PE at school. Have they got the methods wrong?

Callie22

I hated PE at school, until I was about 15/16 when they started letting us older ones join in with the 'normal' activities at the leisure centre - using the gym, aerobics classes etc. Far fewer people bunked off then, than they did when you had to play hockey in the rain being bawled at by a school bully with a teaching qualification.

I really don't see the point of making kids play competitive sports that they hate. Most people I know weren't 'sporty' and they got totally turned off exercise, which seems to me to be totally counterproductive given the fact that kids today really do need exercise. Introduce more non-competitive things that everyone can get into, ban communal showers and I bet most kids would start to love PE.

aliasojo

thegirlintheattic wrote: »

It was probably the case that there was nowhere else to put the kids when it started raining.

This isn't the first time they have been out in bad weather though. It's normal. I drive daughter to and from school every day and have seen the kids out many a time, including when it was snowing. It's a mixed sex group, usually around 20/30 kids.

I once saw a boy with a stookie and crutches having to stand at the end of the pitch in bad weather. Absolutely ridiculous when you consider he wasn't able to generate body heat by moving as the others were.

I don't accept the 'no room' thing btw, there are 2 halls and the gym I mentioned earlier with machines.

I'm sure there would have been an alternative. The teachers are just sadists. See...old habits die hard. :rotfl:

aliasojo

Callie22 wrote: »

I really don't see the point of making kids play competitive sports that they hate. Most people I know weren't 'sporty' and they got totally turned off exercise, which seems to me to be totally counterproductive given the fact that kids today really do need exercise. Introduce more non-competitive things that everyone can get into, ban communal showers and I bet most kids would start to love PE.

:T:T:T

Oh don't start me on the communal showers......:rotfl:

Northern_Princess

I'm another believer in rain won't melt them. My daughters school has them out in all weathers. I never suffered any harm from it and neither will she. I learned the hard way though, put your all all into it and you won't need to do it again :rotfl: I lost count of how many times I was made to do the cross country course again because I hadn't put enough effort in or swim x amount more lengths of the pool.

It drives me mad when I hear about kids moaning about doing PE as a lot of children choose to sit in front of a PS3 or X box and for a lot of them it's the only exercise they do. My daughter/nieces and nephews hate me as the PS3/X box are for winter evenings only and are time limited, their removed in the spring/summer

aliasojo

Northern_Princess wrote: »

It drives me mad when I hear about kids moaning about doing PE as a lot of children choose to sit in front of a PS3 or X box and for a lot of them it's the only exercise they do.

But that's exactly why schools should re-assess their methods.

It shouldn't be about getting *whatever* mark in their sports assessment. It should be about encouraging kids to enjoy and participate in exercise willingly for their whole life.

If they do it right, the kid's interests will broaden and then they might just be a little less likely to hate PE/exercise and want to xbox instead.

All we're doing now, is discouraging them them, albeit unintentionally.

Janepig

I think you'll find that we had the most sadistic PE teacher in our school. I only did cross country the once, in the pouring rain, in the first year in comp (not sure what number that is now, it was form 1 when I was there). We had to go out of the school, up through the woods behind the school, run along a country road at the top end, then back. Periodically, the PE teacher would appear in her car driving past with the window down, fag smoke billowing forth, yelling "come on girls, run, speed up", etc... I walked all the way round, me and my friend came in last and it's the only time I willingly went into the communal shower as it was the quickest way to warm up. My hands were so numb I had to get someone else to unbutton my skirt for me.

And that's just one of the many crimes against schoolchildren that she committed.

Jx

Northern_Princess

aliasojo wrote: »

But that's exactly why schools should re-assess their methods.

It shouldn't be about getting *whatever* mark in their sports assessment. It should be about encouraging kids to enjoy and participate in exercise willingly for their whole life.

If they do it right, the kid's interests will broaden and then they might just be a little less likely to hate PE/exercise and want to xbox instead.

All we're doing now, is discouraging them them, albeit unintentionally.

It never put me of PE to be honest and we weren't assessed in PE when as was at school, daughter isn't either as she only takes it as it's compulsory. We are very sporty though and very competitive. I always enjoyed PE so maybe that's the difference. I think the xbox/PS3 issue is more down to parents monitoring the use of it. You rarely see kids out playing football etc these days as their all too busy playing online

mildred1978

gingin wrote: »

We had to wear green P.E knickers ( nothing else on top) with a a pale green airtex shirt up to the age of 16. It was humiliation every time.

We used to have to run around the school, I think it was a mile, on the public pavements for "cross country" ( it was in the centre of town) wearing these stupid knickers. I'm 34, so I'm not ancient, this was in the '90s

Snap, except ours were white airtex tops (you can imagine what happened when they made us run in the rain). Mixed school too.

Oddly, we were made to wear grey pleated skirts over the knickers, but only for netball, not hockey.

You know what they say. Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach. Those who can't teach, teach PE.

Person_one

Northern_Princess wrote: »

It drives me mad when I hear about kids moaning about doing PE as a lot of children choose to sit in front of a PS3 or X box and for a lot of them it's the only exercise they do. My daughter/nieces and nephews hate me as the PS3/X box are for winter evenings only and are time limited, their removed in the spring/summer

Kids have been moaning about PE for a lot longer than there have been Xboxes! :rotfl:

I used to play out for hours and hours at home, cricket, football, kerby, cycling, manhunt etc. and I went to swimming club and diving training three days a week till I was 16, but I hated PE after primary school.

We also had to wear gym knickers and take communal showers and this was the nineties! We also had to wear leotards for 'dance' which was great when you were 12, had just started your periods and were wearing a massive pad that you hadn't quite got the hang of yet. Periods were not considered a good enough excuse to skip either the lesson or the communal shower.

melancholly

mildred1978 wrote: »

Snap, except ours were white airtex tops (you can imagine what happened when they made us run in the rain).

airtex - the only fabric designed to get you sunburnt through the material!