Episode 87 - Student Guest Host: Zara - 'A note to my PE teacher': Student Voice on Physical Education Experiences

Um, so now if we're going to go on to some negative experience you may have had in PE.

So if PE could be different, what would you change about it? So has anyone ever felt like PE has made them nervous?

I'm very doing sports that I'm not as confident in and I can't do.

I'm speaking on behalf of other people maybe when it's coming into like getting into groups and stuff and there's always that one person that's left out and how to make them feel included as well

I think a lot sometimes peak it some people can get uncomfortable wearing either like leggings or shorts and like that makes them not want to join in

Yeah, I'd say at the, when I first joined secondary school at the peak, it wasn't very inclusive.

And I think definitely over the years being in secondary school, it became more inclusive and had more flexibility.

So people would, well, they were comfortable in.

So then we also have different ways that people can be grouped together in their different PE classes.

So I know there's been a range of different groupings such as mixed abilities, mixed genders or same gender, same abilities.

Yeah.

So when I started school,

I think it was very much split by gender.

We didn't really have much choice as to what we wanted to participate in, which sports we could do or couldn't do.

They didn't really split us by ability it was more by just gender.

As I progressed through school I think there was a lot of change around this and we developed to the point that we could be in mixed groups but also by ability so it meant that we could push ourselves in different areas and you could enjoy things a lot more.

Do you find with the, from the same gender, same ability to mixed gender, mixed abilities, do you find that that increased the participation levels across the people who may have not participated in sport before?

Yeah, I mean, I've seen it from both sides.

I've taught lower ability split gender groups and I find they're a lot less engaged us when we were all mixed, we were able to kind of make a choice as to what we wanted to do.

And we had more opportunities to compete against people within our PE lessons that were more at our level.

So it made it a lot more enjoyable.

So I know some of you get to choose your different pathways, which you go down into, into PA.

Does, do you think that has changed the way more people are getting involved, getting involved in different PE lessons?

Yeah, I understand.

I think you see some of the lower ability people, you know, mixing with a higher ability and it's just good to see, you know, they're doing sports that are not necessarily they would enjoy, but them participating, I mean, that's good for them to try out different sports.

Um, so now if we're going to go on to some negative experience you may have had in PE.

So if PE could be different, what would you change about it? So has anyone ever felt like PE has made them nervous?

I'm very doing sports that I'm not as confident in and I can't do.

I'm speaking on behalf of other people maybe when it's coming into like getting into groups and stuff and there's always that one person that's left out and how to make them feel included as well

I think a lot sometimes peak it some people can get uncomfortable wearing either like leggings or shorts and like that makes them not want to join in

Yeah, I'd say at the, when I first joined secondary school at the peak, it wasn't very inclusive.

And I think definitely over the years being in secondary school, it became more inclusive and had more flexibility.

So people would, well, they were comfortable in.

So then we also have different ways that people can be grouped together in their different PE classes.

So I know there's been a range of different groupings such as mixed abilities, mixed genders or same gender, same abilities.

Yeah.

So when I started school,

I think it was very much split by gender.

We didn't really have much choice as to what we wanted to participate in, which sports we could do or couldn't do.

They didn't really split us by ability it was more by just gender.

As I progressed through school I think there was a lot of change around this and we developed to the point that we could be in mixed groups but also by ability so it meant that we could push ourselves in different areas and you could enjoy things a lot more.

Do you find with the, from the same gender, same ability to mixed gender, mixed abilities, do you find that that increased the participation levels across the people who may have not participated in sport before?

Yeah, I mean, I've seen it from both sides.

I've taught lower ability split gender groups and I find they're a lot less engaged us when we were all mixed, we were able to kind of make a choice as to what we wanted to do.

And we had more opportunities to compete against people within our PE lessons that were more at our level.

So it made it a lot more enjoyable.

So I know some of you get to choose your different pathways, which you go down into, into PA.

Does, do you think that has changed the way more people are getting involved, getting involved in different PE lessons?

Yeah, I understand.

I think you see some of the lower ability people, you know, mixing with a higher ability and it's just good to see, you know, they're doing sports that are not necessarily they would enjoy, but them participating, I mean, that's good for them to try out different sports.