School sports/PE/Games

[Shot By Both Sides]

I can remember BAGA (was it) badge sewn onto my swimming trunks. I think we did have an egg and spoon race in primary school anyway, oh and a sack race. I think I hated the horse most in PE or maybe those two rings and those wall bars, all the boys seemed to do was watch the girls climbing them. Never did figure out why. Anyone who has seen the football scene in Kes will know that there have been some quite authoritarian sports masters across the years.

[Semi42]

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Our geography teacher was cricket mad and would come out to the field on a sunny summer lunchtime in full whites and pads and had the older boys bowl at him with the challenge that if he got bowled out (not caught) he would give the bowler a fiver.
that was a fortune in those days.
i used to go to my aunties for lunch so by the time I got back into school premises everyone Had tired of trying to bowl out the teacher, I asked for a shot and got him out first ball.
teacher claimed he wasn’t ready and didn’t count

tightwad

[Trickyvee]

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Underwear and black sandshoes in first school
First three years of high school, the regulation white polo shirt and pleated skirt with shorts underneath in school colours and trainers
last two years of high school - whatever we wanted. Alas it was the era when a shell suit was the garment of choice 🙈

[George 1978]

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In the Infants School it was just our underwear, while in Junior School it was t-shirt and shorts, and Comprehensive School it was the same or a tracksuit so one's legs were covered up in the cold weather - it wasn't exactly like uniform as such, meaning that they didn't have to be the same colour.

And of course, swimming trunks (swimsuit for the girls) for swimming lessons.

[Adec757]

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What was your p e kit? Was indoor undertaken in plimsolls or bare feet?

[George 1978]

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I've only belonged to a men's swimming club and so I've never used a mixed pool. Do they smell of fish?

Well they usually do like water, I suppose.

[Silver Bear]

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... Leo's partner is the Rev. Drabitha Dripwell, vicar of St Jeremy's, where she prays to 'God the Mother' or sometimes 'God the Whatever' because 'She or He is kind of like non-binary really'. She is obese with untidy hair and wears fingerless gloves knitted by a women's collective in Peru. Her congregation sit in a circle instead of pews because it's 'non-hierarchical' As there are only about 10 of them, it doesn't matter. In the Socialist Republic of Heaven, everyone will become gender-neutral and equal in every respect. 'It's a bit like a huge recycling centre,' she tells them. After the service they drink Eritrean Fair Trade Coffee.

Leo and Drabitha live with six female cats and a neutered greyhound.

[Silver Bear]

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Ms Leonora ('Call me Leo') Titcomb, Head of Winnie Mandela Primary School, Hebden Bridge, has cropped hair, wears dungarees and is a member of the Labour Party and CND. She has abolished competitive sport and introduced 'gender neutral co-operative activities' because there shouldn't be any winners or losers and 'no-one is better than anyone else'. She has also abolished grades and thinks reading and writing are 'middle class, male dominated and Eurocentric'. Maths and science are also sexist and irrelevant because most of her pupils are going to stack shelves or work as Deliver drivers, so 'who needs to actually know anything and knowledge is just a white patriarchal middle-class construct anyway'.

Leo's pupils celebrate Eid, Diwali and Winterval. They have a multi-faith and no-faith assembly each morning where they sing 'Baa Baa Green Sheep' and 'We Shall Overcome'. There is no uniform although Palestinian scarves are encouraged.

[Silver Bear]

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A primary school banned parents from attending its annual sports day, with egg and spoon and obstacle races, to spare the children from embarrassment if they lost.

Instead, mothers and fathers were informed that a non-competitive sports day would be held behind closed doors.

Judith Wressel, the head of Maney Hill Primary in Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham, said in a letter to parents: "Taking part in traditional races can be difficult and often embarrassing for many children, which is why we envisage a different outdoor activity event that will suit all children."

"Judith Wressel": surely this is a wind-up.

What a scary levelled-down socialist nightmare. Nobody is allowed to do well, or try, or aspire to be anyone or anything. Reading this makes me feel relieved that I went to a boys' school with only male teachers where we were encouraged to succeed - and try even at things we weren't good at. The Ms Wrestle philosophy of education leads to low-level crime and drugs because it offers no hope.

[80sChav]

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The article you posted above Darren is a great but well sad insight - thanks for the Heads Up and Info mate

That is disgusting what Willie Miller said though and I am astounded!! Banning winning!? I have never heard such PC-Red Tape in all my life - I am sure you are like me here Darren in recollecting many a PE Class involving Footy on a Icy Cold Pitch in the 80s and early 90s - winning never came into the eqaution. It was the taking part or trying to make yourself involved regardless of ability levels I recall. These people who make such comments make my Blood Boil - at that age, it is never about the winning and even if it was it would be a handshake at Full Time Footy-wise or a brief lifting of the Cup in a Local Atheltics stadium etc, not and never about showing the loosing side up

These people who claim all this - can never have lived through the 1980s (more so) and 190s I think or at least denythat the era was what it was.

80sChav

[Silver Bear]

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I remember the AIDS awareness thing in the news in 1986, and my class spread the rumour that men who use the swimming pool we went to had it.

I've only belonged to a men's swimming club and so I've never used a mixed pool. Do they smell of fish?

[George 1978]

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My only experience of swimming pools other than at school is the Men’s Pond in Hampstead: mellow in summer, bracing as Skegness in spring and autumn.

I remember the AIDS awareness thing in the news in 1986, and my class spread the rumour that men who use the swimming pool we went to had it.

[80sChav]

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Congrats to your son.
I remember doing an egg and spoon race.I was probably the fastest runner in my class but i couldn't keep the egg on the spoon,
Dropped it once went back to the start and just as i was about to cross the finish line i dropped it again.

Also remember a practical joke my brother played on a friend of his .
They all got changed for P.E and my bro deliberately put his friend's shorts into someone else's bag.

Oh wow studal - I ahad forgot the Egg and Spoon Race, not as we had much only in the last year or 2 of Primary, but fun it sure was and I guess it is an Enrichment to Sport too

I think we did ours in a Sack too mate too!!

80sChav

[Silver Bear]

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I have been dared to do lots of things quite recently...

My only experience of swimming pools other than at school is the Men’s Pond in Hampstead: mellow in summer, bracing as Skegness in spring and autumn.

[Silver Bear]

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Alice in Wonderland logic: “all must have prizes”.