From: greg stephens: Interesting there is a virtually total lack of school references in English language folksong, as far as I know. "To see the young collegians a-playing at the ball" is about all I can come up with.

Can I suggest The Two Brothers:

Two pretty boys were coming from school
In the evening going home.
Said the elder boy to the littler boy
'Oh, can you throw a stone'
'It's little I can throw a stone' he said
'And little play at ball.
But if you come down to yonder green wood
I'll try you a wrestling fall.'

Not a great advert for their PE teacher.