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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.
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.