(30 Mar 2015, 4:54 pm)MurdnunoC wrote On the contrary, I loved P.E. It was always a lesson I thoroughly enjoyed despite not being that good at anything in which I participated. I could never understand those perennial P.E. avoiders.

I love PE as well, even if I am a bit of a background character in those lessons.

When it's dodgeball, it makes my day! I absolutely love that game, and sometimes we get to play Call of Duty style.

(30 Mar 2015, 4:50 pm)Tommy_1581 wrote I don't see the point in PE, some people are still going to grow up to be a fat truck driver with IBS.

The worst thing, probably relieving myself in a sink in year 1. lol

I found P.E. pointless how many jobs in life are going to hire you based on how good you throw a javelin?

When I was in year 9 we ended up getting an extra lesson of P.E. a week instead of an English lesson, so we'd be fit but thick!

(30 Mar 2015, 4:55 pm)MarcTheA4 wrote I love PE as well, even if I am a bit of a background character in those lessons.

When it's dodgeball, it makes my day! I absolutely love that game, and sometimes we get to play Call of Duty style.

Exactly. You don't have to be any good at anything to enjoy it. 

If you're competitive - it serves a purpose; if you're not - it's still fun!

(30 Mar 2015, 4:59 pm)MurdnunoC wrote Exactly. You don't have to be any good at anything to enjoy it. 

If you're competitive - it serves a purpose; if you're not - it's still fun!

I completely agree, I tend to be partnered with my best friend Rhys in PE anyway, so it adds an extra element of enjoyment.

When it's tutor versus tutor dodgeball, we are normally separated, but it's always fun to watch the last man standing run frantically...been in that position many a time (because I'm never up front and just dodge the ball [lol]).

Even if it's football, 5 aside or 11 aside; a sport I have little knowledge or interest of, it's still enjoyable to feel the sense of victory from a goal your own team scored...even if it wasn't by you or you even assisted in it.

Let's not forget rugby! Watching the sporty, more fit members of the class chase each other like savages then beat each other to the ground is sometimes the highlight of the day.

Volleyball and Handball, even Danish Longball (something two teachers made up at the school years ago, still a traditional ''rainy day'' game, obviously we get to choose between that and dodgeball normally) are games I enjoy participating in. There's always a nice feeling, if you're having a rubbish day, and your team comes out victorious - it's still great.

Even though the other tutor is hands down better than mine, and wipe us out in minutes in a typical game or dodgeball (I tend to call it ''strafing'', in reference to how many they can take out as they run away or attempt to take cover, hehe) - I still absolutely love PE, because it gives me an energy rush that you don't get in any other lessons.

Now, I am by no means physically fit, not fat, but not fit (hope you know what that means!) but I still enjoy PE because of the above reasons.

Hasn't this thread been done before?

Had a few run ins, but dropping hydrochloric acid out of a pipette, onto the seat of someone - was probably up there.

(30 Mar 2015, 4:59 pm)MurdnunoC wrote Exactly. You don't have to be any good at anything to enjoy it. 

If you're competitive - it serves a purpose; if you're not - it's still fun!

P.E. Wasn't very fun if people were shouting your **** every week.

I would always turn up for the lesson and I would try but I was awful and when I did actually do good I got no praise whatsoever which has caused me to think many things I do in life to be worthless and a waste of time, little wonder I ended up having a bit of a breakdown last week.

Our PE lessons in Yr10 and Yr11 pretty much consisted of football. I suppose it was an easy two hours twice a week, because they'd just put all the lads in half a year onto three pitches. It was always an occasion, because they often let captains pick (which the FA actually says you can't do now!), and you got pretty even teams.

(30 Mar 2015, 4:41 pm)MurdnunoC wrote Nowt much I'm afraid in my case.

I was the kind of guy who persuaded others to get into trouble at school while I sat laughing in the background.

I managed to get into a few fights, defaced someones homework diary and shoved a plastic ruler down the back of a radiator. That's all I can remember really.

Snap! I got on well with my teachers, so even when I did do something wrong, they turned a blind eye. As I'm sure I've said previously, I treated my teachers with respect but also treated them like human beings rather than some sort of alien who isn't just like you or I. For that, most of the teachers respected me in return.

Regarding P.E, I didn't really partake in any P.E lessons from the middle of Year 9 until I left during February in Year 12. Rugby was always the sport boys had to do from September until January, and I hated it with a passion. Running up and down a field, getting stamped on by metal studs, and finishing absolutely filthy, was not my kind of thing at all. I preferred football, which we played during the spring term. Cricket was the sport I enjoyed the most in Years 7 and 8, as it was during the summer when it was sunny and warm (the majority of the time!) The end of term was the best, as we played various indoor sports, including dodgeball. I am quite competitive, and this is the sort of thing I liked to get involved in.

In Year 9, we started to have more freedom. Boys could join girls if they so wished, and it was up to us which sport we played. In return, we had to complete some sort of fitness exercise at the start of each lesson. Whether it was "the bleep test", or the one where you run round a 100m square for ten minutes, I hated it. That's when I started to drop out of P.E lessons more frequently.

In Year 10, I decided to take an additional GCSE, and as such, dropped P.E altogether. I decided it would be better for my future if I could have an additional GCSE rather than running around for two hours on an afternoon. This continued in Year 11. The P.E teachers didn't really care as they had given up on my year group by this point. None of us were particularly athletic and the fair majority of us preferred just messing around and playing upbeat pop music very loudly through some speakers we managed to acquire. This year, I wasn't even allocated a P.E lesson, as there was a clash between A Level English and the hour-long P.E lesson. I didn't complain!

When I was in year 11 I had no life, I had to spend a large proportion of my "free" time revising for my exams and the stress of finding time to fit revision in was horrendous and a massive strain with me often having to spend a few hours a night revising for stuff on top of completing homework so I was thinking I would rather be spending two hours doing revision instead of failing to swing a bat and the end result was I didn't do as well as I'd would have liked in my exams despite me putting pretty much everything into all my exams, so I don't have brilliant grades and I still can't swing a bat thanks a bunch school!

(30 Mar 2015, 5:40 pm)Jimmi wrote When I was in year 11 I had no life, I had to spend a large proportion of my "free" time revising for my exams and the stress of finding time to fit revision in was horrendous and a massive strain with me often having to spend a few hours a night revising for stuff on top of completing homework so I was thinking I would rather be spending two hours doing revision instead of failing to swing a bat and the end result was I didn't do as well as I'd would have liked in my exams despite me putting pretty much everything into all my exams, so I don't have brilliant grades and I still can't swing a bat thanks a bunch school!

Look at me, I have no idea what "GCSEs" and "exams" are.

Simply because, nobody at NCC gives a [rude throwing word] about my education.

I'd rather be in school than doing explorer trips during the week to be honest.

(30 Mar 2015, 4:41 pm)MurdnunoC wrote Nowt much I'm afraid in my case.

I was the kind of guy who persuaded others to get into trouble at school while I sat laughing in the background.

I managed to get into a few fights, defaced someones homework diary and shoved a plastic ruler down the back of a radiator. That's all I can remember really.

On my first day back at school in Yr 11, a lad dared me to poke the sharp end of a compass into a teachers back...When the teacher went ballistic the kid who dared me grassed me up

(30 Mar 2015, 5:14 pm)Dan wrote In Year 9, we started to have more freedom. Boys could join girls if they so wished, and it was up to us which sport we played. In return, we had to complete some sort of fitness exercise at the start of each lesson. Whether it was "the bleep test", or the one where you run round a 100m square for ten minutes, I hated it. That's when I started to drop out of P.E lessons more frequently.

What's the 'bleep test'?

P.E. was a subject where I always managed to get others in trouble. My school was notorious for being strict (still is I believe) so once you had your kit on, you had to go and sit quietly on the benches in the sports hall until the teacher came. While I was there, the sports hall had ropes which you could climb. They could also be used as make-shift swings when left unattended. Needless to say, as soon as I had gotten ready for P.E., I used to come running out of changing room and swing on the ropes. I used to encourage others to do they same after I had my go and they used to always get caught and be excluded from the lesson. The same thing used to happen every week - you'd think my encouragement would fall on deaf ears after a while but it never did.

(30 Mar 2015, 5:58 pm)MurdnunoC wrote What's the 'bleep test'?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-stage_fitness_test

It's a short sprint which you have to complete within a certain amount of time. As you progress a "level", the time allotted decreases. If you successfully complete the distance required for that level before a "bleep" tone sounds on an audio tape/CD, you are put forward to the next level. If you don't, you're out, and have to sit/stand at the side.

I only partook in this test once or twice as it was mainly rolled out in Year 9 and was a pretty rare occurrence prior to that. One could argue that this test is great, as you needn't try, and could be out more or less straight away. Unfortunately, as I said before, I'm rather competitive, and this wasn't an option. There was a few lads who did play football outside of school, and I always managed to keep up with them on the bleep test, despite not being particularly physically fit. I exceeded the expectations of most!

Oh god, i remember the bleep test, i used to hate it, although i did quite well for not being fit.

Thank God I never had to do that, it sounds awful.

(30 Mar 2015, 6:04 pm)Dan wrote http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-stage_fitness_test

It's a short sprint which you have to complete within a certain amount of time. As you progress a "level", the time allotted decreases. If you successfully complete the distance required for that level before a "bleep" tone sounds on an audio tape/CD, you are put forward to the next level. If you don't, you're out, and have to sit/stand at the side.

I only partook in this test once or twice as it was mainly rolled out in Year 9 and was a pretty rare occurrence prior to that. One could argue that this test is great, as you needn't try, and could be out more or less straight away. Unfortunately, as I said before, I'm rather competitive, and this wasn't an option. There was a few lads who did play football outside of school, and I always managed to keep up with them on the bleep test, despite not being particularly physically fit. I exceeded the expectations of most!

Now that I look at it, I'm sure there's something similar on the treadmill at the gym. Looks fun though. I may try it to see what I can achieve.

(30 Mar 2015, 6:12 pm)MurdnunoC wrote Now that I look at it, I'm sure there's something similar on the treadmill at the gym. Looks fun though. I may try it to see what I can achieve.

Instant exhaustion and/or death.  :D :P 

I hated the bleep test with a passion, would of rather played football in the rain than do that

(30 Mar 2015, 6:13 pm)beefcake wrote I hated the bleep test with a passion, would of rather played football in the rain than do that

I have to agree, haha

(30 Mar 2015, 6:13 pm)Tommy_1581 wrote Instant exhaustion and/or death.   

I run and swim almost everyday so I think it's unlikely I'm going to die daring to attempt it.

(30 Mar 2015, 6:12 pm)MurdnunoC wrote Now that I look at it, I'm sure there's something similar on the treadmill at the gym. Looks fun though. I may try it to see what I can achieve.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNsVzKt5lPQ
If you want to hear the rules and suchlike, listen from the beginning. If you want to watch the test itself, forward the video to 04:30 minutes in.

If I wasn't so competitive, I'd have hated it. It's certainly not something I'd do alone.

(30 Mar 2015, 6:25 pm)Dan wrote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNsVzKt5lPQ
If you want to hear the rules and suchlike, listen from the beginning. If you want to watch the test itself, forward the video to 04:30 minutes in.

If I wasn't so competitive, I'd have hated it. It's certainly not something I'd do alone.

I think I've seen this on some game show. 

The treadmill I use has a program setting named 'fitness test'. Obviously it will be different but I imagine the aim will be same.

Dare I ask what Call of Duty dodgeball is?!

(30 Mar 2015, 5:11 pm)aureolin wrote Our PE lessons in Yr10 and Yr11 pretty much consisted of football. I suppose it was an easy two hours twice a week, because they'd just put all the lads in half a year onto three pitches. It was always an occasion, because they often let captains pick (which the FA actually says you can't do now!), and you got pretty even teams.

When I was in 4th & 5th year (none of this year 10 and 11 nonsense back then!), we had a choice with what we did in PE each week. I was rubbish at sport and didn't like it, and chose swimming as an option. We didn't have a pool at our school, so one of the teachers would take those of us who had chosen it to the local council pool in the school minibus - a Freight Rover Sherpa (I think it's reg was B226UUM - how the hell can I remember that  ) with a couple of inward facing bench seats, no seatbelts, but none of us died... We'd get dropped off at the baths then picked up an hour later - somehow I can't imagine that being allowed nowadays!

(30 Mar 2015, 8:39 pm)theblackwatch wrote When I was in 4th & 5th year (none of this year 10 and 11 nonsense back then!), we had a choice with what we did in PE each week. I was rubbish at sport and didn't like it, and chose swimming as an option. We didn't have a pool at our school, so one of the teachers would take those of us who had chosen it to the local council pool in the school minibus - a Freight Rover Sherpa (I think it's reg was B226UUM - how the hell can I remember that  ) with a couple of inward facing bench seats, no seatbelts, but none of us died... We'd get dropped off at the baths then picked up an hour later - somehow I can't imagine that being allowed nowadays!

We had the same kind of choices in the 4th and 5th year for P.E. (like you none of this year 10 and 11 nonsense was applicable) except we were trusted to make our own way down to the pool in Blaydon. We also had the choice of going bowling at the Metrocentre which usually involved walking down to Blaydon and hopping on the 602. I don't know why we did this - the M5 stopped right outside of school - perhaps it had something to do with bus times even though I'm fairly sure the M5 was due as we left.

(30 Mar 2015, 6:58 pm)idiot wrote Dare I ask what Call of Duty dodgeball is?!

Call of Duty dodgeball is basically a few takes on the whole ''shooter game'' concept. There's loads of types we've played, many of which I can only remember how to play, not the names, but the most popular are:

- Last Man Standing
- Shoot the Messenger
- Seize the Reichstag

In Last Man Standing, the whole concept is pretty similar to dodgeball in itself. The idea is you have to survive being hit by the dodgeballs, but when you're the last on your team still standing, you have 30 seconds to run and avoid a merciless barrage of dodgeballs from the opposing team. I've been the last man standing once or twice. If you survive, the teacher promotes you to Sergeant (in other words: team captain) and you get to order your team about, as they all re-enter the game after you survive the 30 seconds.

With Shoot the Messenger, in each of the two teams there is a designated messenger who has to weeve their way through to the other side. The other team has no idea who it is, so anybody gets too close, the opposing team gets on their guard. Normally, the strategy is to rally all of the dodgeballs, then everybody charges to the line that seperates the two teams; the messenger (among the crowd) runs forward, and if they touch the wall of the enemy and manage to run back to their own wall; their team wins. As easy as it sounds, it's actually quite hard to get everyone to gather the balls (and not throw them) in unison and launch a full-on attack. Then, you have the problem of the enemy catching the dodgeballs and the messenger being caught in a trap on the other side, not forgetting having to run back!

Put simply, Seize the Reichstag is a play on the CoD: World at War mission where you (as part of the Red Army) seize the Reichstag from the Wehrmacht. Each side sees themselves as the Red Army, with the opposition being the Wehrmacht. The game consists of two people on each team covering themselves with riot shields, while they allow a team of as many as 5 people (with dodgeballs) run behind them to the enemy's territory. From there, it's just a bit of a kamikaze mission to get as many on the opposition out using the one dodgeball you have, but remembering the other team have dodgeballs as well, it just becomes every man for himself and a fight for survival. Generally, the aim from there is for the kamikaze people to throw the ball back to their own side to allow them to attack the remaining enemy. 

We did something called the cooper test in PE, did anyone else?

Basically you ran in a straight line between cones for 12 minutes...

(31 Mar 2015, 8:02 pm)mb134 wrote We did something called the cooper test in PE, did anyone else?

Basically you ran in a straight line between cones for 12 minutes...

Yes - this is what I was referring to the other day! The cooper run is what we called it.

We did it in a 100m square, each line being 25m.

(31 Mar 2015, 8:16 pm)Dan wrote Yes - this is what I was referring to the other day! The cooper run is what we called it.

We did it in a 100m square, each line being 25m.

We went to high school as the only middle school who had done that, so were thrown when we were faced with the "Bleep Test".

Thanks for your reply. I don't think I will be introducing that at my games club!