Schools are not just places of academic learning, they are environments in which children learn valuable life lessons and where they experience the things that will shape them as adults. Teachers and parents alike have strong views on what these lessons and experiences should be, but what do the children themselves value?

TES surveyed 2,500 primary children - from across the maintained, independent and alternative provision sectors - to find out what they believe every child should have done at school before the age of 11.

Pick up the 22 July issue of TES for a free giant poster for the classroom of the 100 things they chose, which looks like this:

And here’s the list in full:

1. Call a teacher mum or dad
2. Make good friends
3. Tell the teacher to “chill out”
4. Get covered in paint/mud/chalk
5. Laugh hysterically when someone farts
6. Take part in a school production
7. Have a water fight
8. Go swimming
9. Be made to sit next to your enemy
10. Forget your homework
11. Have a nickname
12. Do something silly and realise a teacher is standing behind you
13. Laugh so much that drink comes out through your nose
14. Throw a paper plane
15. Fall out with a friend
16. Take part in a sports tournament
17. Draw a face on a rubber
18. Go on a school trip
19. Get a certificate
20. Get told off
21. Experience other schools
22. Learn how to get on with everyone
23. Invent something
24. Make a fool out of yourself/embarrass yourself more than once
25. Work with children from older year groups
26. Grow some flowers or vegetables
27. Fall off your chair when you swing on it
28. Learn to feel confident in front of your class
29. Be a leader of a group
30. Feel like you can trust someone
31. Raise money for charity
32. Have a party in school
33. Run a stall at a fair
34. Teach part of a lesson to your class
35. Make a best friend
36. Take part in outdoor learning
37. Forget you have homework until the day before it’s due
38. Deal with a difficult situation
39. Watch a film in class
40. Have a pyjama day
41. Take part in a class assembly
42. Tell a joke
43. Ride a bike and take cycling proficiency
44. Pretend to be the teacher
45. Have a huff and get in a mood
46. Be in the local newspaper 
47. Kick the ball over a wall
48. Fail so that you can improve on your mistakes
49. Feel happy and safe
50. Eat school chips
51. Have a class pet
52. Go to an after-school club
53. Play “Heads Down Thumbs Up”
54. Find out that you are good at something
55. Find out about different cultures
56. Be caring
57. Discover your favourite author
58. Take part in a special event
59. Attend a school disco
60. Create an exploding volcano
61. Be part of a team
62. Be inspired by a teacher
63. Have a play day
64. Make a card for a special person
65. Fall asleep in a lesson
66. Call a male teacher “Miss”
67. Run round a corridor corner only to smash into a teacher
68. Lose an item of clothing that does not have your name stitched into it
69. Hatch chicks in an incubator
70. Get to see inside the headteacher’s office
71. Read a book on the grass on a sunny day
72. Be kind to someone who needs a friend
73. Run around in the rain
74. Play conkers
75. Make a daisy chain
76. Listen to a ghost story
77. Visit Santa in his grotto
78. Go pond dipping
79. Dress up for World Book Day
80. Try different types of food
81. Learn to skip
82. Learn basic first aid and how to dial 999
83. Film and edit a movie
84. Have a pen pal
85. Graze your knee in the playground
86. Eat your lunch in the rain on a school trip
87. Freak out when the fire alarm goes, secretly hoping it’s actually the real thing
88. Help younger pupils at school
89. Make up a dance routine in the playground
90. Have your parents come to visit the school
91. Get to spin on the teacher’s chair
92. Be sick in the classroom
93. Laugh during sexual health lessons
94. Have a wasp in the classroom
95. Come into school with a new haircut
96. Forget to write your name on your work
97. Be sad to leave
98. Learn to look after yourself
99. Throw a custard pie at a teacher
100. Giggle

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