Were you any good at PE in school?

circadian · 06-03-2015 10:49am

I get the feeling most posters are in agreement that it's a subject with great potential but poor execution.

The amount of posts that are "wasn't great at soccer/gaa/etc" but turn out to be good at something else is disheartening. Being good at a sport and enjoying it is great for the mind.
Not to mention the bullying that sometimes comes along with someone not being so good at something.

How many kids are still suffering from the failure of this particular curriculum?

efb · 06-03-2015 10:51am

Pherekydes wrote: »

Well, didn't you go to a fancy school?

We had to run around a field. I wasn't much into combat sports, like GAA or Soccer. :rolleyes: Running was what I was best at, and I wasn't much good at that. I was a scrawny wretch.

No it was a tech- but we had a nice gym

cloud493 · 06-03-2015 10:51am

Sure cross country was better than football or cricket. You could walk if you wanted, have a chat with people, no idiot team mates screaming at you cos you missed the ball in a pointless game.

KatW4 · 06-03-2015 10:55am

Hated PE so much in school. I hated getting changed for it because the snobby girls used to call me anorexic for being thin. I wasn't but it made me so self conscious.

As for the lessons, it was basketball, badminton, rounders or the bars/ropes/swings. I was okay at basketball. Our teacher loved her basketball team though and unless you were on it show wasn't too bothered with the rest of us.

By 5th year I had given it up for study class instead, thankfully!

Floppybits · 06-03-2015 11:01am

Loved PE. Could never understand why others didnt want to do PE. My school was quite good for PE always did different things including swimming and snorkeling in the local leisure centre.

Teyla Emmagan · 06-03-2015 12:01pm

PE? You mean hockey? Because it was either hockey or stuck on the sidelines as you were too useless to play hockey. The annoying thing was we had a gym full of great equipment, but no one was ever allowed near it. I think our PE teacher had just done the hockey certificate.

Larianne · 06-03-2015 12:09pm

Shenshen wrote: »

I can't begin to describe how much I hated, despised and loathed PE. It accounts for some of the very worst memories I have of school.

A number of sucessive PE teachers had succeeded in convincing me that I was utterly useless at any kind of sport or excercise - and stupidly, I kept believing them until rather recently.

Now it turns out that I'm in fact a very good swimmer and not too bad on a bicycle - thank you, PE, for making me dread and hate excercise for nearly all my life.

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

PE? You mean hockey? Because it was either hockey or stuck on the sidelines as you were too useless to play hockey. The annoying thing was we had a gym full of great equipment, but no one was ever allowed near it. I think our PE teacher had just done the hockey certificate.

Jaysis! Just goes to show why we have a childhood obesity problem.

Circuits would be a great class if there is a gym available.

Floppybits wrote: »

Loved PE. Could never understand why others didnt want to do PE. My school was quite good for PE always did different things including swimming and snorkeling in the local leisure centre.

Wow, that sounds amazing. What else did ye do?

mrkiscool2 · 06-03-2015 4:52pm

cloud493 wrote: »

Sure cross country was better than football or cricket. You could walk if you wanted, have a chat with people, no idiot team mates screaming at you cos you missed the ball in a pointless game.

It was probably pointless because you kept missing the ball, hard to score if one of your players keeps giving the ball away...

Vi Peterson · 06-03-2015 4:55pm

I was terrible. Now I am good at most sports, but at school they ONLY PE we ever had was GAA, which I was no good at. I used to beg my parents to write me a note to get me out of it. Also, the teachers used to appear more friendly to the students good at sports rather than actual school work.

Ruu · 06-03-2015 4:58pm

Rounders, indoor soccer, basketball, some running around the pitch. I loved handball! I wasn't much good at anything really. We went once a month to swim at a leisure center. Then sweaty and smelly for the rest of the day (covering yourself with Lynx!).

Miaireland · 06-03-2015 5:01pm

Hated PE with passion, had to do it up to Junior Cert, then in 4th year you could pick other options (like a history field) each week. In 5th and 6th year took LCVP instead.

Toots · 06-03-2015 5:04pm

When I was in primary school I kicked ass at PE, they used to call me the Bin Ball Bandit (dunno why, I never stole the binball). Secondary school was where it all changed. I was good at rounders, badminton and volleyball. Anything else I was a danger to myself and others. Gymnastics was a complete disaster, we were doing cartwheels, and the teacher was walking us through it. She was sort of holding our waists to help us get all the way over, and when it came to my turn, I got upside down, then wobbled a bit as I came down and managed to kick her right in the face. She was a bitch though, so I didn't feel overly guilty. I wasn't her favourite person before then, and afterwards I was terrified that I'd be her whipping boy, but it turned out great, cos she basically ignored me for my remaining 3 years in school!

RayM · 06-03-2015 5:22pm

I hated it. It was just an excuse for bullies to assault people without the Guards getting involved. It should be optional - and outside of school hours.

Toots · 06-03-2015 5:32pm

RayM wrote: »

I hated it. It was just an excuse for bullies to assault people without the Guards getting involved. It should be optional - and outside of school hours.

Especially dodgeball! My school was too cheap to spring for a couple of those cheapo footballs that would have been ideal for dodgeball. We had to use tennis balls. Destroyed with feckin bruises after that!

SPM1959 · 06-03-2015 6:04pm

Looking back, I'm annoyed that our PE teacher got paid for 'teaching' us. An absolute layabout that did no work and left us to play football for an hour.

metaoblivia · 06-03-2015 6:58pm

I wasn't great at PE. I was pretty far down at the bottom, but there was always some kid who was worse than me. Our PE mostly consisted of track and field, soccer, volleyball, kickball and basketball. One time, we did a few weeks of archery, and while I was really scared of it at the beginning, to everyone's surprise - especially my own - I ended up being the best in the class at it. The boys were upset that a girl outdid them. But my dad - who is excellent at darts (he had multiple dartboards in his office and man cave to practice on) - was very proud.

In high school, I took PE as a summer course, which meant for 6 weeks I was in PE for 6 hours a day. I went to high school in Florida and the summer I chose to fulfill my PE requirement was the summer a huge wildfire broke out nearby and lasted the entire duration of summer school. The air was filled with smoke, and it was deemed unsafe for us to use the outdoor track. So our teacher just dropped us off at the local bowling alley everyday and we ran amuck. We bowled, but we also ate a lot of concession food and played a lot of arcade games. That was the best PE class ever. Thank you, wildfires.

byhookorbycrook · 06-03-2015 7:27pm

I think people are thinking more in terms of sports they disliked rather than proper PE.

Mesrine65 · 06-03-2015 7:36pm

I liked PE, I started Judo classes at the age of 5 & progressed to boxing at 12.

Discovered alcohol in my mid teens & lapsed, but was always active.

cloud493 · 06-03-2015 7:50pm

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

I think people are thinking more in terms of sports they disliked rather than proper PE.

Well thats the way its taught sure.

SEPT 23 1989 · 06-03-2015 7:56pm

Football in the winter and hiding and smoking when spring arrived

catallus · 06-03-2015 7:58pm

I got a certificate in PE-ness.

Lia_lia · 06-03-2015 8:01pm

I was crap at football and soccer. Was okay at basketball. I much preferred all the "unconventional" sports like gymnastics, badminton, volleyball...

JaseBelleVie · 06-03-2015 8:17pm

Loved it. Any excuse to get out and run around and become a sweaty mess. Was part of the school GAA team, playing in the half-back line. Also dabbled in rugby. But I preferred football to any of it. It was just a simpler and easier to organise game. Again, I was a defender and I loved it.

It was a horror show for the kids who didn't enjoy it, I'm sure. But I personally loved it and I was that kid for whom the school PE class was (in my mind) the Olympics or the World Cup Final. So basically a little over-competitive bollocks who made other kids cry when I was taking things was too seriously.

Were you any good at PE in school?

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