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 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.