Subject: P.E class

Good evening!

I am a physical education teacher and just started to wonder how does that subject usually look like in other countries? One lesson is usually 45 minutes. So how an average p.e lesson look like in your country? And how often you have it? In estonia usually twice a week.

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Tomorrow first 2 lessons...ofc they're 45 min...We ussually did some excercises in first lesson(running,stretching,some push-ups etc).At second lesson we play football outside,part of students stays in a gim and play table tennis,chess or voleyball :)
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Lessons are 50 minutes in Belgium. This is what I got:
Age 7-12: swimming ( 1 lesson a week ) and sports ( 3 lessons a week ).
Age 13-18: 2 lessons sports a week.
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umm in Wales;

Lessons are 50mins;
-) Age >11 = swimming was once a week that i remember allthough our local swimming pool got shut down and is now converted to an awesome sports hall which we use for P.E. in school. Normally we had 1/2 lessons in Primary school per week but i honestly cant remember.
-) Age 11-14 = twice a week
-) Age 15-16 = 3 times a week (if opted as GCSE) + 1 compulsary


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We didn't really have average lessons. I remeber it was all devided in topics during the year and also quite biased by the teachers preferences. Around age 12-13 I got way too much handball for example because the PE teacher played it himself.

At older age it was a period of athletics (long jump, sprint, "kogelstoten" (don't remember the English name) and the cooper test), a period of team sports (usually with ball like football, basketball, ...) and a period of indoors "testing" (with a beep test, strength tests, ...).

I remember that once a year we had a lesson of wrestling which was great for me. Always got to beat everyone including the teacher :p

so in my country at school we have twice a week 45 min.

at academy/university once a week but 1h 30 min the same thing :D

You have sports at university? In Belgium, the only university students who have sports are the ones studying sports.

I don't remember well when i was a child but this is what i found into a frenchwebsite for every type of age school :

6-11yo : 4*30mn of P.E. course
12-15yo : 1*2h
16-18yo : 1*2h

In Poland at the unis you have to finish a couple of semestres in sports, which is imho a good idea. You get points for free that allow you to register for the type of sport that interests you.

As for PE classes, well they were 45 minuters, usually 10 minutes of stretching, running and then some football/basketball/volleyball. Sometimes gym, swimming or table tennis.

And yeah, from time to time some tests - like 1km running, 100m running, long jump etc. But not often.

And yeah, from time to time some tests - like 1km running, 100m running, long jump etc. But not often.

Depends on teacher ^^ When I was in high school, we HAD to pass a lot of diffrent exams, like you said 100m, 1km running, 12 minutes running as far as you can :) Exams on the gym, exams from a lot of team games, it wasn't easy but I have good memories :)

our school has seasons of sport,

Winter = Football, Rugby, Hockey
Spring = Athletics, softball (baseball UK version), rounders
Summer = More Athletics, softball, rounders
Last few weeks of school = normally whatever we wanna do :)

Do you attend to sport gymnasium or sth ? :P I have never heard about of so many sports in normal school.

In Germany PE classes (like any other class) is 45 min.
Usually it started with some warming up and stretching and then proceeded with something like football, basketball, volleyball, handball, swimming, gymnastics or athletics. (Depends a lot on the school and it's possibilities.)
I my school we had only 2 PE classes a week, but I think usually you would have 3. We usually had most of the above sports for several weeks consecutively and at the end of these time spans we had to do the exams like sprinting, running, jumping, swimming on time or gymnastic performances and so on.
Later in high school (last 2 years) there was the possibility to choose which types of sports to do during a whole semester. Then we could also do Badminton or Skiing.

same in Czech Rep.

P.E in estonia, at least in my school is twice a week. so that makes 2x15 min a week(officially 2x45)

the lessons are usually in a row. in my case on thursday.

starts at 8:15am
*800 meter jogging = 3-5 minutes
* then we play a football game which, I don´t know how it´s called in english, but I bet all of you have played it. (loser of the game will bend over ass towards the ball, and winners(me + some other guys) will take a free shot)
ending time depends when our football game ends, but it is definitely before 9am

and that´s it,

ok sometimes we have to do other stuff like longjump, pullups etc, but these don´t take usually more then a minute, as I don´t need more then 1 attemt to get my A, or so.. exept 2 mile running, which is a total killer...

nope and we are the smallest school in our county! We just have great teachers, but now we also have a new Sports Hall located on the school grounds so we can use that aslo so we can use the gym, do 5 a side footy, badminton, basketball and loads of new stuff. Also on our school ground we have;
-) 2 rugby pitches
-) 1 footy/hockey pitch
-) 3 full size tennis courts
-) 1 MUGA (which also accomodates another tennis court and also has markings for basketball.
-) Cricket pitch
-) external long jump it

Not bad for the smallest school in our county. The biggest school in our county has;
-) an athletics track all marked out etc.
-) more tennis courts
-) astroturf
-) and all the things we have in our school but i have never seen a MUGA there.

Even though we have less facilities, the standard of ours beats theirs. All their tennis courts are all tatty, broken nets etc. too many markings you get confused. Their rugby pitches are just rubbish, broken wooden posts and is based on an uneven terrain. Us on the other hand look after our facilities, our rugby posts are metal and not damaged, also the pitch is on a nearly flat terrain with only a possible 10 degrees slant at the most. The MUGA and tennis courts are in great condition, and being smart we colour code our lines unlike the other school who just use white. Our football pitch is okay, a bit of wear in the goal section though and we need new posts.