[HPforGrownups] Yearbooks/Harry Potter TV series

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In a message dated 26/10/2001 02:53:07 GMT Daylight Time, Zarleycat at aol.com 
writes:

<< Yearbooks - do schools in the UK have yearbooks?  >>

No. It's not a common thing. My school had one made up for my final year (7th 
Form/Year 13, Sept 1999 - June 2000), and that was for our year only and it 
was initiated by people in my year. They came up with the idea, they carried 
it out, but what happened to the books I don't know, cos I never saw a 
finished article. Not that I have any real desire to see many people from 
high school again. We do however get yearly class & personal photos done at 
school. My school thankfully stopped doing this ever year at year 12, but in 
year 13 we had a last commemorative tutor group photo and personal one for 
our parents. 
On the whole though, Year books aren't the done thing. In our school the only 
reason it happend was the girls that came up with the idea were obviously 
trying to Americanise our school. They created the Prom at the end of our 
GCSEs as well (something else that doesn't happen in UK schools generally).

The occasional school might do it as the norm, but usually (in my experience) 
it doesn't happen. I just went to the local comprehensive, but have a lot of 
friends that are public school (as in private expensive education at big 
country manor houses on the kent & sussex downs, not as in normal anyone can 
attend schools) kids and they don't have it either.

Sara