Join us as we take a wander down memory lane to see how teachers, children and schools across the city looked during the course of the decade.
These pictures capture school children as they proudly display their conkers, bury time capsules and take part in Comic Relief celebrations.
From school PE sessions to classroom lessons, Royal visits, Maypole dances and even an early photo of Pulp founder Jarvis Cocker – here are 31 nostalgic photos that give an insight into what school was like back then.
These pictures also show what the classrooms and school buildings looked like back in the 1980s – Some of these schools featured are no longer open today.
Do these nostalgic images bring back any memories of your schooldays, and can you spot yourself or anyone else you recognise?
What is your most memorable moment of attending school in the 1980s? Answers on a postcard or an email.
1. Bankwood team
It's the 1980 football team of Bankwood School, Gleadless Valley, Sheffield. Back row, from left to right; Mark Smith, Jeff Hardy, Phil Gibson, Mark Hopkinson. Middle row: John Sorsby, Shaun Levett, Paul Rodgers, David Drabble. Front row: Shaun Stokes, ? McKenna, Shane Stokes and Jason Clarke
2. Jam roly-poly for school dinner
Everyone has their own favourite traditional school dinner from their childhood but a staple in the 80s was the jam roly-poly - a suet pudding spread with jam and rolled up, often served with custard, and sometimes less appetisingly referred to as 'dead man's arm'. If you were really lucky you might have got an arctic roll, made by wrapping vanilla ice cream in a jam-slathered sponge. This photo shows pupils queuing for their dinner at Silverdale School, Sheffield, in 1980. | Sheffield Newspapers
3. Climbing ropes
Climbing ropes were still very much part of PE lessons for many pupils in the 1980s. Shimmying up a rope was viewed as a vital skill back then, as students grappled with the fear of friction burns or plummeting onto the thin gym mats below. This photo was actually taken back in the 1930s, at Shirecliffe Council School in Sheffield but shows the sort of ropes children were tasked with climbing decades later. | Picture Sheffield
4. Home economics
Pamela Evans, head of home economics, with pupils Graham Learmonth, Jason Hogan, Nigel Brindley and Steven Oldfield at High Storrs School, Sheffield, in March 1980 | Sheffield Newspapers