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Just abit of fun to take our minds away from this crazy world. Name something you learned in school but not used in your adult life.
Cricket. Oh please, never again!
Matthew, Mark, Luke & John - off by heart. Oh please, never again!
Poetry - I've been put off that for life!
German, I learned it for 5 years and the only sentence I can remember is "From here go straight down the road"
Probably spelling for me! I remember my teacher in year 6 giving us huge words to learn. But Iβm normally pretty good at spelling now
Where to start. Writing with pen and ink, not quite a quill! Hockey and Netball, yuk yuk. Playing the Recorder because I couldn't sing (apparently).
lilyflower I loved netball and hockey sport was my thing but did I ever do it after I left nope I done textiles as gcse failed still don't know how to saw a button on
Ann1984 GCSE's long after my time. We didn't really have a choice had to take English Lit & Lang. Math. History. Geography. RE. Science (covers everything). Cookery/needle work. Typing. It was like learning all over again when the kids did GCSE, AS and A's!
Sex education. I was pregnant by the time I was 17 so it was obviously wasted on me
I was an avid tennis player & cross country runner during high school & used to enter school comps for both. Never did either again once I left.
The recorder.
The haka. We had a teacher fresh from New Zealand and he added it to our curriculum. Only now and again I start slapping the thighs when I see the all blacks playing, but other than that, I donβt use it
tumblespots Lol it was weird at the time, as none of us knew where New Zealand was (we were 5 and 6 year old kids), and obviously not a lot of us even has a grasp of English let alone another language. We even had to learn hebrew at one time, just because the teacher fancied it
hspexy Learning the Haka must have been really fun.
Hebrew! I had never even heard of that until well after I left school. Teachers from other cultures can add to teaching though, they can bring all sorts of things we would not know about unless they had entered our lives, so they can make a big impression - hopefully for the good. Let's face it - you remembered it...
tumblespots yes indeed, it was great as we were an array of cultures in my schools, but the problem was the core subjects were never harnessed. It was all good and well learning about the different cultures, but some kids had learning difficulties that were never addressed - and the teachers just threw in subjects that covered these issues. There was a lot of focus on music, sports and drama but not nearly enough on math and grammar. Itβs the main problem of over crowded schools in disadvantaged areas
hspexy I am glad that you seem to have come through it relatively unscathed (I hope), I have never noticed dramatically grammatical mistakes, perhaps like me you went back to college in the evenings to pass the exams that should have been passed at school?
tumblespots Lol thanks! no, I was just really into books as a kid and as I was quite reserved as a kid, I found my salvation in reading and writing, and I had a competitive side so was fixated on being number one in all the subjects, even the extra ones that we werenβt being tested on (so I always slapped my thighs the hardest!). But i canβt say the same for a lot of the others I went to school with. Mind you, a lot of them could've made great athletes, as their abilities to scale walls and run from the authorities were exceptional
I learned that you shouldn't care what anyone else thinks of you, or try to fit in. No-one else's opinion counts as you probably won't ever see them again once you have left school.
How to crochet! I was awful at it and never did it again after we stopped doing it in HE. I've also never used any of the woodwork or metal skills that I learnt in Techy, again I was awful at it!
The recorder - standard instrument to learn and could play everything on it but now i cant remember the basics!
I have an A level in maths. It just proved I can figure out the level of force and trajectory angle required to throw an egg at Boris Johnson from a distance of 218 metres with a wind speed of 6mph from a South Westerly direction.
I did learn how to read and write though which seems to be surprisingly challenging for a lot of people online.
Pythagoras theory - in any right angled triangle the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the square on the other 2 sides! Always had that drummed into my head in maths lol
How to make a little standalone bookshelf in woodwork class. Yes, even as a girl, while the boys had to do cookery, equality was alive and well in the early 60s lol.
I hated school and struggled (not helped by the fact I have a hearing impairment but never admitted I had issues hearing teachers). I thrived on mum taking me to the library every week and once I left and did an Open University degree.
I'd say chemistry was something I definitely haven't used any learning from. I did get a GCSE in typing and everyone is always surprised when I'm looking at them and can type at the same time.
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