Remember the days of the old school yard
Through a comment on Friendsreunited, I just found out that my old senior school is closing next Saturday and they are going to celebrate it in style.
From their website:
Kenton’s Last Lesson - Open Day, Auction and Performance
12 July 2008 10:00am -3:00pm’School Days’ are supposed to be the best days of our lives and this is a golden opportunity to rekindle those memories by visiting Kenton School for one last time on Saturday 12th July from 10:00am to 3:00pm before the bulldozers arrive.
Walk the corridors, visit the dining areas and if you take a deep breath you might get a faint smell of rice pudding or perhaps a treacle sponge and custard.
Remember your first day at Kenton and how nervous you were - worried about getting lost and not making any new friends. Your first crush which turned you into a gibbering wreck and that teacher who scared the living daylights out of you. What about your favourite teacher, their classroom? How much have the rooms changed and how much have you changed? Remember your classmates, those whose names you can still recall, where are they now?
(snip)
I’d love to go and Karen seems happy to indulge me, David less so. (He says he has been to my old school already, but that was my old Primary).Wath this space to see if it happens next Sunday…
I’ve posted up Steely Dan doing My old school before so here is Cat Stevens doing Old School Yard.
July 7th, 2008 at 7:27 am
Can be sad to go back.
July 7th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Yes, it could be very sad but I’ll be interested to see if it happens. I find it very emotional even going back to schools where I’ve taught.
July 7th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Well, a school is a community, not a building. It will be full of memories, no doubt, of carefree times gone by, along with a few less pleasant recollections. (Corporal punishment!)
The biggest shock I find on revisiting is not the place but the people you know; The building may be shabbier or smarter but the faces bear the scars of time.
July 8th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
[...] likely that my old school mate “Toota” will be going along to our Senior School’s last lesson this weekend. He describes himself as having long scraggly hair and his mates call him Bill [...]
July 13th, 2008 at 9:00 am
[...] went to the Kenton School last lesson yesterday, along with hundreds of others. It was an upbeat occasion, very professionally organised [...]