One of my favourite hobbies as a kid was waggin school, especially on days when we had lessons I didn’t enjoy.

We tried many different ways to fill the long day. Sometimes we’d get on a bus and walk round town. Nobody seemed to question why four 13 year olds weren’t at school, it was just accepted.
Other times we would go to Greno woods with Anne and Jaqueline, build a tarzan swing, and chase squirrels. (Never caught any)
There was a School Bobby, Ted Mattimore, who used to come looking for us, but to be honest I don’t think his heart was in it, as he was always looking the other way when he drove past us.

I remember once even spending the day at Wadsley Bridge Station, doing a bit of trainspotting. Not much came of it though, as there was only about three trains went through. Never tried it again

Do any other Forumites have memories of the wag?

This made me cringe! I once wagged it in Meadowhall and thought I was really clever and had got away with it- until I realised I had lost my purse that had my address details in it. Someone working in Meadowhall called my Mum.

Hmmmm ..... not so clever afterall. :rolleyes:

Yep, once myself and a mate got chatting to some girls from another school and waited for them in their school grounds while they went in for their afternoon mark in the register.
we got caught by a teacher who phoned our school and had to wait for our headmaster to collect us.
earned us 6 of the best that did, but i met the lass again at silver blades a week later and we became an item for two years.

yeah i wagged it loads of times in my first year at senior school!--i even got lost once!---not much fun though when it started to pour with rain when i was miles from nowhere!--did settle down though and ended up in top class in last year!-i didnt really wag it for any particular reason,other than i hated school!--now i find myself telling kids at the school where i work,what a great place it really is!!
what a hypocrit!!(dont know if thats the right spelling!)

We used to wag lessons and go to Rivelin park, but the teachers wised up and chased us all over.

Then we went one better and buggered off to Bakewell on the bus :clap: , we'd go to the chippy there and eat them by the river... Happy days :thumbsup:

I decided to wagg it for the afternoon once. The Head Teacher caught me after about 30 mins....... He was a friend of my parents too :o

I used to wag it from Aston Comp, and go to Treeton Dyke with my mates, until i got run over on my bike on the way home, and the Police brought me home. My Dad grabbed me and gave me a good hiding in front of the two constables, the look on thier faces was a picture. My pops always was a nutter!:suspect:

Originally posted by Dannyj
I used to wag it from Aston Comp, and go to Treeton Dyke with my mates, until i got run over on my bike on the way home, and the Police brought me home. My Dad grabbed me and gave me a good hiding in front of the two constables, the look on thier faces was a picture. My pops always was a nutter!:suspect:


HAH

All Aston kids must do this, we used to hang out in the woods as well or go down to the 'Garth, cos they'd serve anyone (yes even kids in uniform)

Or go to the Wetherby in the Family room for Chips, Pool and a pint. Could even get served with school tie on!

Never wagged school, although used to come up with various health complaints to get out of PE lessons. I think I must have been the only girl in history to have "women's problems" twice a week for five years!

I used to skive collage all the time though, and head to MacDonalds or smoke cheeky spliffs in the woods with a gang of mates! Never did my A Levels any harm - still got pretty good grades!!!

Originally posted by julz
HAH

All Aston kids must do this, we used to hang out in the woods as well or go down to the 'Garth, cos they'd serve anyone (yes even kids in uniform)

I went to Aston comp, although a bit earlier than you and Dannyj, (the swimming pool wasn't built when i left)
I remember our year tutor (longy) having a very distinctive sounding green Volkswagen, that we would listen out for, i still think it's him when i hear one now.

Leave School before Mr Coggins Physics class, down to get a Cob from Dels, into Admiral chippy and fill the scooped out cob with chips and scraps. Then off down to the Dyke (past our house on Fence Hill) or into Pea fields at the back of Miners Welfare. Bliss. Wish i could do it now!:clap: :clap: :clap:

Hi Dannyj - what's stopping you waggin' it now? I've ocassionally wagged it off work when the weathers been good and I didn't want to spend the day cooped up in a stuffy office. I've called friends on the way to work and we've done a detour, met at the station and spent the day in York instead. Sometimes we've invented appointments at the doctors/dentist etc and left work early to meet up and go the the pictures. Now and again it's good for the soul to be a teenager again!

:o You've really shocked me Dervish, still a bloody good idea. Ive just found out im gonna lose my job in next couple weeks, so i might just do that!

Did not need to "Wag" it, just get sent out of class.

In fact, I got sent out of class so many times, that when I went to the school Re-Union, Only the cleaners recognised me!

:rolleyes: I'm supposed to be going to a reunion on the 30th, only problem is i can't remember who i was still friendly with!

I probably was the worst attender at Carfield Cowsheds, what an apology for a school, they wouldn't even give me a school leavers certificate. Most of the teachers were sycophantic creeps who catered to the rich kids and used us council house kids as whipping boys. I recall humiliating remarks like, " You might write like that in Attercliffe but we do it correctly in Holythorpe" or being paraded through the school displaing your excercise book where you had the termerity to make an ink blot.
My daily routine ws to get my morning attendance, then wag it off for the afternoon, the teachers were to stupi or to lazy to mark the register in the afternoons so I didn't get sussed until I was 14 and a half then they expelled me a day before I was due to leave. The Headmaster, Mr Kay seemed a decent enough bloke but was totally inefectual. There was one other teacher who joined the school in early 1952, he didn't have a class and was setting up the science lab/classroom to teach electrics. I was put to be his labourer in wiring up the benches, and sample cicuits, I believe he had just left the Royal Navy having stayed on at the end of the war. I owe that guy in spades, he personally educated me in those short months, he was full of praise for ones work, explained everything and used the maths that we thought had only been devised as a devious method of torture.
Having no School Leavers Certificate I was condemed to the Mines, where I came top in the Training Class at Treeton, was granted a day of per week for further education at Dinnington, went the long way round gaining ONC HNC BSc. In a nutshel I was Top Of the Class at my Junior School, bottom at the Cowsheds, and top or in the upper quartile in every other course. What does that say for those " Educators" at Carfield, except for my final mentor, to whom I owe my eternal gratitude, unfortunately I can't remeber his name, or I would have been saying prayer for him every night.

i wagged it all the time, got really good at it, so good that i got expelled for not going, ah happy days ;)

I wagged it loads also used to get a bucket put in a tin of oxtail soup bit of water and an egg to add that bit of slime and then tell mum I'd been sick and had the evidence in the bucket to prove it

Used to wag school regular!!Tapton early 70s,two or three of us would slope off after dinner,favourate haunts were Forge dam cafe or hangingwater chipoyle!!!got caught more than once and received two strokes on each hand!!then in the 5th year a couple of new generation teachers started at Tapton whos attitude was its your education suffering not mine!!!took the edge off it for me that!!!so my last year was mainly spent in school!!but they were happy days,wouldnt like to be growing up today have to be too careful where you wander!!!!

Wouldnt Dare Do Such Things

I only ever sloped off home in the 6th/7th form when I had "free periods", we were supposed to spend them studying in the library!

I used to wag school with my mates to spend the afternoon in City Road Cemetery where we would take flowers from graves that had lots on and then place them on those that had none.

I realise now, our actions probably caused distress to families of the deceased but at the time we really thought we were helping by looking after the neglected graves.

From the age of 13 until I officially "Left" school at 16, I think I was only there about 50 times. I hated Chaucer so much that I very rarely went and I even bull****ted the school bobby a few times. They didnt really care about the kids in the 70s so we got away with murder and i spent my days either in parks, at western park museum, or wandering around town. I used to spend a lot of time in Redgates too.

We have two teacher friends who swear that their kids never wagged off school, never smoked, never drank under age etc;

Little do they know. :hihi:

EEh, its lovely being on SF at 4.10.p.m. A rare treat for me. Yes I wagged it only once,from Shirecliffe Junior school.Loads of us ran amock on Shirecliffe Hills. We all got the cane when we got back.It was lovely being a girl and getting the cane. We used to show the red weals off on our hands for the rest of the day. :hihi:

EEh, its lovely being on SF at 4.10.p.m. A rare treat for me. Yes I wagged it only once,from Shirecliffe Junior school.Loads of us ran amock on Shirecliffe Hills. We all got the cane when we got back.It was lovely being a girl and getting the cane. We used to show the red weals off on our hands for the rest of the day. :hihi:
It's a good job you got the cane on your hands

It's a good job you got the cane on your hands


Well in this day & age you never know. I believe "spanking" has come back into fashion. :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

Well in this day & age you never know. I believe "spanking" has come back into fashion. :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:
It has? WHERE?!? how much does it cost????

It has? WHERE?!? how much does it cost????
£5 a wack, now bend over Jabbers.!!!!!!!:hihi: :hihi: