and step into the real world.... becuase i have......... Left school! :D

Congratulations mate :D You'll soon realise though that they were the easiest days of your life and there will be plenty of times you'll be wishing you could go back and you'll miss the craic with your mates

True story

I leave on Wednesday. Does Uni count as "stepping into the real world" though?

It's wierd because I'm missing people already, and I haven't even left yet!

Uni's just a 4 year piss up, it's great :D

Shame I'm on placement at the moment...

Whats the plans then m8? I wish I could go back, its easy as trout, plus I wish I could re-do those exams. Without blowing my own trumpet I was brainy little trouter, but chucked everything 'cos I was a lazy kunt :D
I still did better than most but chucked it. Dropped out of all my top classes in my second last year as my mates were going home to play footy and I was walking out school with bags of homework, passed those easier ones with flying colours but by the time I got to my last year it was a little to late :lol:

I moaned about school when i was there, said i hated it and it was boring but looking back it was a right laugh and a piece of p!ss. I was a a bit of a rebel at school :lol: always in trouble, always distracting others, never did my homework etc. One of my personal highlights was ripping the christmas baubles off the wall in Geography and lasooing this fella with them, i remember his name was Luke Portsmouth so obviously we called him Pompey and chanted at him every lesson, 'play up pompey' and 'oh when the saints go marching in'. Might seem a bit childish looking back but i still find it funny :D

Fortunately even though i left 5 years ago i'm still close mates with the mates i had at school

Schools orite, boring as trout at times when I was there, Glad I left but at the time I was a bit gutted leaving all me mates behind. Been working this year then I'm starting college in september, cant wait.

My last day tomorrow. Go in for one lesson tomorrow, have an assembly then go home by 10:15 - only in school for an hour, fifteen. Then an all-day piss up :D :D

Back to school on Wednesday for our first exam. Eeek.

I'm with hibs on this one, I'm a brainy fooker but I just can't be arsed with it all at the moment. I know it's for my future and I need to do well in the exams to be able to earn those much-needed pennies.

i miss school soo much best days of my life

I loved school up until 16 I had the same big group of mates from primary school, always playing football etc....

Then A levels started some mates left, the rest were split in different classes, it wasn't as fun.

There's no way I would want to go back to school again. Unless you can go back to a certain year and get paid for it.

Its either in you or its not. It could be 25°c the day before an exam and my mate could happily sit in his house reading about Mussolini and the effects of Fascism for hours on end. For the rest of us our revision consisted of games of Pro Evo at someones house or a few cold beers and a football down the park. :D

They're pointless anyway. I got 3 highers (best thing you can get at schools here) and I couldn't get near any decent job that paid well. Now i'm stacking shelves for £5.52 an hour waiting for college to re-start :lol:

I miss school like mad.

I've only just left 6th form (Last year) and still play football on Sundays with a lot of mates who are still in 6th form at the minute and I am proper jealous of them.

My 6th form was part of my secondary school - so thos extra two years were like school, but with no Uniform and more free periods...

Fantastic times.

i'm in college now but still hang aound with all me mates from school it aint so bad as we're all driving now so its easier to see everyone but still school was awesome

School was a good laugh up to 16, then I stayed on for my A levels and thought they were really boring as I felt like a big fish in a small pond, and the teachers were rubbish at that level, couldn't wait to leave when I was 18. Now I'm in uni in Swansea its similar to school, but fkn difficult. Right now I'm supposed to be doing a critical analysis of a report on drug use :blink: one more year to go after this. Then I'll bcome a real man :P

This is the one thing that will be interesting in some ways. Who will keep in contact? For me, football will help as I'll still see some mates there. Others I'm not too sure about. Social circles changed to a certain extent when Sixth Form started, despite staying at the same school, as people were split between subjects/classes. My rule of thumb at the moment is that people I only see at school I'll probably lose most contact with, but ones that I socialise with outside school I'll have a better chance of still seeing. It also depends where everyone is moving to for Uni (or not as the case may be).

Still, what will be we be. I've been told that I just drift through things like this anyway.

I thought when i left i'd only see the ones i played football on a sunday with but in fact it's the total opposite. I left that team and i only see 1 person now from that team, whereas i'm still mates with the ones i was just mates with at school and 2 of my best mates now were in my year at school yet we hardly spoke to each other for the 5 years we were there!

i miss college even more it was a doss and up til i started work i thought it was hard wish i was still their now

When I say football I mean supporting rather than playing. Obviously we're not just going to "leave" the team unless something really major happens, although we'll all probably go to less games and will watch our local clubs a fair bit. I suppose my equivalent of your playing in a football team is the local Scout group, so the same thing could happen, although I don't intend to be a complete stranger to the group.

But the other bit of your post I can certainly relate to. There are people in Sixth Form that I consider pretty good mates who I never spoke to in the five previous years at school.

I loved school. Was such a great laugh and I didn't have a care in the world back then. University life is so overated in my opinion. The day I walk out of Uni for the last time will be the happiest day of my life bar none.

Ye I found that. Theres only 2 mates I still see reguarly from school, and one of them I didn't know that well in the 5 years, then in sixth form you get to know diffferent people.

Its weird because when I see mates I knew from 3-16 and it seems a bit distant because I dont see them much. But the other mate I've known for about 4 years and hes the sort of mate I'd tell anything.

Its weird how friendship groups change, sometimes it can be just down to subjectes you pick, or supporting a team helps, as it means your both always at the same place for 2 houres a week.

An aprenticeship in Welding.

i could do more than that, all my exams are higher tier papers, i just dont want to be in an office, i like the hands on approach of things, but dont want to do plumbing as in a few years time its not going to be a really well payed job as EVERY one is going into it. Step fathers a Plasterer/Builder and he is killing himself the amount of work he does, he goes to work (self employed) kills himself there, then comes home and does more work! i dont want to go down that line.

I did a bit of welding, it was absolute tenche without wanting to put a downer on you getting out of that was the best thing i ever did as a kid.

Am leaving a week thursday. Am gonna miss it big time. Going 6th form and then hopefully warwick uni!!

That's what I thought. Now I'm doing my final exams though, I wish I'd done some work inthe second year. It catches up with you in the end :(

same here,,,,,,,,,,,

I'm starting to think that about A-level Maths! I've done very little this year and my first exam is next Wednesday.

First GCSE Exam tomorrow.

"Religious Studies" - Forced to do a short-course on it, personally, and I mean no disrespect to anyone, but I do find it a waste - I, and everyone else, have their opinions and thoughts on the subject; if people wanted to learn about it all then they would have taken the full course! :unsure:

Well, Leavers' Day was weird.

The pranks went well, though. We ordered a taxi to the school for the Head of Sixth Form. Ordered a pizza for him as well, which he actually paid for and ate. Rearranged a classroom by putting all the tables around the edge of the room and the chairs in the middle. Cable-tied various doors shut (cupboards, toilet cubicles, hardcourt gates). Clingfilm over the toilet basin. Silly string on the Head of Sixth Form's car, all over the front doors of the school and all over each other. Lucky our teachers have a sense of humour!

do you go to a public school in the 1930s? :huh:

on my last day i got hammered

On my last day, me and LongtonLeeds were the first people out of the school, stuff all that watch the girls crying bollocks, then up in a field at night getting pissed of about two cans with everybody :lol: good times

So did I / we.

We had to go in for one lesson then an assembly that never was - just made us pile out of the doors and wouldn't let us go through school or anything :rolleyes: :(
Then back to a few peoples houses - swimming, drinking, sun bathing. Most were drunk by 12pm then out for the night up the local park and meeting everyone else - I got into a fight for something that happened 6 months ago and showed him!* ;) Haha.

*Please note I do not condone, or wish to promote, fighting in any way.

Nope. A Grammar School in the 2000s.

The clingfilm over the toilet thing was done so perfectly that the clingfilm was completely invisible, until someone went to use it, that is. Made a bit of a mess.

Among the things cable-tied together were my shoes, thanks to all my mates. I had to take all the laces out to get them apart.

The best ideas were never done (too much effort). One was to nick a couple of visitor ID badges from reception and pay some tramps to walk around the school wearing them and see how long it would be until someone noticed. Another idea was for everyone to park in the staff car park and clog it up. Yet another idea (which I'm told is a very old one) was to get two sheep or two cows, paint the numbers 1 and 3 on them, and set them loose in the school. The reasoning behind the numbers is that they'd think there were three of them and would be looking for number 2 for ages. Quite where we were meant to get the sheep/cows from I don't know.

An idea more specific to the school might have been to print off several copies of the front page of The Sun from Thursday June 22nd, 1995 and post them all over the school. The headline concerns the antics of two teachers in the school gym and the subsequent video tape which fell into student hands. One of the teachers in question is still there (and has taught me for the last two years).

The drinking started when everyone left. The pub down the road must have made a fortune.

Sounds like it's moved on a bit from my time dude, all that happened on the day we left was a couple of people got gaffer-taped to the lampposts, buckets of general nasty stuff thrown on them etc. I didn't stick around for it - got my first girlfriend a couple of weeks beforehand (I was a late bloomer, haha) and she only lived in Ashdown Close, so wandered down there.

You know you ain't a kid any more when losing cherry > taping people to stuff B)

Old Pearson still there then? Top bloke.

Never saw eye to eye with Ms Morgan though, seemed like I got chucked in detention by her every damn week.

Get on the railway - fully trained welder can easily earn 1k a week for 3 shifts.


Weekend nights mind

No, he retired before I started (Sept 2001). Morgan has taught me Physics for the last 2 years. A couple of weeks ago she falsely accused my class of stealing and hiding her laptop case, leading to us taking revenge by hiding it at every available opportunity after that.

Although I did have Pearson for one lesson a few weeks ago. He came back as cover while another teacher had a hip replacement. Both of them are very good teachers, IMO.

I left last year and I wish I was still there! Went back to sixth form and it is tench. Wish I could go back a year and go to college.