THIS week we took a look through our archives to see what primary schools were getting up to in 1980.

The height of cutting edge computer technology is illustrated by a picture of pupils at Hulton High School, who completed assignments on a Commodore CMB machine.

Other new tech was on show when Oaks County Primary School pupils took a closer look at the examined a hovercraft built by Hayward Green high school pupils.

And perhaps inspired by NASA’s ongoing Voyager 1 probe mission, which had just flown past Saturn, pupils at Tonge Moor County Primary School created robots as part of their space project.

There were also plenty of school productions keeping parents, teachers and pupils entertained, including a performance of Oliver by Radcliffe Hall CE Primary School.

Elsewhere, there were some special visitors to schools across the borough, including a local bobby who visited Pikes Lane Infant School to judge their ‘paint a policeman’ contest.

Meanwhile, there was a popular new ‘pupil’ at the Haulgh CP School when headmistress, Kath Smith, took her dog to school.

Send us your memories of school in the 1980s? Email gayle.mcbain@nqnw.co.uk.

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