What were your experiences like in your Physical Education classes. What was your teachers like and what was your PE Uniform at Primary and secondary.

I love my PE classes and teachers are very encouraging. We have one main gym or the main assembly hall to use if we are doing anything outside and it rains suddenly.
For primary school it was white skirt or shorts and top. I usually wore plimsoles unless I forgot then it was barefoot.
At secondary we have shorts and school polo top.
Since I was 13 I get blisters on my heels ( must have soft feet) and have tried plasters and two pairs of socks but still sore so I got told to do it in my barefeet.
I did try socks but but they were too slippy so been doing it barefoot for a few years now.
We get to do hockey or tennis outside and the boys do football or running so it's a good choice.

Nothing to do so much with the PE class but just over a year ago we were doing PE class and the fire alarm went off so all had to swiftly make our way to the corner of the playground for around 20 minutes till a check was undertaken. Thankfully it wasn't too cold.
I heard later it was the dinner ladies in the kitchen😄

I didn't greatly enjoy it because I was not very good at it, particularly more so the Games than formal PE exercises. I was not interested in football, still am not, and my co-ordination for any sports was poor!

In Primary School we used the school's own asphalt playground and adjacent, small grass field for PE, though the boys of the two upper Years would troop to pitches on a public playing-field about half a mile away, for football. At first we had to change there as best we could in the shelter of a scrawny hedge, but later the school built a basic but adequate changing-hut in the adjoining grounds of a Secondary Modern School.

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Very different in my Senior School.

The facilities there were very good: properly equipped gymnasia (two of them as it was a large school with something like 1100 pupils) and extensive sports field with running-track, cricket, football and rugby pitches. This was not some costly public school either, but a Local Education Authority-run, mixed, Grammar in the State education system.

Neither bare feet nor "trainers". We all wore plimsolls. If training-shoes did exist in the mid-1960s they would have been properly-made sports footwear, mainly I think for the professionals due to cost.

The rest of the uniform, for boys:

- White T-shirt / sports-short top, white cotton-twill shorts, white ankle-socks for PE;
- Blue football shorts and a sweatshirt in your "house" colour for football and rugby-football.

For cricket and volleyball in the Summer term, I think we played in our ordinary class uniform of black trousers and white shirt, tie off; and shoes replaced by plimsolls.

The girls wore navy-blue and white for their PE and Games (hockey and netball).

Though all classes, averaging 30 pupils each, were mixed they segregated us for PE and Games, and combined two forms so there would still be about 30 boys or girls per session.

5th grade gym class was the most memorable for me. Loved gym class. Still remember my gym teachers. Still remember some of the exercises and how we counted them. As I type, I'm remembering flag football, and rolling around on those seated scooters. Loved dodgeball. I remember we had a kid who was really good at throwing. He would purposely hit us girls real hard with the (soft) ball 🤣 even cleaning up the gym stuff was fun.
Edit. I only took one PE, athletic class in high school. I remember being outdoors and walking on the tracks, chatting with the other girls. I remember lifting weights. I actually had a 4 pack back then.
I also loved the PE class I took in college. The prof was great and super funny. We got to play volleyball the gym and run outside.
I can remember we were in the chapter of health and STDs. I'll never forget him saying " if you ever decide to be careless and catch an STD, Chlamydia is the one to get. It's 100% curable with oral antibiotics!".
Student: have you ever had Chlamydia?
Prof: big smile
I'll end here 😆

[b]OK this one is horrifying, especially for you gen z ers. As a teenager we were required to swim nude, in the school's pool. I grew up in the 60-70's. [/b]

It was not uncommon for public schools to have the boys swim nude during PE swim class. Hower, I do recall swim class being an elective class. And as boys, back in those days, we thought nothing of it.

I recall the reasoning being that some kids could not afford proper trunks and it was too cumbersome to determine what was,[i] via construction and materials[/i], acceptable swimwear. It was said that fibers would get caught up in the pool filters and cause significant damage.

For years I have told this story to a few ,[b][u]only [/u][/b]because, although I am from major city, we did have the reputation as being unsophisticated,backwoods and country. And, those few I did mention it to seemed highly suspicious towards the tale, so I just forgot about and haven't told a soul since the 80's. Now, many decades later,[i] I was even beginning to question myself as to if this was a false or exaggerated memory.[/i]

I came across the commenter's posed question,just by random but ,[b][i]before even constructing this reply; I decided to search it ou[/i][/b]t. Believe me, there are some ignorant trolls on 'Similar Worlds's, in the same fashion as they run amuck on [i](snarky youth-dominated)[/i] Reddit. I already have had previous experiences with buffoonish comments towards my posting of unusual yet true events. So I took a long shot and did a internet search and I indeed found others, [i]on other sites[/i], posting similar experiences in their gym classes.

However, now living in an age where much of the hidden past has been revealed, I wonder; as boys we thought nothing of but, what about those gym teachers (LOL -...I think ? ...yikes !)

We would dress down into school shorts, and a top, and the PE teacher would lead us to the track to run. I would always come in last, because I was lazy, and hated running. Then one day, I figured out that if I ran faster that I would be finished faster. So I started leading the pack, and I would finish first, by at least a lap. I began to actually like running, and continued to run after I graduated. I loved the high, and the tone that running gave my legs, and lungs.

For most of my school life I enjoyed PE I wasn't really good in team sports but i tried my best.

Primary school PE was done in the main hall in a pair of shorts only with bare feet. In the summer we sometimes went outside on the playing field abd we were allowed a t shirt.

Middle school PE indoors was t shirt and shorts with bare feet. The facilities weren't that great since PE was once again done in the hall. We slso had a weekly double period games lesson which was for outdoor activities like football, athletics or cross country

High school saw a big improvement in the PE facilities we had two gyms, two sports halls, tennis courts and an all weather pitch. The kit was shirt and shorts with trainers or barefoot optional. Since i had previously done all pe barefoot i continued this at high school

I loved PE throughout my school days and my teachers were nice. In primary school we used the assembly hall and we did it on T-shirt, shorts and bare feet. In secindary school we had red polo shirts embroidered with the school crest and blue shorts. We wore trainers for badminton, volleyball, unihok and softball. For gymnastics and dance we went barefoot.

Loved p e, mainly gymnastics, netball and hockey.

I hated P.E.

Not because I wasn't active as a kid- at home I bicycled, jogged, and swam every single day. But I hated P.E. because our coach always made us play team sports and I am just not sporty at all. So my classmates would bully me, which sucked.

We only had to wear shorts and t shirt. one thing I do remember was that I always got my ass grabbed while playing sports.

Indoor p e kit at secondary was white shorts with no tee shirt and bare feet. Outdoor p e was socks, shorts and school colours too, with appropriate footwear.

In elementary school we played games like kick ball, dodge ball and softball.

Middle school started with sports more akin to high school, like basketball, wrestling, soccer, baseball and a bit of track.

Once you were in high school, if you were on a sports team that season, you were exempt from gym class. So, I rarely had gym in high school. It’d be scheduled as a class, but they automatically gave you an “A” and you didn’t even have to show up.

We didn't have uniforms. And the Primary school PE teacher liked boys way too much.

We had black shorts and a t shirt from what I remember, I hated it and only learned which guys were bullies and which weren’t.

We had Phys. Ed. classes from grades 7 through 12, and coaches were the teachers. I was an athlete, playing football, basketball, baseball, and track, so all the coaches knew me and knew that I really didn't need what they taught in PE. No uniforms, just provide your own shorts, shirt, and shoes.

I really cannot claim to have learnt that much about the maintenance of physical health when I was at school. We had to do long runs. We had to do gym work. Once a year there was would outside of the school be called field. And track competition but there were no preparations for it as I recall

high school 14-17, 4 days a week religion on fridays. not gifted or exceptional, didn't go out for a team. like most of the rest of it, did what I had to do to the barest minimum. didn't care one way or the other.

(edit) we had an issued uniform top and shorts.

Gym was always my favorite subject. I love trampoline, parachute, disco and ballroom dancing, ballet, track and field, softball and swimming. Basketball sucks because the ball is too dangerous and same for baseball and lacrosse.

If ever I had the choice between basketball and ping pong, I'd take ping pong .

Or I could walk laps with my friends, as they would choose the same thing. Laps and ping pong, that's all it ever was

Must have been rather unspectacular as I can't remember one of them. I liked playing baseball but we didn't play baseball in phy ed.

In middle school,I had to do P.E in bare feet for two weeks,and an embarrassing situation came out of it.

We train in tops shorts and runners

I don’t recall the school being strict about what you wore for PT