Showers after PE

I hated this at my school, over twenty years ago now, but it was torture. I was very well developed at age 11, had started periods, had big boobs, and a lot of the girls hadn't.

I got bullied because of it and absolutely hated having a shower :(

DS uses the showers after Rugby - I just wish he'd take his clothes off and not get in the car steaming and dripping

normal PE - nope they never use them

showers when I was at school were the haunt of a predatory gay PE teacher so best avoided

kids are perfectly happy using the communal changing rooms at the gym - but timing are relaxed there

My kids don't get a shower after PE but I wish they did. After rugby and cross country, they're caked in mud, then put uniform back on and I end up having to wash everything overnight. They say there's just no time.

DS1 was told to take swimming trunks in for showering after sport. However, I believe that showers actually don't happen apart from a "Trinity Shower" which, i am told, consists of spraying yourself liberally with Lynx .

Muddy sports are done at the end of the day.

We had communal showers and hated it.
It put many of us off PE, we'd dread it all day.
We'd get in to trouble for forging note of our parents excusing us from showers.
When they did the register at the start of PE, u used to have to reply "yes miss, shower note" then she'd collect the notes at the end.
All the bullies would then tease u all wk about your periods. But having a note was still better than running the naked gauntlet.
We'd quickly splash water out ourselves as the teacher waited at the end to check your bodies to see if they were wet, if not, they'd send u back through.

Where did you attend high school?

OP Sorry because I have not got much time so I have not read past your post.

DD1(year 7) sais that they do not take showers after PE and it baffled me a bit. 20 odd years ago, when I was in secondary school we had showers after PE and we all had our own cubicle with curtains and there was no adult supervising us. I am to hear that there are still places where they would ask the girls to use a communal shower. Is it really still like that?

I found it a misery when I was at school. If you are painfully shy, this can be awful. I can't believe things haven't moved on in 20 years! [shocked]

Having to have communal showers at our secondary school made many of us dread PE.

As an adult, I have no qualms about being naked in changing rooms but at secondary age, when bodies develop at different times and girls are less secure about managing their periods, I hated it.

After the age of 16, it wasn't an issue for me, but before then, awful!

We were forced to have communal showers after p.e with the teachers stood watching. I was so traumatised by having to do this every week that as an adult I wont get changed in front of other people in any communal changing rooms.this practice has damaged me for life and I wont be allowing my son to go through the same trauma when he starts secondry school next year.

There are individual shower cubicles at the school I work in - but the only people to use them are any staff who use the school gym before school, or staff who cycle in!
The pupils prefer copious amounts of lynx or similar instead...

This is such a British hang up; we showered communally in high school en masse when I was aged 12+, it wasn't a big deal. IME, even adults in Britain won't change and shower in same sex situations -- unless they are on a sports team.

It's so refreshing to go to gyms abroad and everybody lets it all hang out post work out -- and at least they don't leave the gym rank and sweaty!

We had communal showers at my school and I really loved it. I loved getting clean and having endless hot water. (Probably because we had no central heating at home, hot water was limited, and we only had one bathroom - family of 7 people.)

But we also had somewhere we could hang a towel up to dry as well. In most schools now they have to carry everything in their bag and a soggy towel would be pretty grim in there.

ds1 and ds2 never shower at their school: there just isn't time. I presume the facilies are there, but they've never mentioned it. There's no requirement to bring towels as games kit. Sometimes they arrive home quite muddy (yuck), but they shower at home every day anyway and we have two sets of uniform, so that gets washed after PE days as well as the PE kit.

Oh i assumed complexnumber meant "practice" as in, not letting anyone else tell them what to do with their bodies, especially not saying yes to stripping off when they are not comfortable.

Our kids are taught PSE, shouldn't they also be encouraged to practice what they are taught?

I teach at a secondary school and we have curtains and individual cubicles

We had showers at school (cubicles but no curtains, I think) but were not allowed to use them after lessons as would cut into lesson time. Only teams playing matches were allowed to shower afterwards - no idea if they did or not!

I used to teach PE (hundreds of years ago) and at all the schools I taught at I made showers available to those who wanted one.

In reality, no one showered as it cuts too much into lesson time and the showers were used generally as a storage area.
I got moaned at by senior staff occasionally but could justify it by stating I couldn't force a child into having respect for their bodies but only encourage it.

There are showers at my children's comprehensive, they have never used them or seen anyone else use them . The school had a complete new build a couple of years ago. The new building also has showers despite the fact they are never used. I can only deduce that providing them is a requirement.