What are your memories of your first day at school?

We asked the people of Sheffield what are your memories of your first day at school.

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00:00 My school was all the way around Stortford Sheffield and my first day was in reception

00:07 players, there was sandpit and water, you know tips and paws and a windy house, it was

00:13 absolutely lovely and then the teacher asked me when it was my birthday and I said 11th

00:20 of September and obviously they put me in reception when I should have been in in front

00:26 of everyone so I was just led away from all these lovely...

00:30 Taken away from all the fun bits.

00:32 Into a proper classroom with tables and chairs and stuff so it was a little bit of a traumatic

00:39 first day.

00:40 Did the rest of school make up for it or were you always thinking about reception?

00:43 It was a lovely lovely lovely school, the staff were lovely, the only thing that we

00:49 were all a little bit scared of a little is there was a dentist underneath so it was quite

00:55 complex, there was a secondary school next door on the main street and underneath the

01:03 school was actually the school head's dentist service so we were all a bit afraid of having

01:10 to go down there.

01:12 Was the dentist nice?

01:13 No.

01:14 Not like they are today.

01:17 Well I was petrified of school because it weren't big old Victorian buildings I just

01:24 think they look like a prison.

01:26 Oh my mum's taking me to prison mate.

01:28 She's dragging you along.

01:30 I did, I really kicked off first day.

01:33 I mean teachers then, there was one teacher I used to be absolutely petrified of when

01:40 I was five, six years old because the people that taught me had been fighting Nazis for

01:47 six years.

01:48 Right.

01:49 So they were dumping literary service and all that and he used to walk in with a cane

01:55 like that, like a swagger stick, he used to have to stand up, he used to take register,

02:00 he used to have to stand up, say 'here' if you just said 'here' he'd say 'what is it?'

02:08 and if you didn't say 'here sir' you were in bad luck, he didn't grab your ears he'd grab

02:14 your sideburns 'here' 'come to front of class' you're not paying attention.

02:19 Looking back you can imagine him being a sergeant major 'left right left right left' you know

02:24 he was like that.

02:25 I mean they don't teach, I mean we also do technical drawing the last couple of years

02:29 and things like that, metal work and metal work.

02:32 Skills, yeah yeah yeah.

02:33 Which school did you say you went to?

02:35 They don't need them nowadays because they've got to learn technology.

02:40 Which school did you say you went to in those first days?

02:42 All the Lane. It was All the Lane Infants School.

02:46 Then we went to Grimestore and then back to All Lane Seniors.

02:54 But that finished up being Eindhouse Lane, Eindhouse School.

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