Relive your schooldays at Glasgow’s Scotland Street School Museum, which looks at over a century of education in Scotland.

Built between 1903 and 1906, Scotland Street School was designed by architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and was a functioning school until 1979. The ringing of the original school bell leads visitors through separate entrances for boys and girls, back to their school days. Three reconstructed classrooms reveal what school life was like during the reign of Queen Victoria, during WWII and in the 1950s and 1960s. You can sit at a desk and hear pupils and teachers reminisce about their school days.

In the WWII classroom, children quickly learn that the style of teaching was very different in the 1940s, as the teacher tells them to ‘sit up straight’, ‘eyes forward’ with ‘feet flat on the floor’. Spelling tests on the blackboard and times tables on the wall, evoke memories of standing up in class one by one to give the correct answer to the teacher’s question – and hoping that it’s an easy one.

The museum’s Toy Stories exhibition is on display until May 2nd with a nostalgic look at toys of the 20th century.

Reunion Day, held on the first Saturday of September each year, sees former pupils and teachers – as well as visitors – meet for re-enactments, workshops and the chance to play traditional games in the playground.

Curator’s choice

Caroline Barr, Marketing Manager says: “The washboard in our reconstructed Cookery Room reminds me of helping my mum wash our school socks on the washboard as a child, growing up in the days when many did not have a washing machine. There were six of us, so there used to be 30 pairs of socks on the fireguard every Sunday evening, drying over the coal fire in order to be clean and dry for the next school week.”