Did you enjoy PE at school?

c68zapdsm5i1ru · 03-02-2014 01:15PM #1

So many people I know, myself included, still have horrible memories of PE in school. I wasn't a sporty or athletic kid, and there was nothing in the way it was taught to encourage pupils like me. We were either left standing fruitlessly on the side of the pitch, or humiliated by always dropping the ball, missing the net etc. while a track suited dragon shouted and blew a whistle.
Like a lot of my class mates I spent more time avoiding PE sessions, coming up with endless excuses or hiding in the classroom, than taking part. It's taken me years to overcome an aversion to exercise and to start trying to build a healthy amount into my daily routine. Just wondering if it could have been taught in a way that would encourage the non athletic types as well as the naturally talented basketball/hockey/tennis players?

For Forks Sake · 03-02-2014 01:20PM

PE teacher in my school was a former professional soccer player.

Routine consisted of: 1. Pick Teams 2. Winner stays on and 3. I'll be in my office.

petes · 03-02-2014 01:20PM

Yes.

rainbow kirby · 03-02-2014 01:22PM

PE teacher was a hockey coach. I f*cking hate hockey. I loved the rare times when we got to play football or go for a run though.

Shenshen · 03-02-2014 01:24PM

Hated, hated, HATED it! In my view, it was the single worst "subject" I had to put up with at school, worse than Latin and Music even.

Could it have been done differently? Of course it could.
By having teachers actually interested in showing kids how much fun sport can be (I'm nearly 40 now and only discovered that fact some 3 years ago!), by not focussing on one or two types of sport but giving children the choice - there is so much they could be doing, swimming, tennis, aerobics, dance, ... yet it's always some sort of horrible and potentially very very painful team game and running about.

:mad:

BetterThanThou · 03-02-2014 01:25PM

Personally, I disliked it due to the fact that week after week, it was always football. The occasional time it was something like basketball or rounders, I enjoyed it and played circles around everyone else. But most weeks I found myself skipping PE due to the likelihood of the teacher picking football again. Now, I was fairly athletic, but I just couldn't stand football, so it's not the same situation you had. For students like me, I feel it would help if the teachers mixed the sports up, rather than sticking with one nearly every week. And even for non athletic kids I feel it could help, as they may find a sport they like and pursue it outside of PE.

Tzardine · 03-02-2014 01:25PM

Nope. Worst PE teacher ever , lazy mofo he was.

Only enjoyable part was every once in a blue moon when the weather was good we could play rounders.

vitani · 03-02-2014 01:26PM

I had a crush on my PE teacher, so yes.

03-02-2014 01:26PM

We had loads of different sporting activities and PE was a double lesson twice a week.

Hockey
Tennis
Swimming and diving
Track and field
Aerobics
Trampolining
Badminton
Cross country
Dance
Gymnastics

I loved them all (except cross country)

maguic24 · 03-02-2014 01:26PM

No, can't say I did. All we ever did was play soccer! Not that you would get half a chance anyway! I did Taekwondo outside school and loved it. I also love running and was a strong swimmer, so it's not like I hated sport....

I think I just hated team sports......and the fact that you were never even given half a chance to try and improve. PE can go suck on it!

Alf Veedersane · 03-02-2014 01:27PM

I loved PE.

It was called 'Games' in our school...probably so we wouldn't be fooled into thinking it might be anything structured.

An hour of running around a terrible pitch playing football and getting in more than a full quote of sliding tackles.

Bliss.

anncoates · 03-02-2014 01:27PM

Our PE classes weren't exactly structured: generally races, football or a bit of perfunctory gym like vaulting but I always enjoyed it and it was always preferable to normal class.

The Diabolical Monocle · 03-02-2014 01:28PM

PE and Religion ftw.

Absolutely no effort.

FloatingVoter · 03-02-2014 01:28PM

I enjoyed it very much. We had to travel to the local girls secondary school to play basketball. We unfortunately had to pass several pubs on the way there. I never did get to play basketball. But as a contribution to the physical fitness agenda I usually got in a game or two of pool.

SEPT 23 1989 · 03-02-2014 01:28PM

a game of football outside in the fresh air and not stuck in some poxy classroom

whats not to like?

maguic24 · 03-02-2014 01:28PM

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

We had loads of different sporting activities and PE was a double lesson twice a week.

Hockey
Tennis
Swimming and diving
Track and field
Aerobics
Trampolining
Badminton
Cross country
Dance
Gymnastics

I loved them all (except cross country)

I wish our PE classes were like this!!!

awec · 03-02-2014 01:29PM

Best class of the week.

Apart from when you were forced to do the really crap stuff like badminton / tennis / basketball / athletics.

Football / rugby / swimming pool / gym most weeks.

jester77 · 03-02-2014 01:30PM

PE in my school was an IRA guy who had spent a few years in jail and won his job back in court after his release.

Made for fun class. He'd shout line up and we would stand against the wall with our hands raised.

Dyr · 03-02-2014 01:30PM

I think PE classes put a lot of irish people of exercise

I only did PE when I started going to secondary, which was this dickensian christian brothers kip. The PE teacher/drill sargeant used to have us shinning up ropes and bars or hopping over/falling off gym equipment and such, like we were in tom browns school days

I gave that class a body swerve very quickly

phasers · 03-02-2014 01:30PM

In fifth year we had a PE module called "health and grooming" where some beautician bird came in and waxed our eyebrows and told us what colours we should be wearing. This lasted about 3 months.

Aside from that the school didn't really bother with PE, we had it on our timetable but everyone just did their homework from the night before instead.

maguic24 · 03-02-2014 01:31PM

jester77 wrote: »

PE in my school was an IRA guy who had spent a few years in jail and won his job back in court after his release.

Made for fun class. He'd shout line up and we would stand against the wall with our hands raised.

Did you go to school in Longford by any chance? I think I may have had the same guy. I hated PE but I loved Joe, what a legend. :P

anncoates · 03-02-2014 01:32PM

phasers wrote: »

In fifth year we had a PE module called "health and grooming" where some beautician bird came in and waxed our eyebrows and told us what colours we should be wearing.

???

For Forks Sake · 03-02-2014 01:33PM

phasers wrote: »

In fifth year we had a PE module called "health and grooming" where some beautician bird came in and waxed our eyebrows and told us what colours we should be wearing. This lasted about 3 months.

Please tell me this was an all-lads school?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 03-02-2014 01:34PM

We never had any PE!!!

Muise... · 03-02-2014 01:34PM

I had an unfortunate menstrual cycle that struck every Tuesday afternoon, so I either had to go to the library or for a gentle stroll to the beach and a game of pool in the pub on the way back.

topper75 · 03-02-2014 01:34PM

Yahir Putrid Cheesecloth wrote: »

It's taken me years to overcome an aversion to exercise and to start trying to build a healthy amount into my daily routine.

Fair play OP. Exercise and health is yours to claim on your own terms as an adult since you put those memories out of the way.

rainbow kirby wrote: »

PE teacher was a hockey coach. I f*cking hate hockey. I loved the rare times when we got to play football or go for a run though.

Bad form not to have variety. Hardly a shortage of activities to rotate. Doesn't always have to be field sports but these are easy to 'organize' so lazy PE teachers opt for it.

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Winner stays on

Physical education should have nothing to do with winning a game anymore than studying English demand that you write some competition-winning short story.

PE teachers are supposed to study pedagogy for their subject. Sheer laziness and incompetence on behalf of many of them. Please follow OP's example and at least get some kind of daily walk in. Your body is an incredible machine folks - there to be worked, not left fatten, atrophy, or rot.

Bummer1234 · 03-02-2014 01:35PM

Loved P.E so did 90% of the rest of the lads. The girls/non sporty lads where a no-no..They didn't want to run at all.

jester77 · 03-02-2014 01:35PM

maguic24 wrote: »

Did you go to school in Longford by any chance? I think I may have had the same guy. I hated PE but I loved Joe, what a legend. :P

Joe was the man, he trained the GAA when I was there. There were a lot of funny moments. I remember playing a game in Dublin, he had a decent suit on with a dirty pair of white runners. The lads on the other team started to take the piss out of his runners and he turned around grabbed his balls and told them they can suck on it. Didn't go down well!!

ivytwine · 03-02-2014 01:36PM

Hated it. I was rubbish any sport/game and every week, no matter what it was, the teacher had to take me aside and show me how to use a tennis racket or whatever.

I used to 'forget' my gear a lot...

Dyr · 03-02-2014 01:36PM

awec wrote: »

Best class of the week.

Apart from when you were forced to do the really crap stuff like badminton / tennis / basketball / athletics.

Football / rugby / swimming pool / gym most weeks.

Did your butler have to get into the pool as well?

TheBody · 03-02-2014 01:37PM

jester77 wrote: »

Joe was the man, he trained the GAA when I was there. There were a lot of funny moments. I remember playing a game in Dublin, he had a decent suit on with a dirty pair of white runners. The lads on the other team started to take the piss out of his runners and he turned around grabbed his balls and told them they can suck on it. Didn't go down well!!

I had that teacher too. He owned a Garden Centre when I was there. We used to call him Gun n Roses.

Did you enjoy PE at school?

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