EVERYBODY knows Lisa Stansfield as an internationally successful singer/songwriter but perhaps fewer remember her first big break in a school production of Winnie the Pooh - with Lisa cast in the unlikely role of the honey-loving bear.
Fewer still probably remember Lisa's on-off habit of fainting in the playground as a small child, only to be gathered up by the dinner ladies and offered sweet tea and biscuits.
"Maybe I fainted on purpose so I could be brought in with the dinner ladies and be given sweet tea," Lisa joked.
Now 40 and an international star, much has changed since Lisa's Bullough Moor days but only a few years ago she pulled up outside the school to have a look through the gates. Hearing of the school's closure she was pleased she had that last look before it disappears.
Speaking from her home in Dublin, she said: "It is like a representation of part of my life and it is funny to think it will just be obliterated. A few years ago me and my husband went to see my grandma and I drove up to the school just to see it again.
"I got out of the car and had a look around. Everything looked so tiny but years ago it seemed massive."
Lisa started at Bullough Moor in 1972 when she was just six years old, finishing to go to Siddal Moor when she was 11. As well as remembering the 'massive' school hall, the outdoor toilets and the kind dinnerladies, Lisa recalls having to borrow a pair of knickers for PE.
She said: "I turned up to school in winter wearing those thick woolly tights when I was about six or seven.
"And because we were doing PE in our knickers and vests, I suddenly realised I hadn't remembered to put my knickers on.
"I must have been in a rush to go or something and I totally forgot.
"But then I realised it must have been a common thing because they took me to the cupboard and I got this big frilly pair - I was so relieved!"
And Lisa still has clear memories of the Bullough Moor teaching staff, particularly one glamorous young teacher who was her role model.
She added: "I used to think that Mrs Diggle was really sophisticated - she had her hair cut like Joanna Lumley from The Avengers.
"And she had a good way of making you think you weren't doing any work but you were."
Some teachers were stricter, but Lisa recalls Bullough Moor as a relaxed and friendly school that encouraged her talents.
She said: "I think it was a lovely school in the respect that there wasn't any pressure to do what you didn't want to.
"Obviously you had to learn some things you didn't want to, but they encouraged you to do the things that you liked. I think it was a really nice way to start your school days."
Having known she wanted to be a singer from the age of five and landing her first record contract at 15, Lisa is now a household name famed for hits like Been Around the World.
She said: "Everyone but me wanted me to do it on my own. I was like, I can't do it, I can't do it, but I'm still doing it so I'm all right.
"The best part is when we are writing something, creating something totally new.
"Something that is just a little idea in your head, then it gets to the stage when you are playing what you heard in your head."
Now living in Dublin and working on her fourth album with husband Ian, Lisa frequently visits their New York apartment and performs shows all over the world.