Girls who like football or boys who like cooking might not have liked the ’60s!
Attitudes about what girls and boys should like were still very old fashioned and Secondary school lessons were often divided into classes of girls or boys. In some schools, girls would take subjects such as domestic science (Home Economics) and boys would take technical skills/woodwork. Girls were expected to like sewing, cooking and domestic chores and were even taught how to iron clothes – although the irons used in the classroom weren’t electric at that time.
Children in Primary schools would recite morning prayers and learn things like the ‘times table’ by heart; there were no calculators or computers to help work things out. And in a lot of schools in Scotland teachers still wore big black cloaks!
A new school.
Joan talks about leaving school.
