CrunchieSquirrel Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 I really loved high school when I was in first year, it was much, much better than the primary school I came from. I loved every subject except for physical education, I was lazy and I loathe it when I do teamwork or run around and I sometimes didn't take my kit because it was boring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbiniho Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 my favourite subject when i was in secondary school was probaly woodwork as it was pretty easy and there was no written tests to do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 My favourite subject was getting the hell out the door at four o'clock..... Formalised education and me did not get along at all, we were in a state of undeclared war for the last five years I was having my arm twisted to go there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAStewart Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 Modern Studies. Its thanks to Gordon Johnson and Stuart Clubb because they were both excellent, inspirational teachers of the subject. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamnSaxon Posted January 19, 2009 Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 I thoroughly enjoyed it when I was at school, except, like doglover, the PE. The teacher was ex-Army (a lot were, in the 60s), short, LOUD and seemed to enjoy bullying us unsporting types. Loved scientific subjects, though (still do). Fond memories of a lad in my class accidentally blowing his bag up in the Chemistry lab ... as the smoke cleared, there was the Chemistry teacher, standing there looking very worried, it was like a successful magic trick. I know (having seen the teacher only about a minute beforehand) that he'd been at the far end of the lab annexe marking books, so he must have moved at a helluva rate. The lad concerned went on to civil engineering, perhaps unsurprisingly for someone who enjoyed blowing things up. Quite enjoyed my time as a school lab technician, too. It meant I got to play with ... sorry, I mean "set up and adjust" ... all sorts of kit, from steam engines to van der Graaff generators, much more than I ever did when learning. Not sure whether school days really are "the best days of your life", but if you get pleasure out of finding things out they should be, 'cos you never get quite the same intensity of stuff to learn when you've left. (I'm counting university as "big school" here.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairislefaerie Posted January 19, 2009 Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 Biology and english, made even greater in 3rd, 4th 5th and 6th year by having fantastic teachers who really went all out to feed my need to learn more. If it were'nt for my biology teacher id never have gone to uni & done my degree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassermaet Posted January 19, 2009 Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 I liked English - particularly short story writing About the only reason I ever turned up - high school has to be one of the worst times of my life Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khitajrah Posted January 19, 2009 Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 Hated school itself, well, my classmates, but I loved biology. I now love being an OU student. I'm properly addicted to learning, methinks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soljey Posted January 19, 2009 Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 I thoroughly enjoyed it when I was at school, except, like doglover, the PE. The teacher was ex-Army (a lot were, in the 60s), short, LOUD and seemed to enjoy bullying us unsporting types. Loved scientific subjects, though (still do). Maybe it was one of the PE teachers I had - about the same time (not in a Shetland school). He was ex-Army too. Made you jump in at the deep end of the school swimming pool, whether or not you could swim!! Also remember almost setting fire to our Chemistry room. Fiddling about with an experiment when a huge jet of flame shot out from the gas taps, through a glass tube, and across the desk and the one in front. My daughter was proud when she went to that school years later and the scorch marks were still there. My favourite subjects were English, History and Geography. Particularly when a new young female teacher came to teach the latter subject. The number for the subject shot up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaydee67 Posted January 19, 2009 Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 I liked biology and English - doing my second ou course now, exploring science. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fifi Posted January 19, 2009 Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 My favourites were art and English. Also languages - did French and a year of German, which I didn't like and dropped and changed to Latin. Funny the effects that teachers and others can have on you. My Head of Art, who I didn't get on that well with, seemed to assume that I'd be going to art college. I got it into my head to leave after 5th year. It was going to be either teacher training or art college that I would try for and I thought at the time that primary teaching was perhaps the most honourable of the two > so I plumped for that. Also, the visiting representative from the local art college addressed the whole year to give a careers talk in rather a depressed manner, telling us morosely that, if it would be difficult to get into art college. If we managed to get through the course and managed to finally get a degree, it would be difficult to get work and how artists couldn't make a living from their work - you would end up being a teacher or in industry. So that inspiring talk probably also affected my choice. I had an argument with the Head of Art, as he was horrified that I was going to leave after 5th year and even more horrified that I was going to go into primary teaching. He had a knack of trying to railroad people which, at 17, can get on yer tits somewhat. "I know better.." and all that jazz.. He talked about how I could stay on and do 6th year studies Art, have another year to mature, etc etc then go to Art College. Mature?!! But I thought I was already very mature. >. Early on, during my first year at teacher training college, I went back to school to pick up some of my work. The Head of Art asked how teacher training college was going. I replied that it was ok, early days, see how it goes, etc. He then launched into how I could get a portfolio ready and he would speak to the head of the art college, I would have missed a term or so but would soon catch up. I was speechless that this man was still trying to railroad me. He never really discussed things with me. He was really annoying me again so I told him I had no intention of leaving teacher training college. He accepted it this time and, as I walked out, he said he hoped I would at least keep up my art. Roll on many years and, although I enjoyed aspects of teaching, I just couldn't envisage doing it for the rest of my life so quit the profession. I some ways, in hindsight > that Head of Art was probably right - but he just didn't handle me, as a headstrong 17 year old, in the right way and I didn't give him a chance. However, teaching brought me to Shetland, I met my husband here, had children, made great friends, etc etc etc so I don't have major regrets. It's funny how, at various times in our lives, we make decisions which are pretty life-changing; we branch off the road at various stages. If I'd gone to art college in Dundee, I may never have ventured to Shetland. Life could have turned out very differently. Not necessarily better, but different. In relation to the subject of the thread, and without wanting to hijack it, did anyone affect your career choice at school, in a good or bad way, and what might you have been doing now, had you gone down another path? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Para Handy Posted January 19, 2009 Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 My favourite subject was getting the hell out the door at four o'clock..... Formalised education and me did not get along at all, we were in a state of undeclared war for the last five years I was having my arm twisted to go there. Could not put it any better myself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlady Posted January 19, 2009 Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 ^^Ditto Hated every minute .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrunchieSquirrel Posted January 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 My favourite subjects were maths, French and German, I like making up calculations and speaking in a foreign language. I found biology very easy and it's was one of my best subjects at school. Physics was so BORING! it made me want to sleep in the classroom whilst the teacher is going 'blah blah blah.....' I love school so much in those days! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeemsie1989 Posted January 22, 2009 Report Share Posted January 22, 2009 PE was favourite for me. Would've happily done PE every minute of every day at school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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