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Original poster

To not want my DD doing PE in torrential rain!

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TheoriginalLEM · 19/09/2015 16:13

DD is in year 6 and yesterday they did PE in the rain. Now i have no problem with her doing PE in the rain but this was ridiculous. She had a waterproof coat on (not a pe coat, big heavy coat) which was soaked through and i could wring her PE kit out that she had to bring home to be washed because it was so wet!

Now she is on the sofa with a stinking cold - now i know she didn't get the cold because of the rain but she started sniffling last night so i am pretty sure it hasn't helped.

Her teacher (who thankfully she only has for PE) made a big thing of telling them they would do PE in all weathers but this was ridiculous.

I got caught out in it yesterday too, but i was able to come home and have a warm shower straight away and dry off, not sit in my fucking wet vest and pants.

No point in complaining teacher is an arrogant twat so ranting on here instead.

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TheFairyCaravan · 19/09/2015 16:17

You don't catch a cold from being out in the rain. A cold is a virus.

saltlakecity · 19/09/2015 16:18

It's just rain and it will have no impact on a cold. Kids (and adults) need to toughen up. Life is hard and there are million things harder than keeping fit in the rain. I run in all weathers. So do millions of others. Many even work outdoors in all weathers. We can't stop everything in this country because of rain otherwise how often will PE be cancelled in a year?

DonkeyOaty · 19/09/2015 16:19

Is just rain.

Chin up.

usual · 19/09/2015 16:21

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definiteissues · 19/09/2015 16:21

It is just rain. Get over yourself

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TheoriginalLEM · 19/09/2015 16:21

Did you read my post TFC?

And no, you can't get a cold because of being cold but it DOES weaken the immune system. I daresay she would have been poorly anyway, but i'll just tell her to toughen up.

I also work outside in all weathers sometimes - in appropriate clothing, doing something essential - runnig round the playground a few times doesn't count and can be done other times. The hall was available for them to go indoors.

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TheFairyCaravan · 19/09/2015 16:21

I run in all weathers

So does DS1. He runs when there's snow on the ground and when it's falling.

TheFairyCaravan · 19/09/2015 16:22

I did read your post, yes. I think YABU and precious.

JonSnowKnowsNowt · 19/09/2015 16:23

tbh I am constantly amazed at what an absolute fuss people make about rain. I'd be pleased for my DC to do PE in the rain, instead of watching videos in the hall on wet weather days. It's fun getting absolutely sopping, as long as they get warm and dry afterwards.

steppemum · 19/09/2015 16:23

dd did football training in the rain on wed pm. It is school afterschool club. She had her football kit with her, but in her pe kit she had a long tracksuit and she had a coat.

She wore neither, so she did it in T shirt and shorts and school sweatshirt. Like you I could have wrung out the sweatshirt.

It was chucking it down as they started and I was really cross with the coach that he didn't ask them if they had coats or long tracksuit to put on, he just took them out in the rain, where they froze.

She came home and got straight into a warm shower and was cold and shivery all evening, had an early night, then was off school on Thursday, woke up with the shivers and feeling very poorly.

YANBU. There is a limit. If they had a proper change of clothes and they were all warm and dry within 10 minutes of coming in I would be more sympathetic.

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TheoriginalLEM · 19/09/2015 16:24

pass me a grip then!!

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Cabrinha · 19/09/2015 16:24

My daughter loves rain.
My first response to drenched kit would have been to say how cool it was that they got to go play in it!
By Y6, I'd expect her to have the nouse to take the wet vest off - though perhaps she's developing breasts.
Make sure you put a spare set of undies into her kit bag! And maybe a light weight but waterproof kagoul?

goawayalready · 19/09/2015 16:25

the op already said she knew it didnt cause the cold ffs

that wasn't just a shower that was too much its ok getting a bit damp but you shouldn't soak through a thick coat in a pe lesson

has common sense gone out the window

what is wrong with indoor pe

why in primary school when lessons are more flexible did they not wait for the rain to pass

at my sons school the class teacher does the pe lesson 99% of the time so they have no issues waiting for the rain to stop

MrsPnut · 19/09/2015 16:26

YABU children need to do PE no matter the weather and if it's outside then it's outside.

DD plays rugby all winter, it's only cancelled if the ground is so frozen that it is liable to cause an injury.

5madthings · 19/09/2015 16:26

Actually if it was rain like we had yesterday then Yanbu, I am a dress appropriately for the weather and suck it up person and make my kids do the same. But yesterday was horrendous, even with waterproofs etc on.

At least if you go for a run you can come home, have a shower and warm up, get a warm drink etc and wrap at.

Assuming the kids just had to get back into school uniform, no towel or shower? No chance to dry and warm up properly.

HamaTime · 19/09/2015 16:27

Lots of people run/play sport in all weathers. They usually have the chance to have a warm shower afterwards, or at least a good dry with a towel before changing into dry clothes. Maybe other schools are different but at ours if you got soaked during PE then you would stay damp all day.

If it's wet enough to wet your underwear, then it's too wet for primary PE imo.

usual · 19/09/2015 16:28

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steppemum · 19/09/2015 16:28

I don't usually have a problem with the rain, but it was really chucking it down, for the whole hour. Beyond normal, and I suspect it was the same for OP.

There is also now strong evidence that being cold for an extended period DOES have an effect on having a cold. The link is thought to be that it lowers the immune system, allowing one of the many cold viruses we have been exposed to to get a grip and make you ill.

goodasitgets · 19/09/2015 16:28

I guess maybe if it's bad in future pop some spare underwear in so she can get changed?
Otherwise I can't see the issue, I regularly get soaked in the rain to my underwear and then am not home for hours

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TheoriginalLEM · 19/09/2015 16:29

if it was just rain id be fine with it, but rain to the point that it went through a thick coat, t-shirt and vest and she then had to sit in the wet vest until the end of school before she could come home and get changed was my problem.

I am probably being a BIT precious but i honestly don't see the point of getting them soaking wet when there was room to do the same activity inside.

She doesn't need to toughen up, she didn't complain at all but she said she felt rotten.

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VulcanWoman · 19/09/2015 16:32

That would have made the PE lesson more interesting in my day, a good laugh because it was so ridiculous.

saltlakecity · 19/09/2015 16:32

An extended period does not mean a normal length PE lesson. It will not have weakened a normal childs immune system. Many schools don't have a big enough hall to do PE inside. Even if they do have a hall it could have been used for all sorts of things. PE in lots of schools can't be rearranged. Sounds like the case in the op's school too if the teacher only teaches PE. They'll probably buy in that time. Our primary school does. It's only rain. Life goes on.

VikingVolva · 19/09/2015 16:33

She shouldn't have been doing PE in a big heavy coat.

Surely she should change out of PE kit into uniform afterward, and even damp knickers won't be that morale sapping (to the extent of it acutely affecting her immune system).

You might want to add a cagoule or one of those hitech fabric tracksuits to her PE kit, if you think either of those would help. Plus a microfibre towel.

And, even though your DD appears rather taciturn about her school day, surely common sense tells you there is more to a PE lesson than 'running round the playground a few times'

saltlakecity · 19/09/2015 16:33

Why on earth didn't she take the vest off afterwards?