Changing for PE

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Thread over on health on periods in primary aged girls made me think of this.

Do your children's schools make the older girls get changed for PE in the same place as the boys? If not, at what age do they separate them? So many of the girls are quite well developed by the time they're 10 or 11, I really don't think they should have to get changed in the same space. What does everyone think?

At our school when they are in infants they all get changed together. When they move to juniors the girls get changed in the reading corner with a partition across and the boys get changed in the classroom.

A question I've not yet had to deal with, but it won't be too long. I think it could be a problem with some childrn, but mainly those who are pretty silly anyway, who would probably tease girls who are on. Most I think are absorbed in getting ready and are unlikely to even look round.

Though I should add that when I was at primary school (in the 1980s) all of us did PE together, right up to 11, in nothing but our knickers. We weren't allowed to wear vests, much less shorts!

God that's shocking Cookey

Didn't seem anything odd at the time. I suppose some of us girls were developing around that age, but I wasn't aware of anything. It was only once I got to senior school, and got a bi more aware ofthings, that I thought about it.