Dog in the Playground

[Rowls]

Ahhhhhh wasn't it just the best day when a dog somehow got into the school yard and started running around?

"Look Miss! There's a dog in the playground!"

"OK children. Nobody look out of the window. No, children-"

"I know that dog! That's Tom's dog."

"That's not Tom's dog. Tom's dog has got a collar and and white socks so it can't be Tom's dog."

"OK, children! Everybody come away from the window-"

"Look! He's seen us! Let's go outside!"

"No children! Nobody is to go outside-"

"ARRRRGGGGGHHH!"
"YEEAAAAAHHHHHHH"
"LET'S GO OUTSIDE!!!"

People don't let their dogs out on their own anymore. For the best really and there's a lot less poo on the pavements. But children these days won't ever have the fun of a dog appearing in the playground.

What was the best thing that could happen at your school?

[ksrclaret]

The delivery fan full of the ingredients for school dinners would pull up outside the window of my Year 6 class every Monday morning around 11am.

What great fun it was watching the food being decanted and trying to guess the menu for the week ahead.

[Rowls]

I can still remember the stomach churning smell of the kitchen at first school. A putrid mix of bleach and food swill. Yuk.

[randomclaret2]

A dog out on the streets on its own these days is a cause for mass panic

[Bosscat]

Friday lunches and 'Chocolate Concrete' for pudding...

[Dyched]

Rowls, Pstotto has got your login details pal.

[Bosscat]

Rowls, Pstotto has got your login details pal.

[Bin Ont Turf]

Playing a one two with the stone wall so that the big bruiser kid couldn't snap your legs in half.

[EarbyClaret]

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[Wile E Coyote]

dogs in the playground or on the pitch were always entertaining. Not seen one on turf moor for ages.

[Fenwick]

At high school it was the day that the regular icecream van man came back after a fortnights holiday to discover another van had taken his pitch. As you can imagine, the gig was a goldmine. A hour and a half over lunch time must have paid his mortgage. This was an official role by the way. His van was on school premises.

I didn't witness it myself but Mr Whippy and the Italian interloper had a full on, rolling about scrap and Mr Whippy won !

[Wile E Coyote]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmPUcMM8G88

the dog looked fine, despite this thankfully.

[Bfcboyo]

At high school it was the day that the regular icecream van man came back after a fortnights holiday to discover another van had taken his pitch. As you can imagine, the gig was a goldmine. A hour and a half over lunch time must have paid his mortgage. This was an official role by the way. His van was on school premises.

I didn't witness it myself but Mr Whippy and the Italian interloper had a full on, rolling about scrap and Mr Whippy won !

An Italian lost a fight ?

[Greenmile]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DvwA7BK4-6A

[evensteadiereddie]

At high school it was the day that the regular icecream van man came back after a fortnights holiday to discover another van had taken his pitch. As you can imagine, the gig was a goldmine. A hour and a half over lunch time must have paid his mortgage. This was an official role by the way. His van was on school premises.

I didn't witness it myself but Mr Whippy and the Italian interloper had a full on, rolling about scrap and Mr Whippy won !

Was it real blood or raspberry sauce ?

[durhamclaret]

Not a dog in the playground but in the early sixties at primary school I remember the claret and blue van coming to the school kitchen door with "Lords Meat is what you can eat" emblazoned on the side, wonder who's firm that was ?

[Oo_George]

I can remember being in class at my junior school when a shout went up similar to the OP that there was an animal in the school football field and all the kids ran to the window, however it wasn't a dog, but a large brown horse running round! Then, when the excitement couldn't get any better, my DAD appeared in the field trying to catch it! The horse was my sister-in-laws kept at the stable near the school and it had escaped, and my dad had a papershop near the school at the time and was across like a shot to catch it! Fantastic childhood memory!

[bfcjg]

Lightning storms and the kids with leg braces craping it.

[depechedingle]

British Bulldog was the stuff of legend and (rightly, unfortunately) became a victim of Health and Safety.

The Junior School I went to Barden had a huge school yard at the back (not visible from the classrooms, so no loose dog excitement) the whole school would play British Bulldog though and it was brutal.

[Awayfromburnley]

Dog in the school was frankly awesome.

Distinct memories of what appeared to be a dog Dinosaur pounding the corridors and absolute pandemonium breaking out.

It was in reality a big grey deutchhound I think. But was absolutely pricless. The dog was harmless but absolutely bonkers.

[timshorts]

I can't remember good things happening comparable to the above, only things that made life more miserable. "bomb scare" sounded good for a bit, but just meant that we had to huddle together in the most boring bit of the school that didn't have any windows for up to an hour with nothing to do. "the red disc is up" meant that you couldn't play football on the patch of grass.
If something had actually blown up while we were down there, it might have all been worthwhile - but no doubt the ira or whoever would have targeted one of the nearby landmarks, not the school and we would have ended up shivering for days until all the windows got fixed.

[Cirrus_Minor]

We had a cat that used to follow me to school. When I went in I could hear it meowing and other kids used to run to the window to see if they see the cat.

[morpheus2]

An Italian lost a fight ?

Yeah I remember reading about this, the Italian was so distraught that he topped himself

[Siddo]

At high school it was the day that the regular icecream van man came back after a fortnights holiday to discover another van had taken his pitch. As you can imagine, the gig was a goldmine. A hour and a half over lunch time must have paid his mortgage. This was an official role by the way. His van was on school premises.

I didn't witness it myself but Mr Whippy and the Italian interloper had a full on, rolling about scrap and Mr Whippy won !

Why on earth would the regular vendor take a 2 week holiday during term time?

[wilks_bfc]

We actually had a dog get into the school building.
It was running along the corridors barking, but the corridors were that echoy it sound like the hound of the Baskervilles and we had to stay in our seats so never got to see it (in reality it was probably a Jack Russell)

[Polesworth]

Slightly off topic, another disruptive element outside for teachers, is snow. I work in school now and there's nothing more disruptive to lessons than a few flakes of snow falling outside. The same was true when I was at school but the snow brought another terror to our school yard. I went to the Castle Yard Boys School in Knaresborough and we only had yard for playtime. The yard was actually a public thoroughfare just blocked off to cars during the school day. Safeguarding hadn't been thought of yet and a heavy fall of snow didn't close the school.
Anyway, when it snowed we couldn't wait to get outside at playtime and dinner time. The yard sloped so there'd be 20 or so icy 'slides' created and in use. There'd be snowball fights everywhere. We'd be having a brilliant time in the snow and then the screams would go up.
Triggered by the fall of snow, a raiding party would appear from the local secondary modern school. For a 7 year old it was as terrifying as a Viking raid or the Romans marching over the hill. It was like a fox in the hen coop.
The 'moderners' swept through the yard pushing kids over, rubbing their faces in the snow and pelting us with snowballs. All us little kids tried to run away but there was nowhere to run to. The raid seemed to go on for ever but it was probably only a few minutes before a teacher would come out and the raiders would run off. It was a bit of a rite of passage really and deep down we all enjoyed the thrill of the raid. Happy days!
I do remember a poor kid in the school yard having his leg humped by a randy mongrel dog one time, but that's another story.

[ClaretEngineer]

I once remember there being a bit of a wicked wind one lunchtime at junior school. There was a yard that specifically used for football (painted goal on the wall at one end, jumpers the other). There was a plastic bag being whipped about at such speed it was named “Formula One bag.” A great cheer went up when it overtook a crisp packet.

Seems such an inane memory to have

[Wile E Coyote]

re the ice cream wars.

similar thing happened on my estate, think the rivals were Nelsons and Mr Softeee (ironically)
shattered the illusions at a young age, you associate ice cream vans with happiness, then to witness something akin to mike tyson battlewas most unsettling.

[Garnerssoap]

Chrissies v Moorhead snowball fights inspired spielbergs opening scenes of saving private Ryan

[claretburns]

Being allowed on the grass on a hot day at St Stephens and playing crop. Then at Towneley a ball appearing on the yard at dinner or break time and not turning your back on it whilst watching 4/5 teachers running around aimlessly trying to get it.

[Fenwick]

Why on earth would the regular vendor take a 2 week holiday during term time?

Must admit never thought about that. Could just be he wanted to go on holiday when it was cheaper. Didn't make the same mistake again I bet !