Back in the 80s the British School of Kuwait used to be called Sunshine School. It started off as a nursery before eventually turning into a middle school. My class I believe was the second class to graduate from the school (Junior 4), but it was also the last class since the 1990 invasion happened and the school ended up closing down. Once the war was over it reopened again as BSK.
This past weekend while in Lebanon I found a bunch of photos, two of which I’m sharing here. The first one on top I believe was taken at Sunshine School when it was still a nursery, based on my age in that picture I’d say around 1980-1981.
The photo above was taken at their second campus. In total, Sunshine School had three campuses, the third one is still around but I think the first two were demolished ages ago.
If you’re in any of the photos by some weird chance let me know. I have another photo I scanned this weekend in which I found three current friends of mine in not knowing they were in my class back then.
Here are the photos above in full res [Picture 1] [Picture 2]
24 replies on “Sunshine School 1980-84”
Back before the days that schools made a mint selling uniforms…..
I want to know how that dapper kid in the back row with the suite looks like today
nice find,, thanks for sharing
i really need to go back to my parents place with this scanner https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HR89FNK/
There are just a ton of photos and I never have enough time to go through them all properly
Mark, is that you on the top row 3rd from the left (1st picture) and bottom 1st from the left (2nd picture) ?
yes thats me!
Dear Mark I was at sunshine school too in Kuwait..I remember a friend very quit and polite..please let us hear from you..I’m a refugee in Turkey now .+905313305377
What were your classmates like? Did you get good grades?
Was an A student up to junior 4. Then the gulf war happened and I changed like 4 schools in 5 years and my GPA went down to a 2.2
Mark, I’m the first picture, right in the middle of the second row
oh no way, did you graduate Sunshine in 1990 cuz i think there was a sherif in my class
I believe there was another Sherif, I left in 1988, then in 1990 we had to move out of Kuwait … then life went on and on. I’ve actually got quite a few photos scanned from that time
Share them!
Mark, is that you standing behind me
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7kqlf-XIUy1SmplYzlOampScWM/view?usp=sharing
No I was a chubby kid 😅 if you have more just put them up on Imgur.com easier for u to drag and drop all of them
a couple more from 1983
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7kqlf-XIUy1SmplYzlOampScWM/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7kqlf-XIUy1SlpJTjA4SFh4dzg/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7kqlf-XIUy1SFJMQ3I4LUo0NXc/view?usp=sharing
Mark, you’re a swell human being! Your blog is very nice.
I can relate to that feeling of displacement… belonging nowhere in particular, and suddenly finding yourself a foreigner in your own country. Anyway, the Gulf war changed everything- most of it bad and some of it very good.
As a Carmelite, I miss my old school- Carmel Convent which back in the day used to be housed in a sprawling campus spread over 20 odd villas on Gulf Street adjacent to where the UK embassy is still stood, and diagonally across from the Kuwait towers. What a swell location that was to have for a school? I have more memories of the campus than I do of the teachers that taught us or what we learned in the Convent.
It’s a shame that Carmel school had to drop the word Convent from
its title. That and the fact they had to re-locate from their purpose built campus in Salwa to an obscure place in Kheitan. It is I believe a reflection of the insular, intolerant and xenophobic times
we live in.
i miss yoy mark i rember you i was the black kid in the bottom right i rember you had that yellow bag
Hey what was your name??
hI how are you
I remember very well and i even recognize some students.
On the second picture, the second row, thats hoda number 6 and next to her number 7 was rula, on the first row was omar.
In other picture s i recogize other students that were in my class and some were in the same schoolbus the blue bus.
Nice memories.