School sports/PE/Games

[Trickyvee]

Re: PE and Games

I used to have a recurring nightmare as a child where I'd be lying on the empty mat trolley and everyone would start throwing all the mats on top of me until I was crushed Don't know where it came from as I used to really enjoy PE! Managed to reach the dizzy heights of a '9' on the 10 step award

[sixtyten]

Re: PE and Games

Great memories there, Scooby

[scooby365]

Re: PE and Games

At Secondary school we used to alternate between in-door and out-door games. When it was in-door we typically split into teams for games like football and British Bulldogs. I can remember the groans from some kids when the PE Teacher said that it was team games because that meant 'skins' verses 'tops'. Skins basically meant no PE top and Tops meant keep your nice baggy white shirt on. So many overweight kids ran around in 'skins' in the gym, and the ribbing went on for the rest of the day. Hadn't the school ever heard of over-shirt vests or tags?

Oh yes, it was an all boys school

My one memory of PE at Middle school was doing all I could to get out of it. PE at Middle school was very different from PE at First school. I can remember doing PE the first week and having no clue at all about football, and just getting wet and cold for what seemed like hours. The next week I managed to wangle a sick note from my mum so sat in the library instead. However, the following week a mate brought in a sick note from his mum and it not only excused him from PE but also me and 3 other mates. We had a lovely class teacher and she let the rest of the class go, hid us under a table while the PE teacher walked the class from the changing rooms to the field, and then we spent the rest of the afternoon helping to clean up the classroom. Will always remember that

PE at First school was either 'music and movement' or spending most of the lesson getting out mats, wooden horses, ropes, trying very hard to get over wooden horses and up ropes, and then putting it all away. So much effort but not much achieved.

[smurfie1]

Re: PE and Games

At primary school we had to do this programme every summer called 10 step or something similar, you had to compete in various events such as jumping, running and collecting bean bags etc. Your points got added up over the weeks and your score led to a badge up the ladder. I remember acheiveing a "6 step" one year which was my personal best, P.E was not my thing at all. You sewed the badges onto you p.e skirt/shorts.

[kazboot]

Re: PE and Games

In cross country at secondary school, we had to go round the playing field, through a tunnel under the M1 motorway, round a paddock and back.
I just used to sit in the tunnel with my mates for the most part. The teachers couldn't be a**** to check so we always got away with it.

I also did 'Music and Movement'. I remember once being a 'tree' swaying in the wind to 'In The Hall Of Mountain King'.

[sixtyten]

Re: PE and Games

My memories are pretty much the same.
We had a huge A frame in junior school (looking back it probably wasn't as big as I recall it), Horses and springboards. Hated that as I have a fear of falling
I used to do Cross Country to get out of playing football, which is odd as I was Soccer mad until 1977, when I discovered Punk
Later on though, the Cross Country was little more than run to the School gates, get outside and sit around for an hour

[Marine Boy]

PE and Games

We just MUST have a thread on this subject!

In infant school, there was a thing called 'Music and Movement' that involved moving around the hall while 'Spanish Flea' or 'Walk in the Black Forest' by the Tijuana Brass played through the speakers.

Later, at junoir school, we got out the 'apparatus'. There was a climbing frame, two rings that hung down, a trapese-type thing and two ropes. Then there was the 'vault' or 'horse'. I was pretty hopeless on most of these, though I did manage to do some basic gymnastics and even gained a few badges by completing the 'BAGA' awards.

'Games' at secondary school was another matter. Cross country was the worst; I actually got lost once. No, it wasn't funny. And when it came to soccer, rugby, cricket and tennis, I pretty much gave up. To be honest, I dreaded those lessons more than I can say. I was a little overweight and not only did I find the sports difficult, I hated the getting changed and showers afterwards.

So what are people's memories of PE and Games at primary and secondary school, especially during the 70s and 80s?

[Richard1978]

Re: School sports days...

At almost every sports day I remember there was a faller in the Dad's race.

[old git]

Re: School sports days...

Found these in an old box of certificates,not sports day but it was some sort of award scheme.Anyone else remember these:

[Solo]

Re: School sports days...

I always hated sports day, although I was pretty good at the egg and spoon race!

I bet it's seriously different nowadays, no doubt there is Step-parents Race/Lesbian Life-partners Race/Caregiver's Race/and of course the Ethnic Minority Race LMAO

(No offence intended!!)

[SG1973]

Re: School sports days...

I broke the 2 middle fingers on my left hand when I was 10 when we were practicing in P.E. for the wheelbarrow race for Sport's Day. I was the barrow and a big hefty lad was pushing me, but he went too fast, I toppled over and he stood on my hand, breaking 2 fingers. In the end Sport's Day got cancelled that year so I was injured for no reason. :cry:


A few years later at secondary school I was put in for the 3000 meters, just to make up the numbers as I had no way of winning. I was obviously last and at least 1 full lap behind all the others as they finished, when a teacher dragged me off the track and told me off for messing about, not realising I was still plodding along with the race I so dismally lost.

Sport's Day sucked

[Heather74]

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Oh no, I hated sports day at high school, when the serious events like shot put and high jump came into play, give me the infant school egg and spoon anyday, and dont get me started on swimming relay races.

[MommaMystique]

Re: School sports days...

You had to go and dredge up this didnt you? Oh gawd! I am almost shaking . Right.... one year I was asked to make up the house team and participate in the 200m. I am no runner! My events were more discus...held record for three years... shot putt...broke a teachers toe.... and high jump... no comment!
Well as luck would have it... this was also my first time ever using starting blocks. I managed to get myself into that foetal crouch that blocks force the body into and then we were off. Only I wasnt so much as off as slipped..... I tried to go one way... the blasted blocks went backwards and I ended up flat on my face with one of the worst cases of gravel rash ever! And my eldest wonders why I hate sports day at school!

[bumblelady]

Re: School sports days...

mine didint have that today either, its all abut the winning now not the taking part

[Heather74]

Re: School sports days...

LOL not as you are counting hey Bumble, Ryan's Dad did the Fathers race, didn't win though