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Did you do more barefoot PE at primary or secondary school?

ArishMell · 70-79, M
Never bare feet for PE or Games, in either primary or secondary school. We always all wore plimsolls* for everything except football, which of course needed the proper boots.

In Infants' School we took part in the Music and Movement activities broadcast by the BBC in its schools programmes. That was in the assembly-hall and might have been bare-footed, but I cannot remember that detail.

I don't know where this thing about bare feet came from, but I take it that was the practice in one or two schools half a century ago.

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* Some people called plimsolls, "daps". I don't know if that was a regional dialect word.
Hayleywg · 51-55, F
Never wore daps for indoor p e.
RebeccaG · 51-55, F
Secondary was compulsory, I’d chosen bare feet from primary.
Psychologykate · 41-45, F
Think it was pretty equal.
GkB01 · 51-55, M
@Psychologykate I don't remember too much of my earliest years, I suppose I'd have worn what I was supposed to, plimsolls for most things, bare feet for apparatus.
Psychologykate · 41-45, F
@GkB01 my primary school had a fairly strict distinction of bare feet indoors. I can only remember a few things that we wore trainers for and that was when we were older.
Adec757 · 51-55, M
@Psychologykate plimsolls need to be wit at the moment given the Covid concerns.
xixgun · M
Shoes are required as a safety feature by law.
Neither. Barefoot wasn't allowed.
Gusman · 61-69, M
Never done bare foot PE.
Too many bees and bindi
indyjoe · 56-60, M
No, never done that.
The only time I’ve ever done barefoot PE was when I bailed out of my girlfriends window at 2am when her dad came home. That was kinda bare everything PE though.
Adec757 · 51-55, M
More at secondary
MethDozer · M
Nah, I was blessed and privileged to have been born in a developed country.

 
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