PE did you love it or loathe it??

Loathed everything about it - the navy-blue bloomers, the s/s aertex shirts that meant you froze half to death outside, the aimless running about, the COMPETITIVE SPIRIT (Lord, save me from ambitious sports people) and of course the PE teachers. I swear they were vetted for the slightest trace of empathy before being offered the job - definitely a warning sign against their suitability for building character in little girls!
Oh, and I forgot about the days of the month when girls need to be treated extra gently (which acted as a red rag to a bullish PT mistress).

did not mind in junior school as it was just if teacher could be bothered then only hoops or bean bags. there was walking to the youth club for music and movement but I always seem to have gone missing when it was time to go
when I got to secondary it was a nightmare do not know if it was the humiliating showers, the bullying by teacher and kids, the confusion I felt as I could not catch or hit things then I got into rounders even made the team then my school closed.
the new Comprehensive was a nightmare hardly went and certainly did not do PE. I joined the badminton club and was told if I did not do PE i had to miss the club! did not work I still turned up anyway and the lady running it did not know of this ruling.

I hated, hated PE and was useless at it. The PE teacher went out of her way to humiliate me and thought I tried at first, I got no encouragement from the teachers so gave up. My mother was sympathetic and said it wasn't important anyway. She was totally wrong, I know now, but all my school life it was torture until I rebelled in the 6 th form and went on strike, to everyone's shock ( and mine!)

I hated every moment of it....initially I did enjoy it but then I had an accident in one class.

The teacher accused me of lying when I tried to explain how painful my leg was and made me carry on, by the end of the day I could barely walk and had to be taken to the hospital that evening by my parents.
I had a stress fracture.
My father 'spoke' to the teacher the next day...I don't think it was a polite conversation.

As for the showers , hated those too.School was certainly not the best days of my life ! Left at 15 but still managed to bag a 1st degree later on life!

Hated it - hockey in particular. Was terrified of getting my ankles bashed with the sticks. Co - ed school and we had to play in navy blue knickers! What's was that all about!? Tee shirts even in winter. Teacher running about shouting at us , she was all cosy in her warm track suit. I resented that, couldn't leave school fast enough .

I hated PE. I didn't realise at the time, but my hand/eye coordination is poor, hence I was useless at any ball games. I was also scared of the high ropes and the horse in gym.

We all hated having to walk to the field for athletics past the boys school in our knickers. Showers were also awful. Why didn't the teachers accept that this embarrassed teenage girls?

I was good at academic subjects and wished we could just do those at school.

I am sure the PE teacher hated me. At my previous school I had been very good at gymnastics and running but as my new school only did team sports I became what my new PE teacher described as 'a waste of space'. She couldn't understand how I could be athletic yet hopeless at anything which involved a ball.

I was a good long distance swimmer so I became the weakest member of the swimming team which relied on speed rather than stamina.

When I left school at 16 I wanted to burn my hockey stick but I had a younger sister so passed it on to her. She later became the captain of the hockey team.

I was usually the second last to be picked for teams. The girl who was chosen last was also the one who deprived me of the bottom place in Maths.

(For the record, I was usually top in English, French and German. I was even fairly good at biology. But maths - ugh. Almost as bad as games.

No showers in my school. Compulsory swimming started the year after I left, or I’d have had to invent another set of excuses. I still can’t swim and have no desire to.

Hated PE and games. Couldn’t do anything in the gym - climb ropes, vault a horse etc and wasn’t good at netball. I was good at tennis but couldn’t be in the team because I wasn’t in the netball team!

Was good at high jump because have long legs. Hopeless at all ball games.

Allira

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I enjoyed Hockey (played for the school teams for three years) and Tennis. Hated Gym and athletics, especially cross country.
Always liked swimming although the school didn't have a pool and we had to walk to the local public one for "lessons", which meant about half an hour in the water if you were lucky. Thankfully my Dad taught us to swim in the River Brue! Those were the days when you could happily get into the river water, wouldn't want to now.

Just seen a video of the local river on our local FB page, I nearly brought up my breakfast again.

It's such a shame that the simple fun of river swimming is so risky now. Where we learnt near Glastonbury has been ruined, mainly because of some so called travellers being allowed to stay in caravans next to where it was safe. Hate to think what they chuck in there!

I hated PE with a vengeance. I was never the sporty type (unless it involved horses!) and was always the last to be picked for a team. As someone else else, the humiliation of that sticks with you. Living in Scotland, our PE teachers always seemed to pick the coldest day of the year to make us go out and do cross-country. I remember being almost blue with the cold!

My husband was the youngest boy in his school to have won all his colours for all sports!
He was driven and competitive...
I couldn't have cared less!

Shinamae

I hated it, the humiliation of never been picked first for netball always the last one when I had to go on somebody’s team
I hope they don’t do it that way now…
It stays with you that sort of humiliation..😣

Reading through these contributions, I feel very deprived..
No hockey, no tennis just netball and rounders
And definitely no showers ☹️

Oops!
I hated being chosen last for teams .
For a time we had folk dancing instead and that was far more enjoyable.
My mother was super sporty and couldn't understand my lack of enthusiasm .
Neither of my girls are sporty, but my son is.
It illustrates just how different people are .

I'd enjoyed rounders and badminton, but I hated P.E.
I damaged my arm weeks after starting secondary school .
It didn't heal as it should have and caused me a great deal of pain .
Everytime I got flu for years afterwards ot would ache .
I wasnt good at gym .
I wasn't good at sports .
I hated

I enjoyed netball, hated, hated hockey, can't remember whether I had the requisite shin pads, because I seem to remember being wacked around the lower legs and always caked in mud, the way my children and grandson have been from football. The actual gym I had mixed feelings about, sometimes a sense of achievement in getting over the horse in a reasonable fashion and doing whatever we were supposed to do on the wall bars, front rolls on the mat seemed to leave a lingering headache. Our gym mistress was somewhat decrepit and given to saying "orf side" and addressing us all with the collective noun of "gals"or requesting us to "do be naice gals" Old school manners, very Blytonesque!

Thanks Allira

Loathed PE but did mostly like swimming, which the same teacher took. Only for swimming we went to an outdoor unheated pool and swimming started immediately after the Easter holidays, and the PE teacher would be there in her coat, hat, scarf and gloves.

I had nightmares for years about PE and the sadistic teachers as well as the bullies who tended to excel at sport. It put me off any kind of competitive sport or activity for life.
Thankfully my daughters didn’t pick up on this and mainly enjoyed PE with one daughter doing extremely well in a girls footy team.
I sincerely hope that no child is made to take part in competitive sports if they feel awkward and upset about it today. There are lots of ways a child at school can get exercise when taking part in a solo sport like running, swimming, or an hour spent in a school gym. No idea why aerobics is not on the curriculum. Much more enjoyable than people screaming at you to do something with a ball in a team sports activity.

I liked PE, as in gymnastics, but I heartily disliked Games.
All that running around after a leather ball of varying size, on a freezing cold field, with (some ) people getting hysterical over winning or losing. Who cares?
Still feel the same.

I hated PE. I did extra Latin, which I loved, to get out of it - most of the time. When we got to Sixth Form (years 12-13) we had large lockers I could fit into. I hid in them every PE lesson until PE staff and class had gone to fields. I still got decent reports from PE Staff. They never came looking for me. Most of the students I taught also hated PE.

Managed to opt out of PE and Games for the 7 years I was at school. Wonderful - got the prize for best results at A level but the Head wouldn't make me a prefect: no school spirit, ha ha. And I can't say my health has suffered in any way from ditching PE.

I hated PE in secondary school - until we had a new PE teacher who seemed to understand us. I felt brave enough to want to do a roly poly over a 'horse' as others were doing it but I wanted to do it without being watched by the other girls. When the girls left, the teacher showed me what to do and she was so patient and helpful - and I succeeded! I was so pleased. The teacher's patience was lovely.