudding and basic cake recipes. It is stamped with my school in and I don’t think I was suppose to keep it.

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Chelsea0121

Gems I was taught to remember it this way

Becky

Eats

Cakes

And

Uncle

Sells

Eggs

These are great ways to remember how to spell as my spelling is atrocious

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Gems

chelseaturpin that is the first time I have heard of that version, things like this stick well x

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Gems

eyeballkerry this book ? Image

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eyeballkerry

Gems wow, mine is similar, I will try to add a photo

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Gems

eyeballkerry yours maybe the 1st edition then, a green book I just found one on ebay and may have to get it x

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Gems

eyeballkerry that must be the 1st edition, Im watching ine on ebay 🤞 they are great books and simple recipes

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SarahHorsfield

I’m not sure

I think the most important Iv learnt Was

Just because your not academic

Doesn’t mean you can’t achieve your w😊🙌🏻

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Lynibis

An education, which, back in the day, as a female would not have been important.

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eyeballkerry

Very true, my brother was always pushed to do better and I seemed to follow in his shadow

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Nadiaparveen

I would say to swim

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eyeballkerry

I had lessons out of school. The instructor, an older bald man used to hold me under my armpits and I remembered it hurt. Then he left me half way across and my friend had to save me. Great memories!

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Nadiaparveen

eyeballkerry aww bless you

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Pjran

Never be late, the whole class would have to wait for you to arrive before the lesson would start.

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tara73ziva

Home economics had half a day of that lesson and I still have the green book with the half tomato on it called all about food , practical home economics by Helen mcGrath still refer back to it 30years later for basic recipes

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eyeballkerry

Did you see my comment, snap with the book. I was educated in Eltham.

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Johnny

Image

With apologies to teachers.

Perhaps it was just my school😊

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Grannyclock

That girls can do anything that boys can in academic terms. When I was at school girls were still brought up to think they needed a husband to look after them.

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eyeballkerry

So true, the girls had cookery lessons, boys had woodwork and there was no mixing. Same with PE, netball for girls and football for boys.

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Grannyclock

eyeballkerry I went to an all girls school so we didn’t do any woodwork etc. Come to think of it I didn’t do much cooking either. It was a good learning environment without the distraction of boys but I was a bit naive!

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Mick82

How to avoid a clip on the ear 👂

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eyeballkerry

My school had the cane but only for boys. My brother had that at least once and so did Boy George aka George O’Dowd who went to my school.

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didbygraham

So much of what we "learn" at school is more about training the next generation of teachers more than anything else sadly. Taking and passing of exams is more for the benefit of the school which can be seen to be doing its job rather than of real benefit to the pupils and their future careers. All the "maths" I need to know for my job as analyst has been learnt on the job with most of the hard work being done by Excel spreadsheets. I need to understand the numbers not necessarily how to do the maths.

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tumblespots

My Home Economics teach was a brilliant lady and was really good at explaining all aspects of cookery, flour properties etc. I often wonder where she is today.

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eyeballkerry

Wow, you were lucky. Our lessons were called basic cookery and it was basic so I didn’t learn anything.

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tumblespots

eyeballkerry I don't know if it's true everywhere but I think they have removed all the school kitchens so children around here don't get taught any cooking at all now. (A bad move)

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Chaz85

Friendship I'm even friends with two of my school friends now 20 years later

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eyeballkerry

Your very lucky. I moved away from where I lived as a child so lost contact with all but one friend. We were friends for years but she eventually stabbed me in the back, long story involving Amanda Holdens mum.

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SusanEaston327

i was bullied badly at school and not proud to say became someone who bullied a vunerable student if she is reading this im so sorry i was mixed up

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Yahya

Where's Wally.

I've got a massive bug bear with School Curriculam. They teach things that has no relevance in day - day life, for example teaching kids about money, finance, credit card, loans, mortgages, debt etc. These are fundamental skills they need.

I've got no idea how things like Algebra, trigonometry etc is of any use once you leave school.

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eyeballkerry

I agree with you. This country is in so much debt and people just keep putting it on credit and I don’t think they understand you still have to pay. I have never had a credit card and so glad. If I want something I save up for it.

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Yahya

eyeballkerry Having a credit card & using it sensibly actually increases your credit score, which helps later down the line if you apply for bigger things like a Mortgage as you have some history of borrowing

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eyeballkerry

Yahya I own my own home and drive a nice car, through working and saving. I started early and made my up the property ladder.

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Yahya

eyeballkerry Well done mate!

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BORDERJOE

Yahya .... I totally agree regarding the S. C ! I'd add on First Aid and basic personal care and every child should be able to read at a basic level at least before leaving full time education. I'd also add that I suffered the intro of the National Curriculum and its 14 weighty binders.... what a waste of money, resources and time! ... Finally ...it's usually not the teachers .... but those in power, who often left the classroom early .... climbing the career ladder and then setting ridiculous rules and innovations before the previous ideas have been fully implemented. Makes my blood boil! (P.S. just tried the Co-op Finest sourdough bloomer and enjoyed that too.)

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Lalou

Maths, it was the only class i liked and has come in so handy now im older

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sunny101

Maths and all it's categories. It's what we all use daily, from the obvious skills right down to the perfect cosine position for sunbathing.

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Grannyclock

I know some of these posts are tongue in cheek but I think it’s really sad that people say they learned nothing at school. I think most teachers work really hard, sometimes in very difficult circumstances. A lot of the problems seem to be caused by the ‘one size fits all’ approach. Some kids will go on to use algebra but some just need the basics.

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BORDERJOE

Early reading and writing skills, surely ... without them this chat forum would be completely blank and I'm loving reading new authors discovered on LD at the moment! I'm really not going to get into the topic much further but I do feel so strongly about the way frequently teachers are criticised en masse!

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ACR

'Richard of York gave battle in vain'. The only good thing to come from the Battle of Wakefield was rainbows.

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Leannexxx

Didn't learn alot in school but one thing has always stuck with me and that was learning about Anne frank

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lilyflower

Typing, the opportunity to be school librarian and the workings of farm life, seriously the school had a farm attached.

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MelissaLee1

Learning is fun.

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