How were your school PE lessons?

cloud493 · 10-12-2012 12:26PM #1

Ours were rubbish. It was either cross country endless running for two hours, or being locked outside with a football. Used to get some mad injuries though.

BUBBLE WRAP · 10-12-2012 12:29PM

In primary school there was no P.E. the teacher was fat and she said she didn't like exercise. :rolleyes:

Secoundary school P.E. was okay, we used to flunk class and smoke doobies and get an angry handy J..

van_beano · 10-12-2012 12:30PM

cloud493 wrote: »

Ours were rubbish. It was either cross country endless running for two hours, or being locked outside with a football. Used to get some mad injuries though.

Badminton or hockey! I mean who in their right mind plays either "sport"?

If it were raining we'd be put outside to play hockey, legs would be red from gettin smacked with the hockey sticks! I learnt, though, that hockey sticks felt harder than hurley sticks!

Oh how I miss the Secondary school PE curriculum

4zn76tysfajdxp · 10-12-2012 12:32PM

BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

In primary school there was no P.E. the teacher was fat and she said she didn't like exercise. :rolleyes:

You had one teacher throughout primary school?

franktheplank · 10-12-2012 12:33PM

If it weren't for school PE I wouldn't be the sexy Olympic athlete I am today.

tomboylady · 10-12-2012 12:34PM

Primary school was usually an hour of football every few months. Secondary school was two hours per week. Sometimes it would be running, high jump, long jump, etc. Other times it would be football or basketball. Usually always indoors.

squod · 10-12-2012 12:35PM

Smoking FTW.

BUBBLE WRAP · 10-12-2012 12:35PM

Princeton Scruffy Duct wrote: »

You had one teacher throughout primary school?

Two, one from junior infants to 2nd class. (them classes never done P.E.) The other teacher done P.E. once every 7 months if you're lucky..

homemadecider · 10-12-2012 12:36PM

I often got out of PE by mentioning key words to the male teacher... "cramps" or "period" or even "fallopian tubes" usually worked a treat.

Poor fella never seemed to notice that all the girls in my class had their period at the same time... every week!

Wacker The Attacker · 10-12-2012 12:36PM

It was a doss

I_smell_fear · 10-12-2012 12:37PM

van_beano wrote: »

Badminton or hockey! I mean who in their right mind plays either "sport"?

If it were raining we'd be put outside to play hockey, legs would be red from gettin smacked with the hockey sticks! I learnt, though, that hockey sticks felt harder than hurley sticks!

Hockey is a very underrated and under appreciated sport if you ask me. I grew up as a child being obsessed with hurling, thinking it was the best sport ever (well, I still do tbh). I then took up hockey in secondary school, once you play it you will appreciate the huge technical and physical requirements to the game. It definitely helped that I had a truly brilliant coach however. Also it really doesn't help if you have to play on those nasty grit/gravel pitches.

dgt · 10-12-2012 12:39PM

Rubbish and biased towards the school football team....

10-12-2012 12:39PM

It was pretty pathetic really.
We had one 40 minute class of PE right in the middle of the day, twice a week. That meant we had to get into and out of our gym gear within that time. So really about 50 minutes of exercise a week.

I was really into sport so I did basketball, football, and badminton, as extra curriculur activities in school and Kenpo and Athletics outside of school so I was kept pretty fit despite the rubbish Physical Education they provided.

norrie rugger · 10-12-2012 12:42PM

in secondary school; if you played hurling then you got PE (only if you were good though), otherwise nothing.

In primary school it was hurling or swimming. Everyone went swimming at least, unlike hurling where only the players trained.
Those of us on the swim team got propper training session, don't think that it was much PE for the rest, as it was just a mess around session.

Duggy747 · 10-12-2012 12:45PM

The fellas who played on the football team were put out on the pitch to play while the rest of us were told to stay inside the basketball court and play with all the broken equipment and soft footballs that looked like somebody had been eating them.

Biggins · 10-12-2012 12:46PM

Rubbish - a total waste of time.
Just running around a field or allowed kick a ball around while the teachers all got together, went off to a corner to smoke, drink (tea I presume) and had about an extra hour and half of sitting in their cars when the weather got cold, leaving us outside.

Today if I was Minister of Education, I would use the same time space allocated to PE, to be used to specific sport(s) with proper instruction by trained professionals - that or if the weather is bad, get them all inside and have them all learning first aid, etc!

It was a Christian Brothers School and they didn't give a crap!

Jester252 · 10-12-2012 12:48PM

Had 2 hours of P.E a week from 1st to 3rd year. It got replace after a month in 5th year to a 2 hour honor maths class.
In primary school it was once in a blue moon that we had a class that wasn't one of the main three and even when that happen P.E was rare.

Jogathon · 10-12-2012 12:52PM

I loved PE in primary and secondary. But I love sport, and maybe I was just more enthusiastic than most! But I do think that we did have a great PE teacher in secondary especially. I think that some of the girls didn't like it. We generally split up into 3 groups, one group outside playing soccer (I was usually the only girl that did that with all the lads), then another class of basketball and most of the girls used to do yoga upstairs in the balcony. So it was well organised so that everyone could choose something they liked and that they could get something out of the class.

Our male teacher was very upfront too about periods! No hope of being allowed to back out - he always said that it wasn't an injury so take part anyway. He had a great attitude, all the girls took part in every lesson because of this.

10-12-2012 12:54PM

Mostly basketball in secondary, loved it, played it after school also

branie · 10-12-2012 12:57PM

Biggins wrote: »

Rubbish - a total waste of time.
Just running around a field or allowed kick a ball around while the teachers all got together, went off to a corner to smoke, drink (tea I presume) and had about an extra hour and half of sitting in their cars when the weather got cold, leaving us outside.

Today if I was Minister of Education, I would use the same time space allocated to PE, to be used to specific sport(s) with proper instruction by trained professionals - that or if the weather is bad, get them all inside and have them all learning first aid, etc!

It was a Christian Brothers School and they didn't give a crap!

I went to a CBS secondary school, and I was excused from PE, as I had gone to a special school beforehand

cloud493 · 10-12-2012 12:58PM

I did PE for GSCE as well, still pretty rubbish. Only thing that changed was the variety of stuff you could do. I remember part of the final grade, it was something to do with a sport, and almost the entire class chose swimming, cos sure its swimming grand.

And we went to a pool pretty far out from the school, proper professional like, deep. And both of the girls in the class came out with 'its our time of the month' and the teacher just went 'your either gonna jump in or i'm gonna throw you in

10-12-2012 01:27PM

It was pretty dire growing up in a school in Raheny. The PE "teacher" - nah he did not even deserve that title - the PE guy either just made us run around or play football. Literally nothing else. He referred the entire games from a chair in one corner of the pitch which he only ever left to actually leave - which he did a lot and none of us knew where he went - though half the time he would come back before the end of the "game".

The only thing he was invariably always there for and never missed was walking around the dressing rooms and showers after the game while everyone got naked and showered. Though he usually was gone by the time there was very little left to - oversee - there.

minidazzler · 10-12-2012 01:32PM

Thinking back, pretty good.

Always started with stretching from the top down.

Warm up jogs around the hall.

A Game of handball, Basket ball, football tennis, long jump, dodge ball etc.

Then a game of soccer for the last 20 mins.

Before doing a warm down stretch.

We were never taught the theory behind the stretches and all that, but to this day, i still stretch fully before exercise.

bbam · 10-12-2012 01:33PM

Deleted User wrote: »

The only thing he was invariably always there for and never missed was walking around the dressing rooms and showers after the game while everyone got naked and showered. Though he usually was gone by the time there was very little left to - oversee - there.

This!
Our "teacher" would do this. Come in and stand in the doorway to the communal shower and watch a bunch of young lads showering. We weren't comfortable with it then and thinking back it was very iffy indeed. He was a creepy guy at the best of times!!

SEPT 23 1989 · 10-12-2012 01:36PM

Indoor football in the winter

outdoor football the rest of the time

pretty good

shruikan2553 · 10-12-2012 01:42PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Indoor football in the winter

outdoor football the rest of the time

pretty good

This. A lot of the time boys and girls were split up with guys playing football and girls doing something else. Hated football so managed to get a doctors note to let me out of PE. Funny how now in college when I get a choice of clubs to join my allergies are no longer a problem.

SeaFields · 10-12-2012 01:44PM

Indoor / outdoor soccer for two hours. Run the legs off ourselves and twas good exercise.

Swimming lessons at the local pool were a balls tho. Swimming laps of the pools for an hour and a half. If you were like me and couldn't swim more than five feet at the time it made for a terrifying session. Several lads would be plucked out of the pool with tiredness each week by the lifeguards. :eek:

Rasmus · 10-12-2012 01:47PM

I remember P.E. days being horrible and freezing. There was sometimes some hockey but mainly pointless rolling on mats in knicker-shorts. Square dancing or Ceili sometimes. Did my best to have a sick-note often.

10-12-2012 01:50PM

PE in my school was crap. It more or less consisted of GAA/soccer for 2 hours every Wednesday. Complete joke. I would have much preferred rowing, basketball, tennis, etc. Narrow minded school.

Toto Wolfcastle · 10-12-2012 01:54PM

Pretty good up until 6th year. We did indoor hockey, soccer, basketball, rounders, a version of dodgeball, tennis, volleyball, badminton, high jump and a few more. We also had a swimming pool in the school so we went swimming regularly. In 6th year we had 2 or 3 teachers doing PE with us every week so we usually had a choice between soccer, basketball and a walk that usually ended up in the shop.

seven_eleven · 10-12-2012 01:59PM

We had a pedophile wannabe science teacher. He used to make us sit and listen to him rant on about something like "why the clouds are moving", or sometimes he used to make us figure out these rétarded riddles.
We often used to get irritated and start roaring at him for some P.E, to which he would get angry and throw a tantrum before storming out and driving home.

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