ah.

I remember back from when I was at PS we paid a "book fee" and we all sat a class at a time in the corridow and would get our exercise books and pencils and so forth item by item - and two boy from my class were excluded from the process because (according to the teacher) their parents were stingy and got them "crummy" books from the newsagency ... But text books were class sets - we didn't have our own - and our exercise books etc were kept in our tubs, and then our desks.

But from grade 6 onwards, we just had a book list and a stationery list, which our parents had to buy us before the start of the school year ...

I guess it's just another thing which has changed since I was at school!