Whats was your favourite activity to do in PE?

@onewithshoes Worth going barefoot yourself though to see them? Was it just indoor PE or outdoor too

@Ross19 Indoor and outdoor.

@onewithshoes Same for us although it was boys barefoot outdoors girls optional, seemed an even mix of barefoot and shod. I preferred being barefoot anyway. Especially the cross country

@Ross19 Yer not alot of guys liked school but we respected or maybe more feared the masters as the cane was used liberally not many boys managed to avoid for more than a week at a time .

@Rhode57 Ive never been caned but i think i can imagine it wouldn't have been too pleasant. Id have just gotten along with the rules too even if that did mean running nude or staying nude in the dorms

@Rhode57 awesome you enjoyed basketball and baseball and pe. how was it playing basketball with all the running and jumping"? was it hard on your balls? they told us we needed a jock to protect our balls from damage when bouncing when we were running and jumping. I would have enjoyed doing gym naked.

@Tinkles Rounders on the playing fields on a summer day was always fun

@SunshineGirl Sounds very similar to Pirates. It got banned after one boy climbed up a rope into the rafters of the gym. He stayed there all lesson and won the game. Unfortunately, he fell on the way down and broke his arm.

@SW-User Oh no, that is really unfortunate 😕 I once climbed to the top of a rope and was too scared to remember how to get down again 🙈

@SunshineGirl I could never climb them

@Kbear I used to love that too 🙂

@Kbear Ah yeah i remember the parachute. Did that in summer club during the school holidays

@itsok How do you play the bacon game?

@SunshineGirl all players would be separated into two teams, and lined up facing each other. A piece of “bacon” (in our case a brown paper towel schools always have) was laid in the middle of two competing players. Both players would try to run and steal the bacon without being tagged by the other player.

@lizzielost you had gymnastics in high school?? no high school here has a gymnastics team. 🍪

@lizzielost Ha probably gymnastics and dance were my least favourite

@SunshineGirl Sounds good

@Ross19 I was so proud of my leotard when I first started school. Used to wear it as casual clothing at the weekend 😆

@SunshineGirl Oh wow! Haha 😄

@istillhaveanameitsrick I loved dance, but imagine it must have been hell for the boys 😆

@SunshineGirl It was extremely difficult for boys like me who were introverts and I was (still am) terrified of girls/women.

@SkeetSkeet Haha oh no!

@SW-User That sounds great fun 🙂

@SW-User That, or at least the crab-walking, was one of our games, too, occasionally.

The First and Second Years of my upper school were in rather strange old building with limited facilities, and sometimes the PE teacher would make us finish the lesson by crab-walking from the Assembly Hall used in lieu of a non-existent gym, down the corridor to the changing-room about 10 yards away.