Mixed Sex changing for PE

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I have googled and not found a definitive answer.

Are there rules on this please. My daughter is in year 3 and says she has to change in the same classroom as the boys.

The reason I feel odd about it is not because I believe any of the boys pose and risk or danger, but over the next year or 2 she will start to reach puberty and maybe feel a little self conscious.

Much easier for girls than boys. Slip shorts on before removing skirt and wear polo top so no need to change it.

I thought all females knew that?

In the next year or two they won't be changing together. Separate changing by year 5 in my experience.
Earlier if needed.

We all changed in the same room right up till year six when I was a kid. I was the only girl to have started my period during primary school, I was the only one to alstart developing and it was mortifying.

I’d say from juniors is probably a good idea.

Bump for the morning crowd.

I'm amazed there are no laws/guidelines.

My dd is also year 3 and this is the norm in her school. She already has little buds so I think she will be an early developer like I was so I don't know how I will feel when that happens.

Ds went to the same school and I'm pretty sure in year 6 in particular they separated for changing.

DS is just in Y5. Boys get changed in the classroom, girls in the cloakroom.

This is the norm in most classrooms at that age. Changes by year 5.

Boys in cloakroom girls in classroom from year 5 in my DCs school. Most girls started wearing crop tops under their polo shirts by then - polo shirts were not allowed for PE, they had to change into tee shirts.

Shorts under skirt doesn't work if they wear either trousers or tights, which most did in winter. They get adept at ducking behind tables, chairs, coatracks whatever to get a bit more privacy.

Mine didn't separate until Y6!

Well I suppose tights come off then shorts go on. DD was a confirmed trouser wearer.

It never occurred to me as I went to an all girls primary school.

It want until DD made such a fuss to buy crop tops that I though about it and asked.

She is in a class of 38! You would think that it would be easier to separate

Dd and some friends were allowed to change in the loo

That may well have been in year 5/6 though when they had started developing

When i was at junior school many years ago we did pe in just pants

One girl was an early developmer and it was very very embarrassing for her until her mum realised and stepped in

In hindsight ive no idea what the bloody school was thinking...obviously girls shouldn't be doing topless pe once they are old enough!

*wasn't

My girls changed in classroom for the whole of primary school. It was a very small school and they just didn't have anywhere else to go. I really simple and cheap solution to this would be to just but a curtain rail down the middle of the classroom with a curtain that can be pulled across when needed.

I started my period in year 3. I had boobs and wore a bra. I had mixed sex changing, in an open plan classroom where 2 other classes could see as well. I had hoped the world has moved on a bit in the 30 or so years it's been. Seems like it hasn't.

Wow lego that's early, I'm pretty sure dd will be young. I was 10 but in year 6.

This was 1988 and the toilets didn't have sanitary disposal bins which was awful but dd is well clued up on periods at 7.5 and knows what to do.

In her school they cannot wear a polo for P.E, they have a separate kit. She is already self conscious of her breast buds and most of her friends are like little dots so she stands out.

I don’t understand year 3 etc as I went to school in Scotland but I remember changing in class until primary 5 then the girls used the loo’s.

Yes this is standard now and I know one mum in Y5 asked if her DD could get changed in the toilets and the teacher said no as there were no SEN and that the girls need to stop being so silly

Separated only at Y6 here. There's a fashion for crop tops even in Y3s here too, and DD was asked by a boy why she didn't wear one, because she ought to cover up!

At our local primaries the children get changd in their classroom all together. Most girls had cycle shorts under their dresses/skirts and they could ask to change in the toilets if they felt they needed to.

At DDs' primary it was mixed at y3, and definitely separated by y5. The teachers use their judgement when to separate.

Standard for year 3, at my school they separate from year 4 onwards.

School that separate, where do they separate to?

My school is two form entry, so either girls in one classroom, boys in the other, if we want to keep them contained (!) or they go in the Junior changing rooms.