PE at school. Have they got the methods wrong?

aliasojo

I've just had a conversation with daughter.

She was injured in PE and had to go to hospital for an X-Ray.

She was fine and I phoned to school to let them know the results and that she was told she was not to do PE until her injury was completely healed. I asked that her PE teacher be told.

The same PE teacher (when she turned up with no PE kit) told her she should have brought a note in and she should still have brought her PE kit.

Why? Did he seriously think it was reasonable to make someone who he saw being injured previously, enough to require hospital attention and whose parent phoned the school to explain the situation, still change into PE kit just to stand and watch.

What is wrong with these people? Seriously?

I see no sense in it.

A better use of time would be if he'd made her go to the library (in school clothes) and study something sport related.

But making her change just for the sake of it?!

Please explain the logic to me because right now I just think he's an @rse. (Obviously have not conveyed this feeling to daughter btw.)

cottonhead

I used to hate PE at school. I was fairly good at the academic side and during PE all the !!!!!y girls who were not interested in learning suddenly found something they were good at and used to use PE sessions to bully the other girls. Making physical threats, taunting and even pushing one girl naked out into the corridoor, so not good memories.
Putting that aside I personally think PE is a waste of time. Kids need to learn skills that will help them after they leave school. Our foreign language skills for example are shocking compared to other countires. Should we not spend more time on that ? Team working can be built into other lessons and kids can always be active after school and at weekends. Healhy living can also be built into other lessons so I just dont see the importance of PE in schools at all. Not wehn we are so bad at other stuff. PE is not an essential skill. Even if its sole aim was to make obese kids slim - you would have to have several hours of it a week to be effective - not just 1 or 2. Oh that reminds me - one PE teacher we had was really fat !

luxor4t

daska wrote: »

... oh yes, I had to wear green knickers as well...

We had to wear green socks, hardly in the same league thank goodness :T

Person_one

This isn't me, found it online, but this is almost exactly our old PE kit. No wonder she looks miserable.

aliasojo

There are a lot of teachers who frequent this site.

Are none of them PE teachers?

I'd really love to hear input from their pov.

spidersandsprinkles

cottonhead wrote: »

I used to hate PE at school. I was fairly good at the academic side and during PE all the !!!!!y girls who were not interested in learning suddenly found something they were good at and used to use PE sessions to bully the other girls. Making physical threats, taunting and even pushing one girl naked out into the corridoor, so not good memories.

This was my point exactly. I just wasn't interested in playing sport. Apparently this came across as being useless and making other girls 'lose the game' (God forbid). Along with the teasing in the changing room. Even if you weren't the one being teased it was a horrible environment to be in

Emmarillo

My year six daughter is really sporty and active and yet hates PE at school mostly for the reasons you've mentioned and also because they have to get changed in a mixed sex classroom (despite the two year six classes doing PE together so it wouldn't be hard to have girls in one classroom and boys in the other). Her school have a new rule about no tracksuit bottoms to be worn for safety reasons; and only an official school sweatshirt (the rule came in last term and as my daughter leaves in a few months I can't justify the cost).

It's almost as though the teachers want to make it the most unpleasant and humiliating experience possible. I still remember the purple mottled thighs we would all have after cross country in the middle of winter.

Janepig

What's odd though, is that DD plays rugby and does gymnastics out of school, and has also done swimming and cheerleading, and DS currently plays football for a local team and has just started swimming, and all of their various coaches are fantastic. DD's rugby coach and DS's football coach both give up their time voluntarily (although we pay subs to the clubs involved) and they are assisted by various other people who give up their time to encourage the kids. I take my hat off to them, honestly I do because they are amazing people. Maybe the difference is that the kids they train, for the most part, WANT to be there.

The teacher in DD's school who does their sporty stuff (not a PE teacher as such, he teaches year 6, but he's the one that organises all the sporty things they do) is nice enough, but he's all for the sporty kids and the ones who aren't don't get a look in with him. I'm told he's got his teachers pets (the ones who are sporty) and doesn't bother with the others. So DD will be okay!!

Jx

daska

aliasojo wrote: »

Please explain the logic to me because right now I just think he's an @rse. (Obviously have not conveyed this feeling to daughter btw.)

There is no logic, he is an @rse.

The excuse I have heard most often is that if the kids have to get changed they 'feel more involved'. Erm... no, generally they just feel cold, bored and miserable. I know, I spent many a games lesson with a 'sprained' ankle/wrist/thumb. I know exactly how it felt and 'involved' was as far removed from realisty as was possible - but sitting on the cold wet grass was marginally more pleasant than being whacked round the head with a lacrosse stick.

aliasojo

daska wrote: »

There is no logic, he is an @rse.

I appreciate you validating my feelings.