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41 Things No British Person Can Ever Forget From Primary School

Sitting on the benches is basically like sitting on a throne. From the brilliant Primary School Problems.

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Doing a few laps of the classroom during tidy up time to make the teacher think that you were actually doing something

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When the Year 6s were on a school trip and the Year 5s strutted into assembly knowing that they were finally going to get to sit the benches

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Going to someone's birthday party at the bowling alley after school and getting absolutely mortal on mixed Slush Puppies

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Being asked to take a note to another teacher and feeling like you had just been honoured with the task of taking the ring to Mordor

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Wearing your Total 90s to school and feeling like you'd be getting called up to represent England any day soon

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The blue PE mats that were meant to cushion you if you fell were more like concrete slabs of deception

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Accidentally doing the thing that Simon hadn't said in Simon Says and feeling like you'd let your family, your school and your country down

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Holding your palm over someone's head without them realising was a foolproof way of counting how many boyfriends/girlfriends they had

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Spending 99% of any ICT lesson searching through clip art in order to make your word document look absolutely on point

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When the teacher asked you to get into a space in PE and you swung your arms around, hitting as many kids as possible, to show your space

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Practically shitting yourself with excitement when the teacher wheeled this into the classroom

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Spending 90% of a lesson writing the date and title so you didn't actually have to do the work

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Sitting on the back row of the coach, when on a school trip, meant that you had finally made it in life

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When someone got a spontaneous nosebleed in the middle of a lesson and all hell broke loose

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Getting chosen to give out the whiteboards and giving the person that you hated the dirtiest one with a pen that didn't work

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That rumour that the blue side could erase ink when in reality it erased the fucking paper!

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There was always that one kid who'd get fully naked when getting changed for PE

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Sitting on the benches in assembly in Year 6, looking down at all the younger pupils, and thinking 'started from Reception now we're here'

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Covering your hands in PVA glue, waiting for it to dry and peeling it off because you were a reckless rule breaker who couldn't be tamed

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Being sent to 'the wall' at playtime and having to watch all of your friends play whilst you stood and lost all of your dignity

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Having to go out of the school gates to get the ball that went over the fence and returning like a hero coming back from war

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#PrimarySchoolMemories Buying 50 of these bad lads at the school disco and being absolutely off your face all night

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Paper clipping lined paper underneath white paper to neatly write on so your piece of work looked fresh as fuck on the wall

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Having a dentist appointment and leaving school in the middle of the day to the absolute shock and horror of your classmates

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#PrimarySchoolMemories the teacher telling you the story of that one kid who swung too far back on his chair, cracked his head open and died

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The person who the could perform the longest knee slide was guaranteed to pull at the school disco

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#PrimarySchoolMemories These were definitely 100% accurate

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Coming back from a holiday with a hair braid and feeling like your class' version of Beyoncé

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Ending every story that you wrote with 'And then I woke up and realised that it was all just a dream!'

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You could tell that you were getting to the end of term when every lesson involved 'making a poster'

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Miming the songs in assembly instead of actually singing because you lived the thug life and cared for nobody

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Being allowed in the staff room to help your teacher carry something and feeling like you were practically entering Narnia

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Losing your jumper at playtime and smelling ones that were found to see which one smelled like you

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