A look back at the good

OUR FIRST MONDAY NOSTALGIA OF 2019 TAKES A LOOK BACK AT RETURNING TO SCHOOL AFTER THE EXCITEMENT

The Christmas holidays are over for another year.

The decorations have been put away until next Christmas and things are getting back to “normal”.

And that, of course, includes the children returning to school. For some, it will be a happy time, meeting up with school friends again but for others it could possibly be a case of dragging their feet on the first day.

However, it was not a case of dragging our feet when we started looking through the archives for photographs of life at school in the new year.

What a happy collection of Wearside schoolchildren we have here.

From reception class through to pupils receiving career advice from the Royal Navy to concerned sixth formers from St Robert of Newminster School in Washington writing a letter in 1990 to Soviet leader Michail Garbachev asking for his help to end the civil war in Ethiopia.

Referring to the conflict, the pupils were among the first in the country to support the Youth Ending Hunger campaign.

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Budding engineers from St Anne’s RC Primary use the school’s building blocks to construct various devices.

Easington Community School pupils in 2000 with the website they helped develop.

Hard at work again, pupils from Valley Road Primary School in 2004.

Pupils at St Benets before its demolition in January 1991.