Historically, the last day of term would herald the rollout of the school disco, and even though we were approaching the end of the decade and technology had made huge leaps forward, our disco lagged somewhat behind and still looked like something out of the late 1970s.

“The Big Snow” as it became known in the press, was the result of a cold wave over the UK which formed in early December 1981 and would last until late January 1982.