While it can be hard to grasp at the time when you’re caught in a whirlwind of homework, teenage angst, petty drama, and an irrational hatred for physics lessons, your schooldays truly are some of the very best of your life - a time when you’re constantly hanging out with friends, having fun, and learning the lessons of life together.
With that in mind, we’ve put together a bumper collection of over 60 pics of Preston pupils at school back in the 1980s and 1990s. Take a look...
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41. A Lancashire school which amassed £700 was the only one to take part in a money raising event for the Children's Society. Pupils from St Peter's Primary School, on Meadowfield, Fulwood, Preston, took part in "Across the Diocese" in which people from different areas of the county were sponsored to cross the diocese in different forms of transport. Pictured in the middle is Howard Cunningham-Smith with Christopher Hall, Nicky Bleasdale, Timmy Bowerman and Victoria Tennant, watched by all their classmates
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42. Sammy the Indian Python slid into a Southport school to help pupils learn about pets. Children at Presfield Special School on Preston New Road, Southport, who have moderate learning difficulties, christened the 8ft snake from Southport Aquarium Supplies, Sammy the snake. Sammy and the children are pictured with Dawn Molineux of Southport Aquarium Supplies
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43. There were more than 90 stars to follow as a primary school put on its nativity play. Weeks of rehearsals came to an end when all 92 pupils of wrea Green County Primary, Wrea Green, near Preston, acted out the Nativity to a packed St Nicholas Church
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44. Youngsters at a Lancashire primary school said a sad farewell to their deputy head teacher. Mrs Kathleen Munro (pictured above) has been teaching at Ingol Primary School in Preston since is opened 22 years ago
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