Were you a school prefect?

My school didn't have prefects. When we were in the Upper Sixth, we were all expected to behave as senior students and help out with events. Everybody was expected to take on some extra responsibility. Sixth Form was seen as a transition to university.

LovesBach poor girl. Hard to believe how some teachers behaved. It was not good being poor at school.

I was made Prefect as i had my Hockey colours, although i refused point blank to have my Prefect band sewn onto my Blazer. It truly was the only way i would have ever been made prefect, i was too much of rebel to have got it any other way. At least my Deputy Rector liked me, spent many a period in his study enjoying one of his Embassy Regal cigs and a cuppa.

nadateturbe it can only be hoped that schools don't behave like that now. What awful, cruel treatment. A girl at my school was criticised, in front of the class, for wearing a 'dirty' blouse. It wasn't - her overworked mother had put the white blouse in with coloured items and it had become off white as a result. She cried - I have never forgotten that nasty unnecessary behaviour from an adult.

I was a prefect in secondary school 1960 aged 13 …..until ….. it was taken off me by the Head. A joke was circulating the school and I got my hands on it, was caught by the teacher then hauled off to the Head’s office. I was ‘interrogated’ by him as to whom I had got the said joke off. At the time I had a cold, was 😢 and started with a nose bleed. Head totally ignored all this but I had to stay there until I admitted to who the culprit was. I did. Her badge and mine … gone. O the shame 😂.

In Australia we did not have prefects at my country high school . We had House Captains (one boy and one girl.) The school had 4 Houses called after local important features. Our job was to encourage younger students and to supervise our house sporting teams. I recall at Liverpool College for Girls we had School prefects who wore a different uniform to the rest of us. . The head girl was much admired. I even remember her name but was unable to trace her many years later.

I was a prefect and also House Captain.
Not very sporty as I only liked hockey and hated netball, tennis and rounders.
Council house kid, Mum worked in a factory, Dad in a workplace canteen.
I was well-behaved, polite and conscientious

All the lower 6th at my grammar school automatically become prefects when entering the upper 6th [our A level 2nd year]
Probably not the best way to encourage everyone in lower years to display 'prefect qualities' to be chosen for right reasons!

Never a prefect, though I was House vice captain, hockey team captain and girls swimming team captain.

Form Captain on a couple of occasions in Grammar school. Posture badges as well!! The gym teachers would watch us as we walked into assembley and each term award posture badges.

I stayed on at my secondary school till the end of 4th year but then had to move to another school to do my highers. Wasn't chosen as a perfect in either school. I totally understood why I wasn't chosen in my second school as I had only been there for a year when the perfects were picked so was not as well known as the majority of others in my year who had been there for at least two years ( most had been there for five years). However it did annoy me a little when I wasn't chosen in my first school. I was the most academic pupil in my year (all the others had moved schools the previous year but I didn't want to) and was very rarely in trouble. Some of the pupils chosen were frequently in trouble and once they were made perfects turned quite power mad! The prefects at my second school were chosen by the staff and classmates and were all academic and well behaved (totally different school to my first school) and they were great. I think I would have made a rubbish prefect as I was far too quiet and shy. I would have enjoyed having access to the prefects room ( was smuggled in once during a free period by a boy prefect I was friends with in my final year A
and we we were scoffed liquers - did have a slightly naughty side to my character!)

Stuck not suck grrrrr

I was a Prefect. I was chosen. I was never in trouble and suck to the rules. I wish I was more of a rebel.

I’m very glad I was never a prefect as I wanted to stay under the radar and do my own thing.

I was a prefect and deputy house captain very academic and loved school

p.s. my lovely mum didn’t tell me it was to give me confidence until years later as she didn’t want to take the shine off the decision for me.
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Yes. In ‘top juniors’ (Y6 in new money) I was made deputy head girl. My mum was told it was to give me more confidence as I was the youngest child in the year, my birthday being in the dog days of August.

Well Dear Reader, it must have worked! My teacher was kind and the Head paternalistic. I’ve always been super confident since although my grades at grammar school were only ever middling at best!
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I left school at 16 and did my Highers at a private college because my parents fell out with my new headmistress.

I thus missed the chance of being a prefect, and was annoyed about that, as I would have enjoyed it, and would probably have been chosen as I was academically brilliant and a good girl.

Pupils in our year at secondary school were split into four 'houses'. My class voted me Vice House Captain for our house. I was stunned! But it felt good that I was that popular!

Mirren - just like me! I was very shy, until I went to teacher training college and had to speak in front of a class!
I remember one of our Head Boys at the Grammar School was David Cross, who became a professional football player. Can’t remember any Head Girls. 🤔

Eirlys, I so wanted to be editor of the school magazine, but didn’t make the cut. I came across an old edition the other day and saw that I’d compiled the (rather good if I say so myself) crossword. My name hadn’t appeared alongside it, so I’d written it in on my copy, along with a rather rude comment about the editor who’d failed to credit me. Take that, Marion!

Was a prefect but didn't want to be one I was always the rebel

I'm not even sure we had Prefects or Head Boy/Girl where I went! There were definitely social divides and the obvious 'swots' and 'cool kids.' Not sure where I fit in really. Bit of a misnomer. I wasn't a swot, but I got good grades, I was definitely more of a rebel (rules were meant to be broken) albeit I wasn't a hellraiser.

I was Head of Dance for our house (the school had 4 houses) and we regularly won everything.

Yes, I was a prefect and recall being disappointed, angry and upset that I wasn't Head Girl. I had expected to be chosen simply because I was the highest academic acheiver in my year .
The honour actually went to a girl from the year above who had had to stay back a year after illness.
I was surprised it was her.
I was equally surprised at the choice of Head Boy. Rather than chosing one of several really bright boys the post was given to a boy who I didn't really know as he had tended to float around the lower sets.
Throughout that year, however, I came to realise what good choices had been made.
Both of the young people chosen were sensible , friendly and mature.
I , on the other hand , although extremely clever, was excruciatingly shy and awkward . I was also immature and no where near ready for such a role.
I grew up in that final year at school and realised that , while it is a lovely gift to be clever , there are many , many more important attributes.

Yes, I was a School Prefect and also Editor of the School Magazine.
I was truly shocked when my best friend (also made a Prefect), once said about me, "You were very naughty at school"! I have no memory of being naughty or of being particularly good : just average.