In this week’s edition of the Aberdonian, we get a glimpse of what Ashley Road Primary School was like between 1987 and 1994.
The school was opened in 1888 at 45 Ashley Road, Aberdeen, where it is located to this day.
Children could start attending the Infant Department at the age of 5 years old before joining the Senior Department – also known as the Junior Department from the 1920s – at the age of 7.
Ashely Road Primary offered an education for children up to the school leaving age – 13 until 1901 and then 14. Not much has changed in that respect, as today the school takes in students from Nursery to Primary 7.
1988: A year of celebrations
During the years, Ashely Road pupils had their fair share of excitement and visitors.
It was in 1988 that the school saw a visit from the class of 1929.
The former pupils, by then grown-ups, had the chance to be kids again, reunite with classmates and meet the adults of the future.
After all, age is simply a state of mind, isn’t it?
That same year, Ashley Road Primary also saw the celebration of the school’s centenary and children dressed up in period costumes for the occasion.
Little glimpses of the grown-up world
In the years that followed, professionals – from Aberdeen Technical College students to Post Office chairman Sir Bryan Nicholson – visited the school to give pupils glimpses of the adult world they would one day be a part of.
Activities such as school plays, Easter parades and church services continued to break the daily rhythm of classes.
Do you recognise any familiar faces in the photos above?
Did you attend Ashley Road Primary School too?
