Take a look at these old photos selected from the Evening News archives and you’ll see there was plenty more going on.
Sports days, football trophies, concerts and even opera helped to provide a bit of variety to 1950s and 60s school life.
The black and white pictures here include a boys' mouth organ band, a golf demonstration and several school football teams.
Scroll through and capture the atmosphere of city schools several decades ago.
13. Golf demonstration
Golfer Eric Brown gives a lesson to some schoolboys at Boroughmuir Secondary school in October 1968. | TSPL Photo: TSPL
14. Silverknowes primary concert
The Fairy Queen, Helen Ward (7), casts a spell over her helpers (from left Gillian Nicol, Jillian Gilhooley, Lynn Cranston, Carol Lawrie, Lynn Dickson, Lorna McLeod) during the Silverknowes Primary School concert in November 1968. | TSPL Photo: TSPL
15. Tynecastle School Football Team
Tynecastle School Football Team in February 1964. | TSPL Photo: TSPL
16. Opera time
The pupils of James Gillespie's and George Heriot's school at the rehearsal of the Gilbert & Sullivan opera Patience, February 1969. | TSPL Photo: TSPL