I wonder what other assumptions we all have about what other people had as part of their "physical education" curriculums in schools?
At the risk of going off topic, although at least it is on topic for the comm:
That would be very interesting to find out! I tried to get my 15 y.o. exempt from compulsory 'physical education' because they were doing 15+ hours of extra curricular dance and other physical training, and was told that at that level it is all about team sports because the aim is to promote teamwork rather than actually to be providing any kind of fitness/exercise. This was in their last year of middle school*, which is the point at which compulsory phys. ed. stops. But what I remember - in city primary schools, there will pretty much always be two weeks of being driven to the local swimming pool for half hour swimming lessons; there will be assorted track and field and team sports, which will continue through middle school, although the events change; and there will be an assortment of other bits and bobs, including ballroom and bush dancing. There will probably be one 'cross-country' run each year, which might just be two laps of the block the school is on, and there is never enough training for that. Oh, and from about year 5 there are school carnivals and inter-school carnivals, and from about year seven they add in swimming carnivals as well!
*local system is K, P, 1-6 is primary, 7-10 is middle and 11-12 is senior, where the last two groups are usually in the same school and generally referred to as high school.
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Date: 2017-04-25 01:33 pm (UTC)At the risk of going off topic, although at least it is on topic for the comm:
That would be very interesting to find out! I tried to get my 15 y.o. exempt from compulsory 'physical education' because they were doing 15+ hours of extra curricular dance and other physical training, and was told that at that level it is all about team sports because the aim is to promote teamwork rather than actually to be providing any kind of fitness/exercise. This was in their last year of middle school*, which is the point at which compulsory phys. ed. stops. But what I remember - in city primary schools, there will pretty much always be two weeks of being driven to the local swimming pool for half hour swimming lessons; there will be assorted track and field and team sports, which will continue through middle school, although the events change; and there will be an assortment of other bits and bobs, including ballroom and bush dancing. There will probably be one 'cross-country' run each year, which might just be two laps of the block the school is on, and there is never enough training for that. Oh, and from about year 5 there are school carnivals and inter-school carnivals, and from about year seven they add in swimming carnivals as well!
*local system is K, P, 1-6 is primary, 7-10 is middle and 11-12 is senior, where the last two groups are usually in the same school and generally referred to as high school.