Our blog is such an important part of our daily life in B4 so today we've invited our family members along to the classroom to blog with us.
The B4 students are showing their family member around our blog and teaching them how to write a great comment.
So - for families and friends:
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we would love to hear what school was like for you when you were young!
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School has changed a lot since Mrs McKenzie first started school in the mid-1960s.
She didn't ever get computers to use at school!
It wasn't until the mid-1980s that there were even computers in the classrooms she taught in.
Mrs Mckenzie used to write with a fountain pen filled with ink from an inkwell or later, filled with a cartridge. Later she started using a biro.
Classrooms had blackboards but no whiteboards.
Children loved being the monitor who banged the chalk-dusters on the concrete outside to clean them.
Mrs McKenzie remembers taking her lunch to school
nearly every day,
although a few children would go home for lunch.
Once in a while she got to buy her lunch - fish and chips for 10 cents!
If children were naughty, the teacher was allowed to hit them with a leather strap!
How was school different for YOU?
When were you at school - was it in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s,90s or maybe in the 2000s? Was it even earlier?
What do you think schools will be like in 5 more years? Ten more years?
