School sports/PE/Games

[80sChav]

Re: School sports days...

yes sportsday was a day i always looked forward to.
and it really did seem to last an entire aschool day.

to be honest i liked winning but to me it was really about taking part.

i dnt know what its like now but it was just so much fun doing the sack race and the egg and spoon race.
i was always better at the sack race than the egg and spoon.
do they still do those two races now.

I recall the "egg and spoon" and "sack race" fairly well (though it's many moon's since), but stil;l a good part of Sport (PE). Fun day's ... unlike Secondary but that held it's own merits PE wise in a way. Though i'm not trying to like i'm something wonderful (but I knew the PE Teachers) thought little of me and any potiental Sports wise i'd got, even if they saidi'd tried but if they could see me now with what i've acieved for people who needed just a bit of confidence not to feel excluded from PE in school as they were, they'd not know how to react I think.

[darren]

Re: School sports days...

Did you love it or hate it???
It's that time of year again for our local schools. My son won a 3rd,2nd and 1st place today, they did the classic Egg and Spoon, a Dolly in a pram race, and going though the hoops, balancing bars etc.
My Daughters is to be held on Thursday.

I remember being in a sack race and was in front, looked behind me, only to be passed by, by another kid, also did the three legged race and the wheel barrow one, where I was the barrow, and someone held my feet.
Do you have any stories or nightmares to share

yes sportsday was a day i always looked forward to.
and it really did seem to last an entire aschool day.

to be honest i liked winning but to me it was really about taking part.

i dnt know what its like now but it was just so much fun doing the sack race and the egg and spoon race.
i was always better at the sack race than the egg and spoon.
do they still do those two races now.

[80sChav]

Re: PE and Games

That's pretty much it in a nut shell.

Yeah, that was the good thing about PE and sport ... the kind you'd want on your side in any Sport or Game. Yeah they messed about in English/Maths etc but'd look out for you in other lessons like Art/PE!

[Llamarama]

Re: PE and Games

Hmm this is what I meant by that the Chavs/tough guy's would look out for you - as long as you never "double crossed" them etc.

That's pretty much it in a nut shell.

[80sChav]

Re: PE and Games

Stereotyping didn't seem to work as much in my old school. Charv's and Goths got along, no-one seemed to care wether you were bright or not, it worked well. Ego played a much bigger role, people who thought they were best were determined to try to show they were best. We used to play badminton every now and then as doubles, I was once on a team with a charv, a goth and someone who took it far too seriously, so we all just used to mess around and it was all good fun.

Hmm this is what I meant by that the Chavs/tough guy's would look out for you - as long as you never "double crossed" them etc.

[Llamarama]

Re: PE and Games

Stereotyping didn't seem to work as much in my old school. Charv's and Goths got along, no-one seemed to care wether you were bright or not, it worked well. Ego played a much bigger role, people who thought they were best were determined to try to show they were best. We used to play badminton every now and then as doubles, I was once on a team with a charv, a goth and someone who took it far too seriously, so we all just used to mess around and it was all good fun.

[80sChav]

Re: PE and Games

I remember the Charvs at my old school. They were alway's put out as bone-idle layabouts, but that was only true for one or two of them, all the rest were spot on and you could talk about almost anything with them.

Thois is true yeah, I hate sterotyping and ahte even more this kind of sterotyping about people taking aprt in Sport - that's just pure wrong, we can all compete at our own level really

[Llamarama]

Re: PE and Games

I remember the Charvs at my old school. They were alway's put out as bone-idle layabouts, but that was only true for one or two of them, all the rest were spot on and you could talk about almost anything with them. I remember one in particular, always picked me about midway through for rounders or cricket even though I was usually **** and ended up a back stop or a far away fielder, but it made me feel useful.

[80sChav]

Re: PE and Games

Thinking about it, in primary school wasn't PE mainly glorified playing? Those bean bags and hula hoop targets taught me a very important skill in life, how to win at the hoopla stall in the annual school fete!

I guess it was what you said - thinking about it Llamarama, i'd never thought of it this way before.

I think PE at Secondary School was ok if yiou could be in the same side/team as the Chavs - as they'd (sort of like protect you) at least until the end of the chosen Sport (a bit like Mooey from Grange Hill - sort of).

[Llamarama]

Re: PE and Games

Primary school games were quite good and I enjoyed them. Throwing beanbags, playing on climbing frames, swimming, rounders, laughing as the teacher who couldn't do hula hoops try and do one, all good fun. Sports day was great in my primary school, all short little activities but lots and lots of them, used to love bean bag throwing. The idea was you threw a bean bag at a target on the floor about 5 yards away. Wasn't good at it, but it was enjoyment. Then we got to do dance and rhythm and motion... :cry:

We usually had PE in the school hall after dinner, in bare feet too usually. I'm not sure wether I was in a school of messy eaters or wether there was some kid determined to coat the floor in sweetcorn every day, but there was always sweetcorn on the floor without fail.

I hated PE in secondary school, mainly due to the teachers being evil and such, but I loved orienteering! We'd go to a massive nature reserve right on the coast in the summer, were given a map and compass and told to sind out which letter was on a tag on a specific location on the map. This is how I met my best friend and last month he asked me to be his best man at his wedding, to which I said of course!

Thinking about it, in primary school wasn't PE mainly glorified playing? Those bean bags and hula hoop targets taught me a very important skill in life, how to win at the hoopla stall in the annual school fete!

[HG]

Re: PE and Games

Always came last in anything over 200m and once threw up after my pitiful efforts in the 1500m which was embarrassing. Couldn't throw a javelin to save my life!

Throwing up just shows you've tried, like throwing up after a night out means you've had a good night out lol. A lot of people throw up after races, though thankfully I haven't yet, been mighty close though!

[darren]

Re: PE and Games

I was really good at some sports and really rubbish at others. Top of the shop in high jump and often at the top for long jump and 100m sprint. I had zero stamina for running though. Always came last in anything over 200m and once threw up after my pitiful efforts in the 1500m which was embarrassing. Couldn't throw a javelin to save my life!

I was average at team games but didn't particularly like them. I was in the netball and rounders teams at primary school but dropped them in high school and hated hockey (too much running!). School never did the things I was interested in like tennis.

what other sports where you good art in school that they never did mate.
So you preferred individual sports at school to team sports.

I always liked running the longer events like 800m and 1500m.
I tried rugby but i could not understand the rules and it was so brutal.

[Trickyvee]

Re: PE and Games

I was mortified at being one of the last to war a bra, I was mortified at still wearing a vest when most of my classmates were fully developed (except for one girl who only had one proper diddy, strange that was, the other one caught up eventually and she was confident enough to live with it).

This made me laugh. I too was a late developer but then never developed much to shout about in the end . Anyway in the first year of high school everyone wore a vest but in second year it suddenly became a big no no, boobs or not! I got teased for still wearing a vest. Most of us started wearing those cropped vest top things instead as these were deemed alright.

[darren]

Re: PE and Games

yes i did get p.e. for my last lesson.
Sometimes we got it first lesson so i just wore my p.e. gear under my uniform.
i even got to run for one of my school teams.
theere where 4 teams can only remember mine which was carson.

in secondary school we had no tennis courts although we did at my last school but they where tarmac courts.

[80sChav]

Which did you hate/like most - if you had PE before

Lunch or last Lesson of the day!!/ i dreamed of having PE as last Lesson ... it came true luckily for me but only by the time i'd got to 6th Form and as I only did half a year in 6th Form (Year 12) it never bore it's full fruitation having PE last Lesson of the day sadly