Too cold for six years olds to be outside for PE for 45 minutes?

[Married2aWelshman]

I'm all for getting the kids outside, particularly mine, but it was 0 degrees in London today and my DD1 told me that they did PE outside and they were all freezing in their tracksuit bottoms and school t shirts, also allowed school cardigans but that's it. No gloves, majority of them already coughing and spluttering as is the January norm. Some of the, crying. It's not like they were playing rugby and sweating their arses off. AIBU to have a word with the teacher in the morning?

People fihe different temperatures cold. I was always a cold person and from wgat you describe it eould have caused me physical pain. Others may be fine.

They should gave had the option of layers - they could take them off they get too hot.

I know every child is different our school requires extra pe kit during winter - bottoms and sweater so they can take them out. My Dd went out for pe today but my Dd loves it she plays football multiple times a week in this. I do honestly believe it's good for you as this winter she has not picked up a single bug or virus. Also my Dd is usually the one refusing to put any extra layers on will generally go out in shorts and short tee but even she wore her bottoms and jumper today!!

It's fine to be outdoors. But not in a tee shirt and cardy and no gloves in these temps imo. I'd rather they went out in more layers/gloves and then removed layers if they were too warm, then to go out in an insufficient outfit.
If I go for a walk in this I start off with running leggings, a running top and a fleece along with gloves and hat. I do end up taking off the gloves, the hat and sometimes the fleece as I warm up, but I'd not want to start out in a short sleeved tee shirt and a cardy.

It is great to be out when it is this cold. Gets their metabolisms really going.
Fresh air is good for everyone.

I've just come in from bootcamp. It's -1 here and I wore skins, running vest, light base layer, light down jacket, buff and hat, two pairs of gloves, socks, trainers. I warmed up with all of that lot on plus my long down coat. I had hot water in my drinks bottle. We were moving and working pretty hard for an hour.

I think outdoor PE is fine, but they need a sweatshirt over the t shirt, plus gloves and possibly a hat IMO. I don't believe 6 yr olds would be moving flat out for the whole time - there'd be quite a bit of standing about receiving instructions and they need to be warm to concentrate properly.

My dd nearly 6 came home from school today without her cardigan, she said it was boiling in school and took it off.

when they do P.E they don't have track suits, they have football kit material school too and shirts and that's it.
Nobody has complained.

I've walked past her school at lunchtime and lots of children aren't even wearing coats.
We're in the very cold north west.

Elderly frail people are at risk from the cold weather.
Healthy children who have to do PE and run about in the playground, who then go home to overheated centrally heated houses really, really aren't at risk of anything. Feeling cold for a while is not an illness ffs and doesn't warrant the level of mollycoddling on here.

No gloves Oh give up

Should say top and shorts damn autocorrect :)

What thebaldsoprano said!

My kids go on dog walks in the cold but wrapped up properly. I've been freezing all day in house with heating on. My kids are not 'special snowflakes' but I'd be annoyed if they were out in freezing weather not properly wrapped up. Agree with pp who said that "we did it in my day" is quite irrelevant. We used to send kids up chimneys - things change!

Oh for goodness sake. It's P.E. for 45 minutes, I really don't know what people think will happen to their little darlings if they are not swaddled in 52 layers of clothing and only aloud out when it's about 10

Oh good god, ALLOWED out when it's above 10 degrees.

They'll be cold and uncomfortable- why would I want that? Like pp said its not endurance exercise!

Back in the stone age, I was out playing hockey in weather like today, in nothing more substantial than a short skirt, polo shirt, knee high socks and thin jumper. I'm still here to tell the tale.

-2, up here today, with windchill of -6 and, tbh, so long as you were moving, it was OK. No ice and the air was quite dry, so it felt better than the milder but foggy days we had, midweek, which were truly horrid to be out in.

Kids moaning about having to do PE? Shock horror!

YANBU. I was walking around in London today, and despite having several layers my arms and legs were constantly cold, and my face was bloody freezing. It's ridiculous having the children outside with only one layer on their arms and legs and no gloves. I bet the PE teacher was wrapped up warm.

So patronising. It's bloody sub zero temperature and kids are prancing around without coats on prancing around doing PE. Bring it indoors or skip it. Forcing kids to do PE in the freezing cold will not make them love sport. They will come to dread it, like many of us did who were forced to do the same thing.

They go out in cold weather at my DCs school but we are told to make sure they have a warmer outdoor kit - so joggers and a long sleeved top - DD2 has a hoodie -so she can put her hands in her pockets. She also does cross country every week ...which is 45 mins outside after school - and she usually does that in gym shorts all year round.

She is also a coat refuser - and has been for years. And says she doesn't need a hat and gloves (although I make her take them - I know she doesn't wear them...) I think children don't feel the cold the same...
DD1 used to come out of school in the snow wearing a polo shirt and carrying her coat and jumper ...it is only in the last 6 months or so (and she is nearly 16) that she has started feeling the cold and wanting to wear a coat etc...she now wears multiple layers and has thermal underwear ...sure when she gets a bit older and starts going round town on a Friday/Saturday night she revert to wearing next to nothing again...

I'd also hazard a guess same people shouting snowflake would be outraged at this post for example "Aibu to think a child in dd class should not have come without a coat today"? Dinner is 1 hour people wouldn't ever send kids without gloves, hat and coat in this weather!

Are elite athletes doing the Great North Run or the London Marathon in gloves, sleeves, long socks and headbands special snowflakes? Or are they people who sensibly choose to dress appropriately for their bodies and the weather conditions?

I went for a run in London today. I wore running tights, a vest under a windproof jacket, gloves and a head band to cover my ears. When I'd been running for about 10 minutes I took the jacket off and tied it round my waist but I left the rest of it on because it was bloody cold even though I was moving my arse, as some dolt upthread charmingly put it.

It's not a question of getting your daughter to move her arse more. She's in a PE lesson. She does what the teacher tells her. I can't be the only one who has stood on a hockey field shivering in a t shirt and a miniskirt while watching the teacher's pets endlessly demonstrating how to bully off.

That attitude is what puts people off exercise in the outdoors.

YABU. I know I was older at sec school but we were forced to play hockey in our short PE skirts with ice on the pitch.
Blue legs were the norm. As were frozen hands. My home had no central heating and my bedroom windows had ice on the inside every morning in winter.

KIds soon warm up if they run around enough.

My ds (8) did 2 hours of football this afternoon at school (and quite a lot of the boys stayed another hour for rugby after school too), but they were wearing skins and thick rugby tops with tracksuits over the top, hats and gloves! They also did a big warm up! I have no problem with dc doing games outside in this weather, but they should be properly dressed for the weather. I have a very clear memory of going out in this sort of weather to play hockey in a flipping tiny school PE skirt and my legs turning blue!

Ha! Cross posts Polly!

Prolly he's 6 completely different!