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.
14. Winners
Computers were presented to, from left, Clare Kelly 13, Sarah Burke 12, Rachel Cook 13 and Gillian Smith 13, after winning an anti shop lifting competition at Notre Dame School organised by Sheffield and District Chamber of Trade, December 19, 1983
15. Maypole
Children of Hucklow First School, Firth Park, Sheffield, dancing round the maypole before an audience of parents in the school yard, May 18, 1983
16. Posy for a princess
Sarah Hames, aged eight, from Hyde Park First School presents Princess Anne with a posy when she visited Sheffield on September 25, 1984