Did you enjoy PE at school?

wicklowstevo

went to a very sports oriented school so yes i did enjoy it , there was lots of choice of sports so every one could find their own one , varied from gaa cross country to golf swimming and road racing. there was always a few girls mostly who preferred to spend time sitting in a empty class room or study hall . couldn't really figure that out.

pe was a good way to build team skills develop socially and physically.

annascott

Loved it all except hockey and cross-country (why was that always in winter when everything was cold and muddy?)
My school had a fantastic gym, decent tennis courts a full size athletic track and a 10ft deep swimming pool. Nice PE teachers too - no sadistic bullies.

Fred Swanson

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dd972

When Paedo Kennedy took our class due to staff shortage he seemed to really enjoy it.

Not G.R

Anyone here go to Declan's in Cabra?

Running the Bogies in a shîtey yellow singlet and knicker shorts

Washington Irving

It was just a game of indoor soccer with the lads, or on the rare warmer days football or hurling. Best 45 minutes of the school week.

Everyone had the option of whether or not to do PE after the Junior Cert and probably 2/3 chose not to.

Vito Corleone

I never really enjoyed it, although, I never really felt comfortable in PE or at school.

Shanotheslayer

Not G.R wrote: »

Anyone here go to Declan's in Cabra?

Running the Bogies in a shîtey yellow singlet and knicker shorts

Ah F**k man I know how you feel. Worst was when it changed from 1 lap to 2! Yellow singlet was horrific!

orangesoda

It was ok, my teachers were big GAA men and so we mostly played football, rugby and the odd bit of soccer or gymnastics, i hated the changing rooms though, people pulled down peoples shorts for the laugh and blasted footballs around to try and hit people on the face

mrsdewinter

Yeah, I missed a trick with PE in school. I was pretty skinny, so I didn't care about exercising to lose weight, and I was embarrassingly uncoordinated and self-conscious - if there was a ball to be caught, or a physical skill to be mastered, I was outta there.
I'd love to blame the jock-ish PE teachers we had but the truth is I thought physical fitness and sports were for other people.
Roll on 20 years, and here I am on the cusp of middle age, plodding along as I follow the Irish Times Get Running programme. Why didn't I do this 25 years ago?

Riddle101

I enjoyed it, but hated one particular class where they tried to teach us dancing. Very awkward class.

Xavi6

Sugarlumps wrote: »

PE was awesome, attended a mixed school so we got to splendour at heaving glistening breasts, nipples dancing through the whites of t-shirts.

Ha, so true! Going to a mixed school made PE the highlight of the week.

I was on as many school teams as I could be (football, GAA, basketball, tennis, whatever) to get out of as many classes as possible. PE was another 80 minutes a week of escapism from the academic side of things which was fine by me. Badminton was great fun when we played it.

c68zapdsm5i1ru

Aineoil wrote: »

I am the most unsporty person you could ever meet. But in fairness we had an excellent PE teacher who encouraged us all the time. We did gymnastics, basketball, hockey, badminton and tennis.

I was crap at all of those sports. I enjoyed them all to a point except for hockey.

But I do remember the way she encouraged us all to have a go. She always had something positive to say. This was in Ireland of the

80's, maybe she was ahead of her time, but her encouragement - "to have a go" no matter how bad you may be at something has still

stuck with me to this day. She never said I was bad at sport.......but I knew I was.

Trying to mitch in an all girls school run by nuns......are you joking me?

If the nuns didn't get you the other bitchy girls would do the work for them. Character building!

I went to an all girls' school run by nuns. There was nearly as many girls hiding in locker rooms and empty classrooms during PE as there were down in the gym taking part!

force eleven

Never saw the point of it really. Cycled 6 miles to school, ran around the yard at lunch, and then they wanted to exercise the bejeesus out of you at PE time.

Of course, no one cycles to school anymore....

Too Tough To Die

Hated PE, and i was good at sports.

LoonyLovegood

I tried taking part in PE, but I've never been sporty. I was fairly sick for the first half of TY, and went on the outdoor activities trips with them. Took me a while to get up a hill during one of the hillwalking days, and the PE teacher goes to me "You're so unfit, you'll be dead by the time you're forty"...I may have forgotten my kit every day from then on.

Green Giant

PE at my school went as thus...

"Miss can we have a soccer ball to kick around for an hour and 20 minutes?"

"There you go. Don't get hurt."

gramar

I was off my tits on mushrooms one day at PE.
I saw some strange shít man.

Skatedude

hated every moment of pe and i was fit enough to win most of the events at the
school sports event every year.

We had a gym with basketball, hockey, badminton and a few others as well as a football pitch.
So what did we do every bloody time, football, and more football and then even more football. i Despise football, and so did most of the class.