34 memories from the 90s that will make you miss school terribly

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The special effects will be much better next time (Picture: Warner Bros) — Aah school days – we thought they would never end (Picture: Warner Bros)

Hey depressed 20 somethings with a stressful job and the pressure of paying the rent! Remember our school days?
Oh, how life was simpler back then.
Once you have read this list of precious memories, if you aren’t aching to go back in time to the 90s to relive school, then there is something seriously wrong.
1) Walking around the playground chanting ‘Who Wants to Play Stuck In The Mud?’ with new players joining like a conga line. Once you had gained sufficient players, the bell inevitably ringing before the game could commence.
2) Feeling like a class celebrity when you had a new pack of smelly gel pens and your maths sheet smelled of blueberry.
3) The exhilaration in assembly when it was announced that the fields were no longer out of bounds in summer at break time.
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4) The desperate concentration during a tense game of ‘Slaps’
5) Tidy up time being the most active part of the day with the looming threat of having to stay behind for five minutes spurring you into action.
6) The giddy thrill of completing an exercise book and the first page of your new book being achingly neat. It would never last.
7) Three bells for a wet lunchtime meaning that the assembly hall was going to be a scene of anarchy for the next hour.
8) The vicious rumours about injections and the relief at emerging from the medical room alive.
9) Pimping up your typed up homework with WordArt and hilarious clipart so that what you had written drowned in a sea of cartoons and GIANT TITLES.
10) The slow countdown to lunchtime during period three when it was Turkey Dinosaur and Smiley Faces day

11) The sheer voodoo magic of these bad boys which could rub out pen.

12) Practically dislocating your arm from it’s socket when you REALLY knew an answer and making every strained, desperate sound possible short of shouting out the answer.

File photo dated 03/12/03 of pupils during a lesson as with Christmas fast approaching, children named Bradley and Paige will need to be on their best behaviour if they are to avoid Santa's naughty list, a survey claims. PA Wire/Press Association Images — (Picture: PA Wire)

13) The looks of grief exchanged with your playmates when Red Rover was officially banned by school law.
14) The sheer malice and hatred you felt for students in other houses and your rage of injustice when more people from other houses were granted house points than yours.
15) The pressure of including all of your friends’ names in your story for English and inventing pointless filler characters just so no one felt left out.
16) When the TV trolley was brought into the room. It didn’t even matter that it was a science documentary on wood, you got to watch TV, right?
17) Mastering the backwards roll to the wide applause of your awestruck classmates on the ridiculously hard blue gym mats.
18) The swagger you had when you were selected to write something on the chalkboard.
19) Nailing group show and tell presentations by taking turns to read out one word each at a time.
20) The utter terror of forgetting your PE kit and having to borrow a smelly set of school spares.
21) Friday assemblies where instead of singing ‘Jesus Hands Were Kind Hands’ we got to sing classics such as ‘There’s a Hole in your Bucket’.

Switching the acetate on the overhead projector mid song was a skill (Picture: Alamy)

22) The most exciting thing about school trips being the special packed lunch you had brought. Even if you had a packed lunch every day at school.
23) The agony of choice when trying to select the one game or toy for the last day of term to take in. Game Boy or Buckaroo? This often required a strategy meeting with friends beforehand so that all bases were covered.
24) Unleashing the inner animal in ourselves on sports day when asked to climb into a sack and run or balance a plastic egg atop a spoon. The pressure.
25) Reminiscing about the first weeks of term when finding old worksheets during the every-so-often clear out of your desk drawer.
26) The discovery that Look and Read actually aired on TV before you watched it at school and feeling like a complete boss when you held the spoilers for Through The Dragon’s Eye.

27) The puffed out chest of importance when asked to go and collect the register or to take a message to another teacher.
28) Thinking that the Pokemon/Pogs/Tamagotchi crazes would never end and that your impressive collection would mean that you would remain popular for life.
29) The new kid being treated as the chosen one and running home to tell your parents that you had been chosen to look after them on their first day.
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30) The sleepless night of not being sure if the next day was an own clothes day or if it were all just an elaborate ploy to make you look foolish.
31) Art lessons involving joys such as sequins, glitter, PVA glue and poster paint.

32) The pride of standing up in front of the class when you got 10/10 on a spelling test and being able to look down on the failures beneath you.
33) The Megamaths songs. All together now: ‘Two times two is four! Two times three is six!’

34) Knowing that your best friend at school would be your best friend for life. And now you’re trying to recall their name.