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Did you enjoy PE at school?

c68zapdsm5i1ru

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?

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maguic24

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!!

Hilarious!! I did PE up to Leaving Cert just so I could have the bants with Joe!! I had him for Geography up to J.C. All I can remember is 'Right ye, get yer bag and baggage and get out'. :P What a man, ha!

anncoates

TheBody wrote: »

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

:pac:

The PE teacher in our school once got 'accidentally' locked in a store cupboard when he was getting stuff out for the class and he left the key in the lock.

c68zapdsm5i1ru

Does anyone remember how PE teachers would pick the two sportiest pupils and tell them to select their teams?

Legs.Eleven

I "bounced" (:cool:) almost every single PE class in secondary school. I fcuking hated it. I was terminally lazy back then, thought my arse was fat and my PE gear wasn't cool enough (it wasn't). Jaysus the torment of Friday afternoons. I used to sit in a field and smoke with all the other lazy girls until we had the option of doing computers in 5th year.

Candy_Girl

I hated it, but then again I was a moody teenager who hated everything ....total opposite now I love any activity that keeps me fit

maguic24

TheBody wrote: »

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

Yeah my mam told me that was what they used to call him. He retired the year I graduated.

captain caveman

PE was ok for us... We'd do it with another class out of the year, and usually given 3 options, football, and two others.

Most of the lads would play football, while the girls would play badminton or hockey or something else.

There were a load of "superstar" footballers in our class though, you'd swear it was the FA cup final... Cue crunching tackles and roaring at you if you misplaced a pass.

When you got sick of Roy of the Rovers and his mates, you could go and play badminton with the girls... win win!

sea_monkey

I enjoyed it because i liked playing football.

looking back i think PE should be done in a more general manner.
Stretches and strength training at a general level instead of just aimed at being fun for an hour.

We only did it for the first 2 years of secondary school then it got cancelled for our class, no idea why.

dyeti

I hated it. I wanted to like it, but unfortunately all we did was play soccer with teams selected by ultra-GAA heads. If you weren't a sporty jock (like myself) you were picked last and even when you did play you were basically invisible. My PE teacher was also a butch lesbian who hated me and openly called me a twat.

In fairness though she did catch me smoking a fag in the bathroom during a PE class! Apart from that though I wasn't THAT bad...

kfallon

Depended on what we were doing, we prob covered about 7 or 8 sports during the year doing them for a month each.

Football, Gaelic Football, Tennis, Badminton were all enjoyable.

Road Running, Rugby, Gymnastics.....get ta fúck, load of me hoop!

gobnaitolunacy

No.
Off out in all fcuking weathers in a sh*t tracksuit bought by your mum playing nothing only football day after day.
No fcuking variety at all, used doss it for a finish.

OneArt

I wasn't exactly sporty as a teenager, but I loved Taekwondo and swimming so I got my own exercise. I f*cking hated school in general and spending two unnecessary classes was horrible, especially when our lazy teacher just said, "Oh, go play football". I hate football.

By fourth year I just skipped it completely and went to study. Worked out for the best.

anncoates

dyeti wrote: »

My PE teacher was also a butch lesbian who hated me and openly called me a twat.

Thought she would have been fond of twats?

maguic24

OneArt wrote: »

I wasn't exactly sporty as a teenager, but I loved Taekwondo and swimming so I got my own exercise. I f*cking hated school in general and spending two unnecessary classes was horrible, especially when our lazy teacher just said, "Oh, go play football". I hate football.

By fourth year I just skipped it completely and went to study. Worked out for the best.

Is that you, me?

Stepping Stone

I hated it. We had 'structure': basketball, gymnastics, badminton, volleyball, hockey and football. It always descended into football. 90% of the class had no interest. Our PE teacher was a bitch and used to criticise us to everyone. Principal eventually intervened and asked us what the problem was. Solution? Running and football skills while the beast screamed 'play up'.

The other PE teacher actually stuck to the schedule, if the class got bored he did really fun stuff like dancing. They went on hikes, we got to go to the football field. Our teacher was so lazy that she would drive while we ran there, shouting abuse all the way. I got stuck with that wagon for six long years. If you weren't a footballer (I am from Kerry), you were nothing in her eyes. Things like swimming, athletics, tennis, rowing, karate, etc didn't count as sport in her eyes. Can't say it did anything for our confidence when it came to sport.

Meangadh

I loved it but it definitely could have been better, looking back- we mostly played unihoc and rounders. I played camogie anyway so I enjoyed those activities, although to be be fair any time we did basketball I had the craic because of how $hite I was at it!

There should have been far more emphasis on improving overall fitness, nutrition, life long commitment to staying in shape etc. In fairness there has been huge improvements in the teaching of PE in recent years and a lot of schools have top class gyms and much more varied programmes.

donegal_man

First two years it was great, teacher who actually trained us so we did circuits, tennis and of course football then he left. His replacement was obsessed with stamina and 'healthy competition, it builds character' so all we did was road running and play football with the winning team getting to use the hot showers.

mdwexford

Lol at dancing in PE.

WoollyRedHat

There wasn't enough variance a lot of the time, and if it had been more structured, I would of enjoyed it more.

Was glad that I got to continue it though because I did Ordinary Maths.

The showers however were horrible and what's more, we were made take them. Awful.

[Deleted User]

I liked PE. Our teacher liked to mix it up a bit. We did a lot of badminton which I loved. And volleyball. She tended to stay away from the usual sports like football and basketball because whoever was interested in them just played them anyway.

She brought us surfing and swimming. And did a lot of mountain climbing. Gymnastics also. She always tried to get everyone to find a sport they enjoyed. Went to an all girls school btw.

Aglomerado

Hated it. I went to a co-ed school so we were all doing PE together, moments like feeling self conscious because boobs were jiggling going over the vaulting horse with all the lads looking on.

"Forgot" my kit almost every week for years. The PE teacher made me do lines, "I must not forget my kit"

then I could do my homework in the gym.

I never minded exercise, I did loads after school and was quite fit, but had confidence issues in school - not helped by always being picked last for teams.

maguic24

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

There wasn't enough variance a lot of the time, and if it had been more structured, I would of enjoyed it more.

Was glad that I got to continue it though because I did Ordinary Maths.

The showers however were horrible and what's more, we were made take them. Awful.

I don't think anyone in our school took a shower after training, ever! Ugh! We just did the bottle of deodorant thing afterwards, how rank is that?

Meangadh

mdwexford wrote: »

Lol at dancing in PE.

Oh God, the dancing we had to do in Primary school PE was the stuff of nightmares. I don't mind a bit of céilí/Irish dancing (nearly every Irish person does a stint of it at some stage) but I'm talking these cringey dances that your teacher would have learned in Mary I in the 60s and were supposed to be for "co-ordination" and "rhythm" but beyond 8 years of age (at a push) just made you want to sit in a corner and rock back and forth till it was all over.

Shudder.

arybvtcw0eolkf

I went to the comp in Ballymun, nearest thing we got to PE was organised after school fights..

Earthhorse

We didn't have a PE teacher in my school. Posh gits.

Aphex

Yeah, I loved it. The best was when we'd play soccer. Every so often all the male teachers would group up and play against us. Most of them were in their late fifties / early sixties, but they sure knew how to play.
Great times.

That was Colaiste Eoin in Finglas if anyone that went there remembers.

Dyr

Ansley Easy Trait wrote: »

I went to the comp in Ballymun, nearest thing we got to PE was organised after school fights..

I went to the comp after I bailed out on the anti-christian brothers school, the PE class in the comp was alright, just kicking a ball around. Still had the odd scrap on the hill though

RandomName2

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

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

whats not to like?

I found that that was the way in primary school (apart from 'organised dancing' which was a nightmare).

Secondary school it was after school ended; thereby adding to the school day. Also school had an awful rugby ethos (they were obsessed with it but always lost... badly). Just skipped wherever and whenever possible.

[Deleted User]

mdwexford wrote: »

Lol at dancing in PE.

Dance was a GCSE subject in our school, if you chose it as an option. You could have also chosen drama or music. Our stage productions would impress Andrew Lloyd-Webber.

School has since closed as is now a sixth form college.

WoollyRedHat

maguic24 wrote: »

I don't think anyone in our school took a shower after training, ever! Ugh! We just did the bottle of deodorant thing afterwards, how rank is that?

Trust me, if you saw the showers we had to use, you would of been glad of a bit of deodrant and off to class with ya.