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.
17. Albany nursery school
Children playing musical instruments during a birthday party at Albany nursery school in Madeira Street Edinburgh in November 1967. | TSPL Photo: TSPL
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