my first day at primary school

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 11 Feb 2006, 18:29

Epykat wrote:
ecm wrote: .......decanted .

ecm.......that's a bad word in these parts.........shame on you! I'm surprised it's not been added to the profanity list

Ha ha ha ha ha ha etc.

My experience of that process was sheer bliss.
RHS was only a few hundred yards away from Abbeyhill school and was lying empty at the time. Our whole school more than rattled around in there. Or so it seemed to me.
Although I was only about 10 at the time, I remember being struck by the amazing architecture, size and scale of the place.
The classrooms were enormous, the hallways (couldn't call them corridors) light and airy. It was so very different to Scabbyhill as it was affectionately known by us pupils back then.

Mate of Marya · Post by **Mate of Marya** » 11 Feb 2006, 18:46

You must know a lot of people I know......

Miss Lobbin was the infant Headmistress and on a Friday we got a Mrs Linklater to allow Miss L to do her "other" duties.
I remember Mrs McAndlish. She taught the other P7 class, not mine. She certainly was scary though!
I wasn't decanted. I have always been against decanting, even at an early age!

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 11 Feb 2006, 20:46

Mate of Marya wrote:You must know a lot of people I know......

I can remember most of the kids from my P7 class but never kept up with any of them as I was one of only two pupils to go on to PHS whilst everyone else went to Drummond or Leith Academy.

I was little miss nae-pals when I started secondary school.

Scorpion · Post by **Scorpion** » 12 Feb 2006, 02:44

Apparently, on my first day at Portobello primary school the teacher told me to take a seat, any seat. I couldn't understand why she didn't want me to have the nice comfy one that belonged to her that I had chosen

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