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Branwen Jones

17 things you definitely did in school in Wales during the noughties

For many of us, we have only fond memories of going to school. From making lifelong friends to sporting the latest fashion trends, school was the most exciting thing in our childhood lives (even though it didn't feel like that all the time).

Here we look at the 17 things you did in school in Wales during the noughties.

Read more: 13 total TV legends that shaped Welsh childhoods but look totally bizarre to anyone else in the world

1. Every morning began with shouting "yma" during cofrestru (registry)

(South Wales Echo)

2. Asking your friends the all important question before lunchtime: "Are you having cinio or brechdanau" (school diners or sandwiches)?

(Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

3. Having the time of your life when you were singing: "Aderyn Melyn, i fyny yn y goeden banana... banana!"

4. As well as, "Coch a melyn a fioled a glas"... you know the rest!

(Adrian White)

5. Every assembly would finish with the Lord's Prayer

(Newcastle Chronicle)

6. You'd do your little bit for St David's Day... in style!

7. Eisteddfod was everything (in school and on the national stage)!

(South Wales Echo)

8. During the Eisteddfod or sports days, house names were usually named after mountains, rivers or Welsh mythological characters

(Getty Images for Samsung Galaxy)

9. You were the bee's knees if you made it to the Dawnsio Gwerin group

(Daily Post Wales)

10. Turkey Twizzlers for lunch... before Jamie Oliver banned them!

11. Going to Glan-llyn or Llangrannog

(western mail and echo)

12. School trips to St Fagans

(Peter Bolter)

13. Teaching Welsh to non-Welsh-speaking people during school trips

14. Everyone going crazy for these...

(CT)

And this...

And these...

(Birmingham Post and Mail)

15. And making these on the school playground

(Ciloubidouille (Creative Commons))

16. A disco at your school or a nearby secondary school was your Met Gala

Disco ball (Pixabay)

17. And who could forget this guy?

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