11 reasons you know you went to Primary School in Luton in the 90s

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IF a school trip consisted of archery down at Dell Farm and platform shoes still bring back painful memories, you went to school in Luton in the 1990s.

Here are some more things that may be bring a smile to your face…

1) You started the day belting out a hymn, whether it be Kum Ba Yah, Give Me Oil In My Lamp, or that one that mentioned ‘being cold and naked’ (cue mass giggling). Lyrics were provided via an Overhead Projector.

2) Having to wait for what seemed like months of dry weather before officially being allowed to play on the grass at lunchtime. Boys played football and girls did handstands or made nests from the cut grass after Luton Borough Council had been round.

3) Summer was officially here when the girls wore summer dresses and white socks, and the boys wore shorts, usually bought from Trutex on Neville Road. One hard nut always made it until October before giving up the shorts and returning to trousers.

4) The end of year concert was a big deal. If you were popular you perfected a dance routine to the Spice Girls, platform shoes, Union Jack dresses and tracksuit bottoms with poppers down the side (from Sport and Soccer) If you weren’t, you showed off your skills on the recorder.

5) The best days of the year were the ones at the end of term, where you were allowed to bring in games – Mousetrap, Buckaroo and Operation, which had been bought from Woolworths in The Arndale or Toys R Us in Gipsy Lane, were all faves. One of the popular boys would break all of the rules and bring in Laser Tag, ensuring all hell would break loose.

6) Harvest Festival was a great excuse to get out of the classroom and visit the local church, and for Mum to get rid of some her old tins from Netto. There was always one who bought a carton of ice-cream or some fresh fruit as their contribution.

7) The school disco was a great excuse for the girls to wear body glitter and butterfly hair clips sourced from Claire’s Accessories in The Arndale, and the boys who mostly wore football shirts and nuclear amount of hair gel and Lynx. Killjoy teachers decided that Eminem was banned (too sweary) as was ‘Sex on the beach’ by T-Spoon (slightly inappropriate).

8) Cheese flan, turkey twizzlers, cornflake cake and chocolate toothpaste. The lunch of champions.

9) You learnt to read with the Oxford Reading Tree books, and felt like you knew Biff, Chip, Kipper and Floppy on a personal level (and were slightly jealous that they had so much fun with their magic key). What ever happened to those guys?

10) PE consisted of rounders if you were outside, or getting out the beanbags and mats if you were inside and doing roly-polys. That’s unless it was Sports Day, the most hotly anticipated race being the brutal Mums and Dad’s race – the ultimate proof that ‘my dad is harder than yours’.

11) The Year 6 Trip. This was the BIG one, and mostly consisted of a trip down the road to Dell Farm to try archery or climbing. As the coach pulled away from the school your Mum broke down in tears as it was the first time you had been away without her, but you were too excited to notice.