Last day of school.

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

It's my daughters last day of big school today. One exam in the morning and then that's it.
That happened fast.

Feels very sudden. I was of course fretting about the GCSEs and all that, but it hadn't really occurred to me that it was all over after that.
It only properly hit me yesterday that my daughter really is growing up. Feels very weird.


Of course she lost her tie on the way home yesterday.

 

[Pickman's model]

It's my daughters last day of big school today. One exam in the morning and then that's it.
That happened fast.

Feels very sudden. I was of course fretting about the GCSEs and all that, but it hadn't really occurred to me that it was all over after that.
It only properly hit me yesterday that my daughter really is growing up. Feels very weird.


Of course she lost her tie on the way home yesterday.

Burned it perhaps

 

[Elpenor]

Think I still have my tie!

 

[platinumsage]

On my last day I returned home with my white school shirt covered in the signatures of my classmates. My dad was angry - you've ruined your shirt! He didn't seem to undertsand I'd never have worn it again anyway.

 

[CNT36]

I was the only person who came home with no signatures or having not signed a shirt. No one offered and I was too embarrassed to ask.

 

[JimW]

Don't remember any of it, feel like I must have just slunk away. But then changed secondary schools loads and was only at the last place a few months so might just have been me.

 

[Sweet FA]

Lil'FA finished her last A level yesterday.

 

[chilango]

Bunked off on my last day as a final "fuck you" to the whole thing. Met the others down the pub in the afternoon though.

 

[Callie]

I was the only person who came home with no signatures or having not signed a shirt. No one offered and I was too embarrassed to ask.

It was overrated!

 

[CNT36]

Bunked off on my last day as a final "fuck you" to the whole thing. Met the others down the pub in the afternoon though.

Had an interesting evening day of my last exam. Went to the pub near the beach and played pool with a mate. Went for a walk around and bumped into a woman who had "lost her key" so we helped her get in. I forced a window and went through the window then caught sight of four or five hard looking bastards. Opened the door to get out, checked she definitely wanted to go in and apparently they were her friends. My mate had caught site of them through the window and we were off. Quickly.

We walked back to the pub remarking about the weird miston the dunes and the beach that neither of us had seen before. A few more games of pool at about half ten we decided to head off stopping for some reason outside a shop to sit on some big stones or flowerbeds. While we were chatting someone walked by in tears screaming we shouted some well meaning but probably insensitive things at which point they said "I'm going to kill myself over there" my mate went to get help from our nemesis at the holiday park opposite (we used to sneak into the arcades and club and he'd chase us out).

I followed them eventually finding out they were a girl and their name. I tried to talk them back and find out the problem but they were heading for the sea. It wasn't long and we were both in the water her walking further out in the mist and waves. I tried to stay in sight while shouting for help. Eventually after a lot of talking, ridiculous/embarassing attempts to help and twenty minutes or more (I think twenty minutes but doesn't fit with times) she came back in and we walked up the beach. I'd become a little worried we might struggle to find our way back up the cliffs in the mist/dark and she was getting cold as there were only a couple of ways and it could be a bit of a walk else. Then for the first time since reaching the beach I heard voices other than ours and saw a faint torch light. It was my mate and a copper. We managed to find our way back. I can't quite remember who the girl went with, where we dropped her or getting into the police car but remember them dropping us home. By this time our mums were panicking as we were very late as we were supposed to be back by 11 without prior agreement (we were always a bit late but this was about 1am).

Very weird evening and every now and then I think of her and hope she is OK.

 

[Plumdaff]

My last day at school involved Archers and blowbacks which probably dates me pretty accurately. Someone put an inflatable crocodile in the school pond and a girl called Lucy tried to climb onto it very unsuccessfully.

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Miss [62] same. Should be all over in about 45 mins. Doesn’t seem that long ago we were walking her up to her first day at primary. She's got the signed shirt (and a couple of signatures on her chest ) and the photos, but isn't too sentimental about it. She has loved school up until recently, but a change in leadership last summer has ruined it and she's glad to be leaving.

She's got today and tomorrow to go mental, then Mrs [62] and me have agreed it's 'you need to get a summer job' on Sunday.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

Burned it perhaps

One would hope.

 

[rubbershoes]

The boy finished last week.

he's got no interest in getting a summer job and plans to spend all the time in his room doing whatever teenage boys do with a laptop

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Think I still have my tie!

I'd love my old school tie. It was absolutely mental. Bright blue with loads of tiny little M's all over it.

 

[friedaweed]

The boy finished last week.

he's got no interest in getting a summer job and plans to spend all the time in his room doing whatever teenage boys do with a laptop

You'll find the socks eventually.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

It's my daughters last day of big school today. One exam in the morning and then that's it.
That happened fast.

Feels very sudden. I was of course fretting about the GCSEs and all that, but it hadn't really occurred to me that it was all over after that.
It only properly hit me yesterday that my daughter really is growing up. Feels very weird.


Of course she lost her tie on the way home yesterday.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Does kinda feel strange as I do remember you having threads about baby names.

However being eternal chain to god damn teenagers due to my job I do get a yearly reality check when seeing D.O.Bs

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Must say, I'm loving having the bathroom free again!

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

She's off to prom tomorrow. Prom. I don't remember having a prom. How long have proms been a thing in the UK?

 

[newme]

She's off to prom tomorrow. Prom. I don't remember having a prom. How long have proms been a thing in the UK?

At least 5 years based on our 21 year old, surprised me then. Daughter was more surprised when she couldn't because a worldwide pandemic sort of got in the way. We had to buy the dress early, hopefully she can use it for something else at some point.

 

[souljacker]

She's off to prom tomorrow. Prom. I don't remember having a prom. How long have proms been a thing in the UK?

My daughter had hers on Saturday. It was in a big hotel and all the kids got dropped off in big cars. Madness.

 

[planetgeli]

Proms? More than ten years. They have similar things at primary now.

What's the question? Last day at school? I've seen too many from the other side, the idea is not to get covered in something all day.

Last day at university (graduation)? I went but didn't do the ceremony (no parents, what was the point) and spent the whole day doing coke then getting seriously pissed with Derek Pringle's sister - that'll only mean something to cricket fans - until I passed out on the grass next to the ceremony hall.

 

[girasol]

Must say, I'm loving having the bathroom free again!

That was one of my favourite things after my son moved out

 

[MickiQ]

She's off to prom tomorrow. Prom. I don't remember having a prom. How long have proms been a thing in the UK?

Eldest who was 35 last Friday had a prom, her husband who was 40 in February reckons he did not have a prom, they went to the same school albeit several years apart so sometime between 1999 and 2004 around here.

 

[kalmatthew]

I had a year 11 prom in 2005 and they had been around for a fair while then.

 

[Elpenor]

Had a leavers ball in 2000 at age 18. Pretty certain I walked the mile or so to school wearing a hired tuxedo whereupon we got in a coach to a hotel in tunbridge wells.

Seem to recall I made a right tit of myself at the do, and tbh have never been one for these sorts of formal events, a bunch of bollocks if you ask me.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

I remember having a school disco in primary but not as a thing for just the final year. Don't remember having anything for secondary. This would have been late 80s early 90s for primary and mid to late 90s for secondary.

 

[seeformiles]

Left school early 80s - no formal event I can remember. Glad to be shot of the place. Amazed I passed 6 O-Levels (esp. Maths).

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Eldest who was 35 last Friday had a prom, her husband who was 40 in February reckons he did not have a prom, they went to the same school albeit several years apart so sometime between 1999 and 2004 around here.

This post makes me feel . . . Old.