PE at school. Have they got the methods wrong?

Torry_Quine

Person_one wrote: »

You did ballroom dance in PE? Oh my word I can't imagine a much more embarrassing and stressful thing to put young teenagers through! Who picked the partners? Did you all dance at once or were you ever watched by the rest of the group?

Only snogging lessons would have been more mortifying!

How about Scottish country dancing. :eek:

balletshoes

Person_one wrote: »

You did ballroom dance in PE? Oh my word I can't imagine a much more embarrassing and stressful thing to put young teenagers through! Who picked the partners? Did you all dance at once or were you ever watched by the rest of the group?

Only snogging lessons would have been more mortifying!

we all danced at once, with the teacher in the middle of the hall attempting to teach us the moves (I still recall very clearly one of the male PE teachers demonstrating the cha-cha - hilarious it was :rotfl::rotfl:).

Sometimes the girls picked the boys, sometimes the boys picked the girls.

balletshoes

Torry_Quine wrote: »

How about Scottish country dancing. :eek:

ballroom was worse, in my opinion (we only did Scottish country dancing in primary school, but to be honest I still remember and still can do the Scottish country dances at family do's - in fact I taught my DD a couple of dances last weekend at my uncle's 90th birthday party ). Apart from the quickstep and the waltz, even my aunts, uncles, grannys etc didn't do ballroom dancing.

Person_one

balletshoes wrote: »

we all danced at once, with the teacher in the middle of the hall attempting to teach us the moves (I still recall very clearly one of the male PE teachers demonstrating the cha-cha - hilarious it was :rotfl::rotfl:).

Sometimes the girls picked the boys, sometimes the boys picked the girls.

Jeez, its bad enough being picked last when its just because you can't catch, when its opposite sex dance partners the pressure must be insane!

andygb

Person_one wrote: »

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balletshoes

Person_one wrote: »

Jeez, its bad enough being picked last when its just because you can't catch, when its opposite sex dance partners the pressure must be insane!

i don't remember it being a huge deal, probably because it was such a big mixed class, there were easily 90 kids in each of those dance lessons.

tinktinktinkerbell

aliasojo wrote: »

There were a few sporty souls in our class who enjoyed PE but the majority of us didn't. Kids generally enjoy being active, if they hate PE, is that not down to the teaching methods rather than the activity?

i hated PE but that was because i couldnt do it not couldnt as in not very good at it, couldnt as in couldnt because i spent most of my school life (as in middle and high school) on crutches and in a leg brace

im pleased i missed it tbh, they only seemed to do cross country or orienteering

Torry_Quine

Person_one wrote: »

Jeez, its bad enough being picked last when its just because you can't catch, when its opposite sex dance partners the pressure must be insane!

The pressure would be huge although at least I might have made a better attempt at my waltz with my husband at our wedding.