Has anyone attended a school reunion

I went to one about 15 years ago and now a group of about 8 of us meet up annually for a meal and an afternoon of natter. I love the afternoons of nostalgia and learning about these people all over again. I find it interesting because at school I never felt that I fitted in which is why I never kept in touch and it was a Boarding School where I was terribly unhappy. I was so wrapped up in my depression that a lot went on that I never noticed or understood and in some ways it is illuminating to find out that I wasn't alone in those feelings.

Not for me.
Leave the past where it belongs.

I went to one and cannot say it was enjoyable. There were so many undercurrents. It later came out that those who were in charge of organising it did so as an excuse to have their annual affair! Also unless you looked very healthy, wealthy and young you were out of place. Plus everybody bragging about their work, where their second homes were, what cars they now drove and lifestyles whereas I was just going to show off my children and grandchildren lol

Yes - it was my primary school. It was nice to see how everyone had turned out. My best friend & I went together & being a fiesty woman she saw the teacher who had terrified us all back in the day. A truly awful woman who should never have been allowed near children. I remember her pulling my cousin off the stage & tearing her blouse & bruising her arm badly. I had a strange illness every Friday afternoon - which was when she taught us needlework. Local doctor csaid he saw it all the time in children from our school & the woman was a menace.
My friend went up to this, now old small little woman & gave her such a dressing down. The whole hall went quiet & applauded when she was finished. The ex teacher hurried out.
My friend then burst into
tears & said she had waited all these years to do that.
It was brilliant.

I was contacted last year by 2 old school friends who were arranging a reunion. They were made up with me, as I was still in regular contact with 5 other school friends. One flew over from Spain and we had a fabulous reunion, it was just amazing to see all the girls again and listen to their life stories, even tho some were very sad .... that’s life tho and at least we are all here to tell the tale.

Yes a few years ago. Having moved around quite a bit I didn't have much contact with many people from school but went along as school had been relatively enjoyable. Not for me, found that those who had maintained contact or had remained living locally were just not interested in anything I had done since school and just seem to talk about who had seen whom lately, almost like a coffee morning. Very few males in attendance and they too seemed at a loss. Perhaps it was just too parochial, found it boring and very disappointing.

I hated the grammar school I went to and have no desire to meet up with most of my old classmates. However I'm still best friends with someone I met when we were 11 and we've been close ever since.

I arranged one for my schoolyear about 30 years ago. About 70 people turned up. It was thoroughly enjoyable, ex pupils, ex teachers everyone seemed to have a great time. It was so successful that I arranged another one 5 years later actually at the school. Since then several people have been in constant touch and our old school which no longer exists has a facebook group which is flourishing.

I went to our school reunion forty year on, full of trepidation, but I quite enjoyed it although I didn't recognise half (most?) of the girls (women) there. The slim gorgeous girl had put on weight, the podgy girl is now fit and slim, and some looked much older than their years. How have we got so old?

No I didn't enjoy school, but I found that I could meet the others as an equal, my life has been as varied, if not quite so interesting, as some of them. They had done some really amazing things and it was interesting to hear their stories. Sadly a couple of good friends had died.

My school did a reunion about 25 years ago but I wasn't invited, probably because I had always lived 'out of borough' so didn't socialise with school friends outside of school and lost touch when we all left. I heard about the reunion through Friends Reunited and a few ex pupils got in touch. It was interesting hearing what they had done in their adult lives and how successful some of them had been, but I don't think we had a lot in common anymore. Another reunion was planned if enough people were interested, but I don't think it happened. I'm not sure if I would have gone anyway.

I belong to my school fb group and a couple if years ago I did go to a reunion.
I didn't know a soul, they were all from a later era than me.
I did enjoy looking through the huge albums that the organiser had acquired from a late, much loved teacher and saw lots of stuff from my time.
The people at the reunion were all very pleasant but I felt a bit like a fish out of water so haven't been to any more.

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My old school has changed so much that going back ..I did once..its unrecognisable apart from some of the buildings. I keep in touch with a couple of friends but going back actually terrifies me.. Cant bring myself to go back..I was very unhappy there..but we had a good education..it was a boarding school founded for daughters of impoverished clergy apparently...

I went to my old school reunion - the school itself was about to close, so it was decided that it would give a chance for all students to come back and share their memories and experiences with each other and also some members of staff.
My eldest brother went to the same school, so we went together.
Maybe it wasn't the best time for me as I had just returned to the UK after my marriage breakdown , but I found it the most degrading experience I can ever remember!
Apart from meeting up again with someone that had been my best friend at that school - we lost touch after I left school at 16 and got a job, she stayed on for 6th form. Gladly we have stayed in touch.
It was the very first time that I ever had a conversation with the headmaster! He usually was only visible 3 times a year at the beginning of each term when he gave the same speech of "Life is what you make it" (very true but didn't think it at the time) .
The place even smelt the same (boiled cabbage and chalk) but what I found the hardest was that apart from my friend, no one remembered me! Apart from one chap who's memory of me was that he used t have to look up at me to talk to me (I'm only 5ft 5 and he is now only a couple of inches taller!)
They all remembered my friend, (especially the guys) but I must have been pretty much invisible! I also had one girl ask when my baby was due - brilliant as my son was 18months old and due to comfort eating I hadn't lost my baby weight - she, sylph like then went on to say that her baby was 2 months old!!! Thankfully I hadn't been friends with her back then !
All in all, despite my friend trying to persuade me to go to others, I will never ever attend another one !

I went to School (all girls) in Germany, and travelling is awkward as no direct flights. Went in 2003, 35 years after leaving, my mother was in hospital, so extra reason to go. It was the last time I saw my mother, she passed 3 weeks later. The reunion was very friendly, sadly it also was the last time I saw my best friend, with whom I had stayed in touch.
Another friend, whose Mum would not allow her to wear mini skirts, used to stop at my house on her way to school, to roll her skirt up at the waist. I had lost touch with her but we have stayed in touch since, and she has been to visit me here.

The interesting thing is meeting people with whom you had nothing in common back then and discovering that they were quite pleasant people after all!

In 2002 I helped organise one for the girls of my school, year 34/36 years after we left. I traced 84 of the 85 girls (since found the last one). 54 were able to attend not only from throughout the UK but as far away as Australia, Canada and Spain.

I have never seen or heard so much joy and laughter from women enjoying each others company. Some had done better in life than others but that wasn't really what mattered. It was the tales of "adventures" shared long ago that kept the night buzzing. Many of the girls have stayed in touch and still refer back to that amazing evening.

Keep an open mind and go with no expectations other than to enjoy. You might be surprised by what nice women some of those girls you disliked have become.

Janeainsworth, true, of course they have something in common.

However what they have in common will have been remembered differently except for superficial not deeply felt memories . People grow and evolve and have different emotional associations.

I met up with a couple of school friends a couple of years ago, we used to be best friends outside of school. We kept in touch for a while then life and children took over and it was just a xmas card every year. But about 4 yes ago 1 friend suggested we meet up. Go got on so Well, we meet up about 3 time a year. Not this year yet tho. This year we met on house party.

I would rather eat my own feet
.I'm 70 and if I live to be 100 I hope I never see any of those people again.

I went to an all girls school it was a hotbed for nasty girls even back in the sixties. So I wouldn’t have any interest in going to one.

My old girl's grammar school has had an annual dinner for 50 years and then when we all got older we had an annual lunch. This had now discontinued due to falling numbers and age .Everyone who went to the dinner / lunch enjoyed keeping up with friends and it was an enjoyable experience all round. I miss our annual reunion

I went to one 17 years ago at the organisers home who had got our year together via Friends Reunited. There were about 15 of us (girl’s school) only one of whom I’d kept in touch with. It was weird. Most looked just the same only 35 years older. The shy girl with a speech impediment had become a loud chain smoker; the brain box had become an even more boring architect, the farm girl whose brother was my first boyfriend, had eschewed life on the stage and film for marriage to a multi millionaire. The hostess who had been the ‘naughty’ one was living in blissful suburbia with a headmaster husband; the wealthy one we all envied had fallen on hard times; then there was the one I thought was someone else- no wonder she thought I was odd . And then there was me. Heaven knows what they thought. Despite promises to meet again, we haven’t and I am secretly relieved; we had all gone in different directions and were different people with only 5 years, back in the 60’s, in common.

I attended one when I was 50 too (seems to have been a popular milestone). It was great and I really enjoyed meeting up with others who I hadn't seen for years, although I'd always kept in touch with two or three friends. Mine was an all girls school and I have to say all the women at our reunion were smashing. I even got back in touch with a couple of friends (one who lives in Australia and another in South Africa) and we exchange emails regularly now. All in all it was a very positive experience and I'm only sorry that yours was so miserable Judy54. Chin up, we're not all like that!

I used to browse Friends Reunited (remember that?) and there was a section for Schools. It was a real BraggingFest mainly, but I remember someone writing that they'd "never forget" a poem I'd written. A poem I'd completely forgotten and couldn't' recall
My Best Friend was a girl who lived near me and we made a Blood Pact (pricking our fingers with a pr. of compasses to intermingle) that we'd be each others bridesmaids.
Many years later she found me and I became her bridesmaid