In your school, whenever there was supposed to be a minutes silence in remeberance was there?

In my school we never have one. We didn't have one on 11/9 or on 7/7. It's like our headteacher doesn't care about remembering people and few rooms have clocks in them so we can't time them ourselves.

we do usually . but last time , my teacher was shouting and the minute started and she was the only noise round the whole school . she felt so the embarrased . and made us do it after the the minute was supposed to be up

minutes silences are crap.

but we once held one for a worm. it was special.

I don't think they work in schools. Good idea but I don't think they work. Too many noisy people cannot control themselves not to talk or snigger.

i think they r gd it teaches us to respect the dead or what ever

i reamber i time we had it for rembrace day and the bell rang and a hole load of year 11 boys ran down the hall way in there pants screming at the top of there voice and evey1 ran to look it was funny at the time

They taught me nothing. I already knew how to be quiet for a minute.

We had them but there was always some people that started talking anyway

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We had them but there was always some people that started talking anyway

This might sound mean but they just have them all the time now...when I was at school late 60's through to late 70's we NEVER had a minutes silence for anything...

when i was at secondary school, my headteacher was very big on having minutes silences. we had one for everything

I really can't remember but I'm sure we must have.

I do think schools should try to have them just to try and install some kind of thought and compassion to some of the kids who do care about world happenings and news around them.

We held a minutes silence a few day after 9/11 happened, a girl in my class just burst into tears and left the room.

I don't do minutes silences anymore because there is no meaning behind them.

we had a minutes silence after the hilsberaher i rember that cos my mate fainted in the middle of it and all you heard was a big bang

hilsberaher !?

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hilsberaher !?

sorry spelt it wrong hillsborougher

When minutes silences were only granted to the fallen in the world wars then there was a meaning to them, and there was a general sense that we were remembering something very important… but in our current culture where everything is sensationalised we seem to have minutes silences for everything… if the PM’s dog died they’d try to make us stand still and grieve for a while; it is such acts that devalue what should be an important occasion to remember who we are and who we have to thank for it.

We had minutes silences and in primary, they worked, all but the odd cough/sniffle
In secondary, they didn't work as good, I seem to remember teachers finishing them early, as if there was no point, to get on with their lesson And i'm sure the cleaners didn't stop cleaning with their massave, noisy cleaning-majiga's () anyway.