The p.e. Questionnaire

[DonaldStott]

Questionnaire sent home from dd's school today about p.e. she is 7.

They want you to fill it out with your kids.

Our dd is by no means sedentary. Very healthy. Eats healthily, plenty of activities. Enjoys scooting, walks at least nearly 2 miles on walk home from school. Plenty of friends to play with in park, long walks at the weekend. Swimming couple of times a week etc., but detests p.e.in school with a passion.

The questions are, do you do enough physical activities? Are you a leader?. What activities do you do outside of school? Do you enjoy p.e.?, do you think you are good at p.e.?

There are about 10 questions.

Every answer is designed to make her feel like a failure.

I don't want to fill it in with her.

She is a sensitive soul. Very kind, caring, more interested what's on the inside than what's outside.

Watches out for kids who are on their own on the playground and looks after them.

She has bcome a vegetarian as she thinks its mean to eat things that have parents

P.e.is one aspect of things that she doesn't excel at, and if it was wiped it out, she wouldn't be arsed.

I know that filling this questionnaire out with her, would just highlight shortcomings in this area, and upset her, when she has so much more to offer.

Aibu to ignore it? They keep emailing it for us to fill out.

[ShoeEatingMonster]

This will almost certainly be linked to the school's sports funding. Schools have to prove the impact of how they've spent the money.
Take it as an opportunity to tell school her feelings. Especially with lunch time activities which if it's anything like my school, is football, football and more football. There's nothing for anyone else.

[abbsisspartacus]

My daughter is crap at pe always has been but she enjoyed it and was enthusiastic so I taught her being bad at something you enjoy is no bad thing

[WhooooAmI24601]

DS1 has recently had a questionnaire from school regarding physical activity and exercise. He filled it in himself (he's 11) and handed it to me to look over. It asks for his interests and hobbies, so he'd written "Xbox, teasing my brother, teasing the dog, eating sweets" (I think perhaps he didn't take it seriously). I pointed out that nowhere on it did he mention the rugby, judo, swimming, scouts, running club, horse riding and Beaver-helping he also does each week. He went "yeah, but those things aren't important, the things I love are important and I love sweets". I let him send it in; he's healthy and happy, and if school don't see that I'm ok with it.

I would go through it with her but use it as an excuse to praise all of her positive attributes. Not everyone wants to be an athlete, not everyone leads and not everyone loves p.e; you can use this to teach her that she's perfect just as she is.

[CancellyMcChequeface]

Off-topic, but the font they used for that questionnaire is really, really weird. The spacing seems completely wrong.

I think that when you and DD fill out the questionnaire, you could be honest about her not liking PE, and not liking competitive sport, if that's the case -but also stress that she does enjoy walking, scooting and swimming! The questions seem set up to focus on particular kinds of physical activity - sports clubs in and out of school, and that might well be what they're looking for when they analyse the results, but that doesn't mean your DD can't be positive about the activities she likes, too! It might feel less like highlighting her shortcomings, then.