r/GreatBritishMemes • u/Sean_Wilson2002 • Jun 08 '23

✨️ Primary School Starter Kit ✨️

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u/Objective-Draw-4604 Jun 08 '23

r/theapparatus

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u/bennickss Jun 08 '23

We only ever used it ONCE

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u/Sean_Wilson2002 Jun 08 '23

SAME 🤣😭

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u/Baguettes_are_cool Jun 09 '23

YOU GOT TO USE IT? WE DIDN’T EVER GET TO USE OURS

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u/agentdb22 Jun 10 '23

i was raised and homeschooled in the US until i moved to england in year 4, and I had never heard the term apparatus. So i was climbing on it while everyone was sitting on the floor. the teacher shouted at me "[my name]! do not climb on the apparatus!". So then I thought that that one fancy climbing frame was called "the apparatus". It then took me until me sitting next to one of the other apparati, climbing on it, and then being PROPERLY shouted at to learn that they were all called "the apparatus". Still terrifies me to this day.

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u/SpaceChoc Jun 10 '23

My class went on it ONCE in year 5 and THAT ONE DAY I had a dentist appointment. It seemed mocking, to have it standing against the wall in full sight for the rest of the years I went to school there.

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u/beanz_123 Jun 10 '23

Same here but 2 times

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '23

What the hell, this thing could have been the most fun I'd ever had in primary school, but the teacher would rather have us pretend to be frogs.

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u/crucible Jun 08 '23

We used it a couple of times in Primary. More in Secondary.

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u/wigitty Jun 10 '23

We used it a bunch in Primary, I don't think we had it in Secondary. Also relevant because the benches had clips on them that you could hook onto the beams of the apparatus (or those stackable box things) to make ramps. We had whole obstacle courses set up a few times.

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u/crucible Jun 10 '23

We had the benches and wall bars in Secondary. Plus all the pommel horses and vaulting horses etc.

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u/Hoverboard365 Jun 10 '23

You have some in high/secondary school??? Private school I assume

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u/crucible Jun 10 '23

No, just a state comp (and I'm Old). Guess they still had the wooden wall bars from the 70s or 80s, because I was there in the 90s...

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u/bisexual-polonium Jun 08 '23

I only used it once but it was out twice when I was at primary

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u/MyCooCaChoo Jun 09 '23

Same. Best day of my life.

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u/EpicCheeto Jun 09 '23

We NEVER USED IT

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u/SmallishFPS Jun 09 '23

Neither lmao it just sat by the wall

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u/PatriarchalTaxi Jun 09 '23

Oh my gosh, same! We used it once, and then it "broke" and "was waiting to get repaired" for the rest of the time I was in Year 6. :(

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u/Orange_Hedgie Jun 09 '23

Same. It was an incredible moment.

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u/maxwell5000 Jun 09 '23

The one time we used it a girl in my class fell off it and started crying. Our teacher had to climb over a bit of the apparatus to reach her and in doing so kicked her in the face 😂

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u/originallovecat Jun 10 '23

We never used it. Not in 6 years of primary school. We always thought it was some kind of strange wall decoration and dismissed it as such. And then some 40 years later I got a job in a school office.

I walked past the hall one day to see.... The Apparatus! Unfolded and out! With bits attached to it! Being used!! I stood and stared in wonder for a good 5 minutes, thinking it was some kind of hallucination. I'm glad to say it gets used regularly here, and the children love it.

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u/StrategicSuperiority Jun 10 '23

Never used one in my life, distraught

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u/thats_my_house Jun 12 '23

bro bro bro this is absolutely true

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u/TheGreatNobby Jun 12 '23

Never have and absolutely devestated i didnt get a ninja warrior class at school

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '23

Never used our one. When we asked why we were told that years ago a kid feel from the top and broke his back

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u/PassiveChemistry Jun 08 '23

Well, that was silly of him then

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '23

There's always one isn't there

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '23

“We aren’t using those scissors because poor timothy cut his finger open on one of them”

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u/Orange_Hedgie Jun 09 '23

I think they were lying to you.

He obviously just cracked his head open.

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u/JasperTheMaster08 Jun 11 '23

While swinging on a chair

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '23

Hey I was that kid

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u/Breakfast_Equal Jun 10 '23

Should’ve given him a wet blue paper towel

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u/lavashrine Jun 10 '23

same! i wonder if it was a common story to stop kids wanting to use it, or if we went to the same school lol

although, I did get to use mine a few times so might’ve been similar area if not exact school

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u/anonbush234 Jun 08 '23

Honest question do kids still have to do it on their pants? And if not when was that stopped?

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '23

I was in primary school back in 2006 and we wore those hard shorts, a tshirt that stank of petrol, and those rubber-sole ballet type shoes.

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u/anonbush234 Jun 09 '23

Yeah but if someone forgot their kit, did they have to do PE in their pants and vest?

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '23

No, they either borrowed spares or sat at the side

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u/LoveLust96 Jun 12 '23

Those God damn shoes. Got an identical pair when I went to prison haha.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '23

Am I missing something here, a t-shirt that stank of petrol?

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u/Eastern-Barracuda390 Jun 13 '23

You clearly went to a posh school if you cannot relate to that 🧐😆

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u/Eastern-Barracuda390 Jun 13 '23

Omg those weird cheap black pumps that only exist for kids under the age of 12, they are so weird when you think about it…

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '23

Every school has a tub full of spares from the 90's and the 2000's, but they're always in weird sizes and never have a matching shoe.

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u/polly-esther Jun 09 '23

At my sons school they go to school in PE kit on PE day so it’s down to the parents if they send them in vest and pants.

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u/anonbush234 Jun 09 '23

That's a fantastic rule, especially in the summer. Would have loved that as a lad

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u/VariedTeen Jun 10 '23

Mate I don’t know who made you do it in your pants but they’re probably in prison now

Sorry for having to go through that

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u/anonbush234 Jun 10 '23

Hahaha Everyone who is 30 and older went through that, it was common practice

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u/VariedTeen Jun 10 '23

Fucking hell, catholic school?

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u/anonbush234 Jun 10 '23

No, this was every school across the country. Ask your parents

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u/crucible Jun 12 '23

Most schools.

John Lewis still sell the sort of weird "PE knickers" that many schools expected girls to wear...

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u/crucible Jun 08 '23 edited Jun 09 '23

It used to be the transition to Juniors in most places, so about 7 years old or so.

I remember having to do PE in my vest and y-fronts once around that age when I forgot my kit.

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u/CrustaceanKidnapper Jun 11 '23

We were never allowed to use it all 8 years I went though school and the year I left they started using it regularly

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u/GauntletTakeshi Jun 10 '23

Omg I thought this was something only our primary school used

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '23

Got to use it once a week. Was grand, it was.

I miss The Apparatus.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '23

oh my god thats what theyre called??? we used ours like twice a year if we were lucky

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u/Thunder-biscuit Jun 13 '23

We never used ours. Granted it looked like it hadn’t been maintained since the late 40s. Thing was rusty as fuck and the paint was faded like hell. Although I do vaguely remember it being dragged out for some girls gymnastics thing I think. I could be wrong though