Remember bottle tops..We used to throw at the wall and the one closest without hitting the wall would collect the top from the other guys...Early 50s .

More of a game for the boys.

My fav game was behind the shelter shed and you could also sneek a smoke around there until a teacher found out about our hiding place, bugga teacher's, why did we used to have them? they spoilt a lot of fun behind that shelter shed. 

I can JUST remember in primary school having a tennis ball in a stocking (not panty hose) and standing back to a brick wall and flinging the ball from one side to the other and under legs and above head in some sort of sequence........how funny to try and write this.....

Yes GD, I was a bus person too. I don't remember what we did on the primary school bus, but I remember the high school one. Next to the driver was a seat that faced the driver instead of forward. There was room for 3 on this seat. When my sister and her two mates were still at school, they used to sit there, and when they left after Grade 10, I grabbed it. Most kids wanted to sit towards the back, but for this motion sickness kid, the front was better for me. My two mates and I were like the three stooges. Kept the driver entertained.

I remember the tennis in the stocking too. And hopscotch was definitely in the dirt. We didn't have much bitumen around our school.

I also remember doing handstands against the brick wall at the end of the school.

Gosh we played "What's the time Mr Wolf" lol, and Elastics (that is what it was called), skipping, Statues, Handball and a few others that for the life of me I cannot bring to mind at the moment lol. In primary school we lived close enough to walk to school as we lived in an Army village.

Michelle

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Gymnastics, which included Monkey bars, Rings,  Cartwheels etc.

Softball, Tennis, Basketball, and Tunnel Ball.

That's all I can remember at the moment.  Much preferred all that to sitting in the classroom.

Cheers,

Sheba.

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 the game I liked best was watching the girls do cartwheels  

As I said in my first post here, I liked going behind the shelter shed, we used to play Dr's and Nurses, after the third time we got caught the headmaster called my mum to a meeting and I was transferred to a boys school, wasn't that bad there was a girls school next door  (I was about 9 at this time)

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Yes GD, I was a bus person too. I don't remember what we did on the primary school bus, but I remember the high school one. Next to the driver was a seat that faced the driver instead of forward. There was room for 3 on this seat. When my sister and her two mates were still at school, they used to sit there, and when they left after Grade 10, I grabbed it. Most kids wanted to sit towards the back, but for this motion sickness kid, the front was better for me. My two mates and I were like the three stooges. Kept the driver entertained.

I remember the tennis in the stocking too. And hopscotch was definitely in the dirt. We didn't have much bitumen around our school.

I also remember doing handstands against the brick wall at the end of the school.

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 Beth what fantastic memories you recall.my worst memory was School milk.

I actually don't have a very good memory at all ibbo. I often have to ask my sister about stuff from our childhood.

Anyone else play spin the bottle? There was a lot of long grass in our school grounds, so that's where a few of us went to play spin the bottle. How daring we were! I don't recall us ever being caught either!