Quick poll - do your kids have mixed sex PE lessons?

[DenbyGirl]

Was just reading an article about schools not letting girls do football and rugby. In my dc's school, girls and boys do PE lessons together and all do all sports.

How about yours?

Yrs 7 - 9 single-sex. After that, they are mixed and can choose which sports they do. DD1 liked indoor non-messy things like badminton and dance. The boys hated dance but badminton was mixed. DD2 loved football even though she wasn't very good at it and played mixed football on the astro rather than grass pitch.

single sex games afternoon session (Cricket, hockey, tennis, football, netball etc..) though some of the highest performing girls play with the boys and on the boys' teams.
mixed PE 45 min lesson (school gym stuff)

Separate at ds's school, they seem to do quite a range of sports though, and I'm not sure if the girls do different sports or just do them separately.

The girls and boys do separate PE, but the girls are allowed on the boys teams for hockey etc. Don’t think I’ve seen a boy on the girls netball team - though that’s not to say it’s not allowed. Girls do hockey, netball then cricket; boys do rugby, hockey then cricket. Not sure about rugby but the out of schools rugby U16 team has played against a team that had a girl on it (also a boy with one arm who was stellar). There is a girls full contact rugby team. We also have a girls footie team. I think they are allowed on each other’s teams and as I said I’ve seen girls on the boys team but never the other way around!

PoloMama it's not a British thing, biological sex is an international fact

We're in Germany. Sport lessons are mixed at primary but at secondary there are both mixed and single sex lessons.

Swimming and competitive athletics and everything they receive a grade is single sex, as they should be, and messing about just being active stuff is mixed, at a ratio of 2 single sex and one mixed double lesson per week.

Football is just as much a women's sport here but obviously played separately as a single sex sport. DD and one DS are both on local teams outside school.

There are no contact sports played at school which again is IMO as it should be. I'd hate to see ds1 who is sporty, has always been tall for his age and broad shouldered pushed into rugby with the associated head injury risks.

Even at DD's level (under 15, local non school teams) mixed football would unfair and dangerous. As I've got boys and girls I've seen the size, weight and muscle difference in sporty teens.

My DCs went to a (US) private elementary school to age 13/14 (it encompassed both elementary grades and middle school). Inter scholastic league soccer - aka football - was played on mixed sex teams. Basketball and volleyball were single sex. There was a rule about everyone on the squads for all sports getting playing time if you had turned up for all practices in the previous week. Cross country was also co-ed.

In high school all teams were single sex.

We are in France where all sport lessons in public schools are always mixed sex up to an including at the baccalauréat where they do the same sports in the same groups but girls and boys are assessed on a different scale. I've never heard of boys and girls being in separate classes for anything.

They don't do football or rugby (at least mine never have). Ball sports tend to be indoor ones - handball, basketball and volleyball. They also do athletics, orienteering, gymnastics etc in mixed groups.

I realise that this is probably a lack of imagination on my part, but how do, say 15 year old, boys and girls play basket ball together? Surely the boys are totally mismatched with the girls?

Crikey, can’t believe how many are mixed sex at teenage level. My two (co Ed grammar) always played same sport as each other but with own sex.
My friends DD is cutting herself because of comments from boys about her body during PE because of mixed sexed classes. It is being (kind of) dealt with but I would have detested doing sports with boys at that age. You are so self conscious. No wonder girls go off exercise at that age.

A lot of schools in the U.K. teach team sports separately at secondary level to help build up competitive teams to participate against other schools. At this level the matches are rarely mixed as the students will be playing against single sex schools.

I think the mixed PE is a wonderful idea.

I am bitter from my past however. I was banned from playing in the successful boys team when I was 8 because of changing room “issues” FFS. The 1960’s & 70’s were different times. I’d much rather have played cricket & rugby during PE as opposed to dicking about in the gym dancing.

NameChangeNugget the girls should be playing the same sports as the boys but separately. Once puberty starts girls should certainly not have to play contact sports with, undress insight of, or compete against boys!

Mixed London independent day school - girls and boys do PE and games separately from year 3 onwards.

First year of secondary school here and it's mixed sex classes - and my DD says the (male) PE teacher favours the boys - great!

I realise that this is probably a lack of imagination on my part, but how do, say 15 year old, boys and girls play basket ball together? Surely the boys are totally mismatched with the girls?

I imagine the teams are mixed sex (tbh I don't know, I should ask one of my teens).

Competitive (club level) team sports are single sex here. I don't know how it works for school sports because my children both dislike team sports.