things you were crap at in school

[Blandmum]

PE
Art
Needlework
French, Welsh and Spanish

that was the case at our school too flame - wonder why?

PE
Art
Drama
Needlework
Physics

Seems like I am in good company though!

I was quite good at everything at school - it was my behaviour that was the problem

I loved PE and History though

PE
lol at Donkey's school report.

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I was always the worst at PE. Really beyond belief worst.

Were you always the last picked for team games? I was! The girls used to moan, 'Do we have to have her, Miss? We had her last time'

Put backbone in me, not!

oh, martianbishop, how awful!

mine were

games
music

unfortunately I was at a very musical school, ended up just miming singing in assembly because it was too embarassing that I couldnt sing in tune (didnt even know what it meant, actually, but thats what the others told me!)

Art and Domestic Science. We were meant to do one or the other by about the 4th year, but I was so crap at both that neither teacher wanted me . I wasn't that sad actually, it meant I got a double free period instead and I'd go to the library and write to my penfriends .

sewing and bunking off. Nearly always got caught

PE. "laligo needs to work on her team spirit" hahaha instead i started trombone lessons and got the tutor to schedule them right in the middle of PE. no one cared, i bet it was a relief without me. i was also always in the last few to be picked along with whoever was myopic, wearing a cast, etc.

that team-picking thing though - what were schools thinking??? SO cruel! does it still happen?

"team spirit" - that was my least favourite phrase at school!

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cross-country was my least-hated PE activity - no team spirit required!

Art was my worst! I tried really hard, but I still failed the exam at the end of yr3

Yesterday I supported in an art lesson at school, and came home and got the boys' paints out .. and I could do it! [It was great fun, and very relaxing.] Because someone had actually demonstrated the techniques, and given some advice and instruction; rather than just saying "Get the paints out and paint something!"

I was crap at quite a few things. Most notably:-

PE
Maths- YUK
Physics - DOUBLE YUK
Needlework

But I loved

Art
Latin

There seems to be a bit of a theme here. WHy did/do so many people hate PE, Maths/Science, Art etc?

JanH - how can you remember your scores? Do you still have your school reports?

Physics and maths - but esp. physics. They might as well have taught me it Russian for all it meant.

PE and French. I wasn't good at art, but enjoyed it (managed a C at O level) Loved science and maths! dh went to a school that had completly seperate streams - you were A,B,C or D across the board. Seems nuts to me. I was in the top set for maths and science, and the bottom for languages. dh had to drop a set to take computing (only for stupid boys, obviously). And his parents paid for him to go there (well he was on a scholarship, but you see what I mean). I will not be sending my two to a school like that!

Mercy, I only remember those because they were so outstandingly spectacularly awful - I don't remember any others!

German was 3rd year - they kindly stopped making me do it after that; Latin was lower 6th (one year only - ditto); not sure about geom, 3rd or 4th year maybe. I did just pass O level Maths though, they must have mixed up the papers.

Definately PE. I've never in my life managed to jump a hurdle, I was almost knocked out with a rounders ball and I ended up with a split lip after being smacked in the mouth with a tennis racket. Is it any wonder I wasn't keen?

Also we had to do hockey in tiny little skirts in the freezing cold (the teacher always had a nice warm tracksuit on btw)on this horrible gravelly pitch. If you fell over you were picking it out of your knees and hands for the rest of the day.

I think it was the whole 'team' sports thing that made it worse. I didn't mind too much in the sixth form because we were allowed to play squash.