I did the same, usually played football with a mate or went fishing :-)I would walk to school, walk past and kept going. Always found something more interesting to do.
They're still out looking for youAbout a mile to infants and juniors, then about a mile in the other direction to the lower school of Senior school and finally about two miles to the upper school of Seniors.
Almost always walked it to the upper school, although I do remember one time in the third year, my friend, who was in the 5th year and I hopped on the bus and luck happened before the conductor had got to us, we jumped off at the fire station before it turned the corner onto Brownley Road. Sometimes in 1975, the 106 still used the open bus at the back. I was frightened to death in case we‘d got caught, I remember it vividly now.
Around 4 miles there and back, mad thing is, the kids from the posh houses near my other half get a lift to the bus stop, it’s about 200 metres, idle, pampered little spods.
1 to 1/5 mile infant juniors and then about 0.5mile to senior school, I remember in the 70s walking through the snow with my mum and she had a pram with my brother in and the snow was above my knees at 6 year old, no snow days or health and safety bollocks then.
I had a five mile trip on the school bus.
I remember my Mum being furious with a teacher who kept me late and I walked back five miles in the pouring rain on dark country roads.
When I was at school we were shown a film about what to do in the event of a nuclear strike. You were advised to get under the dining table and not to look directly at the explosion.Ha ha correct! I can't ever remember any school I went too that closed due to the weather. I'm sure if a nuclear war had broken out the fuckers would still have insisted we went to school.