Did you enjoy PE at school?

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No

Absolutely I was captain of everything each year and also house games captain from the equiv of Year 9 as I was so sporty. I was vice captain before that, a role they made up for me. Bloody loved it and could never understand those who swerved sports. We did lacrosse, netball, and swimming. gymnastics, tennis

No - and now I run Ultra Marathons!

No.

Having ambyopia (so no 3D vision), crap coordination and, it turned out years later, hip dysplasia, I was hopeless at everything.

Athletics when I was allowed to lean on a javelin for most of the lesson wasn't too bad.

What's not to enjoy about being bullied by the P.E teacher ( "for God's sake girl my disabled granny can move faster than you!!" "If you moved more you wouldn't be such a gormless lump" and other such delights), the body shaming in the showers by other pupils and the constant comparisons to my younger and very sporty sibling? I lived for days when I had P.E

^ Sarcasm in case nobody was aware. 😄

I loved it. It was the only GCSE I passed

Yes, I love team sports and couldn't understand those who wanted to swerve it-i was prob school team level but not really super good, just enthusiastic and enjoyed the sports. I think it's an important part of school life and education for fitness in the future. Everyone should be doing it and the provision should take account of different abilities and disabilities. I am firm with my children about not skipping (and one is not athletically gifted!). It's part of their education and frankly it's good for them to have subjects they aren't good at, just as it is good for the others to excel at a non academic subject.

Another “No”.
Once it was decided that I wasn’t good enough - and made clear to me - I was pretty much scarred for life, totally put off exercise.
Add to that a now-exH who laughed at me running & I was done with it.
Really wish I’d done something to take better care of my body.

No I hated it with an unrivalled passion.

The female teachers were vile bullies. I was very good at netball but because I was also quite fat they didn’t ever try to coach me in any way which destroyed my love of the sport and sport in general tbh.

One got removed from her job shortly after I left the school. She tried challenging it but it was a done deal. The other one got her nose broken once in a PE lesson when a girl a couple of years above me accidentally threw a rounders bat backwards and it smacked her square in the face. It genuinely was an accident but the girl was a legend in the school after that.

No, I am uncoordinated and unsporty, I hated it. Was bullied because of my ineptitude and weekly humiliation of being the last to be picked when choosing teams. Destroys your confidence and self esteem.
After leaving school I got into exercise dvds/videos, exercise classes and gym and started to enjoy it-need to restart! But definitely no team sports!

It was awful. Humiliating little pe knickers. Freezing most of the time too. Team sports were vile. Had there been more trampolining, aerobics, swimming I could have liked it.

Hated it because I'm not sporty. However, as a teenager I tried aerobics and cycling and even though they didn't stock for life, I realised exercise is not the same as sport and I'm very mildly active now.

I absolutely hated it. It was very, very badly taught, if you could call it teaching at all.

Team sports were a real nemesis of mine. It was drummed into us that if you couldn't play as part of a sports team then you would be useless in any work or office situation too.

Another thing - whoever thought that picking the two most sporty girls in the year and telling them to pick their team members from the rest of us was a great method of teaching?! One other girl and I were always last to be picked and the two captains would argue publicly about who would have which of us, and which of us was the worst.

You don't forget the feelings that causes.

Also, I agree that communal showers were horrendous. Having to strip naked in front of your whole year group to walk through them was mortifying for teenage girls. I was so relieved that by the time my own DDs were in secondary school they no longer seemed to be a thing.

We were also never given enough time to change properly back into school uniform at the end of each lesson. Sometimes barely a couple of minutes including the communal showers. If not ready then you would be turned out of the changing room into the main school corridors in just your pants and socks.

Apparently it was all character building, which I now see for the utter bollocks that it is. 😠

Dreadful. Put me off sport for decades.

Absolutely not. I was really self conscious of my body as a teen girl (duh!) and the communal changing rooms and COMMUNAL SHOWERS where the pe teacher would stand at one end to ensure you all went through it naked was just enough to make me loathe PE entirely.
I’m really active now but the teen humiliation hit hard.

Absolutely not. I was very over weight (mother was a feeder) and always picked last for group/team games. Had no co-ordination at all. As an adult though, loved the gym/swimming/workout classes/running.

I hated it. Hated. It.

I was not completely ‘unsporty’ or anything. I loved being active. We had mini tennis tournaments in our street. I walked absolutely everywhere. I went roller skating. My bicycle was practically part of me up into my mid teens. I mostly hated the team stuff at school. Hockey. Netball. Basketball. Volleyball. Just no. I liked running, but we didn’t do much of it. I quite liked long jump and high jump but hated being watched. If they’d just left me to it, I would have had a ball! I remember the teacher decided to try aerobics with us and I enjoyed that. But it was only about twice. The head of the PE Department was an absolute ogre and I had her for PE the whole way through school. I also had her for RE and she was ok for that. But stick a pair of those 1980s Adidas tracksuit bottoms on her and she morphed into a bloody sergeant major. I remember her making us play hockey in the snow in our tiny skirts and short sleeved polo shirts, while she swanned around in a sheepskin jacket. I’m still traumatised😅

I could have written the same, loved pe throughout school, in netball, hockey teams and x country . Hated the Showers! Remember dreading going to secondary because of the rumour mill of the showers where teachers inspected you whilst in there ( wasn't actually true) and also coming up with strange convuluted stories about periods to get out of them.
Also now have arthritic knees , can cycle and swim (slowly) but can't run.

O God yes, having to participate in team sports, and the genuine fury and exasperation of those in my team when I failed to catch a ball or whatever it was you were supposed to do.

Hated it. Hate team sports. I’d rather exercise alone, or go for a walk/hike. Female PE teachers were sadists.

No, because I wasn’t great at it (turns out you need to be able to see to catch, and then when I got glasses my concern was not to break them).

It was also a badly timetabled stressful lesson. Too much dashing about and hurried dressing. It would be better if state schools did the same as private and scheduled Wednesday afternoon for games.

they also didn’t time their sports well.netball and basketball were always in the wind and rain, whereas gymnastics was inside when the sun was shining.

No hated it at senior school, can't really remember it at junior school so obviously wasn't that bad.
All the being picked for teams, the worry about being last. To be honest l don't really remember much teaching , we were just told to go and play hockey or round the field 5 times Then the lovely communal showers, our teachers did come in abd check we actually showered. This was 45 years ago though.

Looking back, I would actually call my PE lessons school sponsored/approved humiliation and bullying.

No. I loathed it. I dreaded PE lessons which made me utterly miserable and hate myself for being uncoordinated, short sighted & crap at sport. Being forced to run around wearing next to nothing in the freezing cold & mud while being shouted at by bullying teachers made me absolutely loathe exercise for decades. It’s one of the main reasons I became clinically obese.

It was a bit mixed for me. I was rubbish at all of it. But I liked netball, though there was no opportunity to play any extra as I wasn't good enough to get on team. I thought lacrosse was a ridiculous sport, with someone hitting your stick with theirs really close to your head. No helmets or mouthguards back then. I hated the knickers we wore for athletics. It was a girls school, but no one had ever thought of what it was like to wear them when you had your period. One teacher opened the pool for me after school to swim, which was really lovely and made me think she didn't just care about the sporty kids.

It is interesting to see what has and hasn't changed. I wonder how much thought teachers give to the kids who aren't sporty or don't like sport. My DDs aren't great at sport. DD1's school groups them by ability, but then give the worst facilities and biggest groups to the least able. You wouldn't do that with a maths class, so I'm not sure why it's OK for PE. They also mix the best and worst groups at the end of term "for a fun session", which apparently neither group appreciates.

Primary school - yes.

Secondary school - not much. The non-competitive stuff was ok, but I could not be arsed with the competitive stuff, or running about a hockey field in the freezing cold. The girls who did like that were usually much taller than me and got far too excited by it all.

Hmmm. Not sure there's no humiliation in other classes tbh. I remember end of term exam rests being posted on boards. I remember being berated in maths class bc I just didn't get it. Also hated art class when I was routinely humiliated for complete lack of any ability. And even worse when art was added into other subjects randomly like history which I was great at...not so much when we had to do posters etc!

Basically you remember what you were bad at and what you were great at. And you always feel that everyone else noticed what you were rubbish at. It's probably worse when you're bad at something academic and deemed essential, eg when you can't get onto a vocational course at college bc you've failed your maths or English gcse.