School subjects

Every poster liked English, it seems.

English, lit and lang, was my forte - loved it; maths my nemesis until the scales finally fell from my eyes a few years after I left school! I was good at art and history, enjoyed music (mostly singing), hated domestic science, needlework and games. Struggled somewhat with sciences, and we didn’t do languages. I think I learned more when I left school than I did when I was there.

I didn't have the patience to work at Maths, though my father, an excellent mathematician did his best to get it into my head. I was happiest with my head in a book and loved History, French and Classics. I was so glad to give up cookery and needlework after two years. I'd have happily continued with Physics but Science clashed with my preferred subjects.

All aspects of English--Spelling--Geography---Art---Drama.

I loved English, both literature and language. Also biology. Disliked Maths and Physics. I think I was scared of these subjects as I had been ill and had had 6 months off school. I never caught up. Art was my absolute favourite though and I went on attend art school.

I've noticed that most of the posters on this thread did not like maths, which was always my favourite subject.

I think that is typical of women of our generation.

Even now there are more boys than girls doing A level Maths but the girls are catching up.

There is absolutely no inherent reason that girls cannot do as well as boys in maths, physics, IT and engineering - the so called STEM subjects.

I hope that our grand-daughters will prove that to be true.

Loved English, History and Music (the subjects GD1 is taking at A level), hated Maths and Hockey and mostly enjoyed everything else. Have been grateful in adult life that debating and public speaking were encouraged and I have never been afraid to voice an opinion (sadly, if my family is to be believed!)

Loved English. Hated "Needlework". (But oddly, as an adult, I have always been OK with undertaking sewing tasks, etc.)

I hated indoor PE but loved tennis, hockey, baseball but I was not a fan of cricket. I was at boarding school so we were outdoors 7 days a week playing some game or other.

I loved psychology but it was only taught for a year.

English language, literature, Latin, French and Italian were also on my list. I am better at Latin now than I ever was then. I won the annual prize for French.

Maths, physics and chemistry were foreign languages to me.

I do not know about today but we were only allowed to sit exams if there was a very good chance of a decent grade.

I was the hockey team captain and in the school swimming team ( competitive, me, no ?)
If I could have done those 2 sports all the time I would have been happy. Like some here, I hated it. It was beyond me that some cried when leaving Day came.

I loved PE and Games. Enjoyed English and Sciences but not maths. Loved French, but mainly because of fit teacher (all the girls had a crush on him, he looked like David Essex). ?

It was the same for me WOODMOUSE49 I was inspired by some teachers but not others!For example I had really poor disjointed maths teaching, including one teacher who used to shout at us if we got the answer wrong or ridicule us to the whole class; this gave me a real phobia about maths despite being quite good at chemistry! I managed to pass chemistry and physics O’levels but was let down with a better grade because of the maths! So sad really it’s taken years to over come my mental block around maths!

Loved Maths then and now. Hated French.

So much of what I liked at schools had to do with particular teachers.

Luckygirl

I hated school - so that tainted everything for me.

But I enjoyed music and languages - I did Latin, English, French and German.

PE taught me ingenuity in finding as many excuses as I could to get out of it!! How many periods can one girl have? - how many times can one dog die? - one ankle get sprained?
I so hated it - every miserable second of it; and sadly that put me off the rest of school as I spent my whole time dreading PE days, of which there seemed to be many.

Lucky girl,that’s a shame. Do you think you would have hated school as much if it has been like schools today ?

I liked languages English lit And sometimes history. Hopeless at science and maths.
I was hopeless at domestic science (sorry Food technology!
) and needlework (sorry textiles). Enjoyed hockey hated lacrosse.

I hated school - so that tainted everything for me.

But I enjoyed music and languages - I did Latin, English, French and German.

PE taught me ingenuity in finding as many excuses as I could to get out of it!! How many periods can one girl have? - how many times can one dog die? - one ankle get sprained?
I so hated it - every miserable second of it; and sadly that put me off the rest of school as I spent my whole time dreading PE days, of which there seemed to be many.

I liked English, Art, Social Sciences, Typing and Shorthand.

I hated pretty much everything else.

Loved english and sociology. Hated physics and art.

I loved English and History. All the written subjects were okay but hated PE and art.

Loved English language and literature, and hockey.

Hated maths, physics, needlework.

Loved English literature and Language, together with History. Hated PE (except tennis), Maths and Science. Am really glad that I studied Latin, though I didn’t enjoy it at the time because of the etymological value.

I loved English both Lit and Lang ,History, French, German and Latin I also enjoyed Chemistry and Biology because the teachers were inspirational
I hated and feared maths! And hated PE. I also detested sewing and cookery although I loved (and still do) cooking at home! The cookery teacher was deadly dull and we never made anything interesting only cheese straws and scones!

Loved geography, maths and sciences, loved Latin but changed schools and it was not on the curriculum.

I really really enjoyed sociology when I went to night classes as an adult.

Loved English literature, English language and history. Hated anything mathematical or scientific, in particular, dissecting that frog in Biology.

I loved English Language and Literature

History too. Especially architecture

Latin and German made me cry but I was very good at Spanish.