Backing your books with wallpaper Homework diaries Melting and twisting your pens over a Bunsen Burner
gassing the cockroach tank in the Biology lab when I was at Ecclesfield Grammar School... I cannot begin to explain my loathing and disgust of Cockroach's but they had a huge glass tank of them in the Bio Lab ... made my skin itch every time I went in ... so one day I just put a length of the brown rubber tubing from a gas tap on the bench and wasted the creepy bastads
Founders day House competitions Forgetting your PE kit and having to wear rags from the spare kit locker Using towels as whips after the PE showers Smoking behind the bike sheds Assembly Free milk British Bulldogs Football in the playground using a tennis ball The Lords Prayer Making rude words on calculators Detention, lines and (gulp) the cane
Getting drunk at Haggis' s house at lunch and then spending every lunch for the rest of the year after that on detention getting your sideburns pulled by an overzealous teacher with a high pitched voice.
B J McBride sports teacher at B T G S and his "board of education" a rounders bat that he used to rattle down everybody's backside, who'd been naughty.
Mad mental psychopathic teachers with a leather belt who took pleasure in shouting and punishing you for what seemed nothing. http://youtu.be/n5diMImYIIA
One kick. Against a wall with a tennis ball. Oh and the "goff pit", "slaphead" and "fannied thi" All delightful Barnsley isms.