Roman Road Primary School

We have been looking at how schools have changed. We have looked at the uniforms the children wore, what the lessons were like and the terrible punishments the children received if they were naughty.

This afternoon we went outside and played some playground games from the past. These also included Mrs Inkster, Mrs Cairns and Mrs Dunn's favourite games from when they were little.

In this photograph the girls are enjoying skipping and chanting rhymes at the same time. Mrs Cairns loved to skip and she even gave us a demonstration.

Some of the children enjoyed trying to roll the hoops around the yard. We have plastic hoops but they used to be made of metal or wood.

Mrs Inkster's favourite games was elastic bands or "lacky bands". She showed us how to tie them together and then we played games with them. You had to jump really high.

Mrs Dunn showed us al how to play cats cradle. We found it extremely tricky but with a little help some of us managed to do the first one.

We had a great afternoon and look forward to finding even more interesting facts about schools in the past.