Swimming logistics...
As a preface, let me explain something of my school's daily plan: Each day of school gets split into eight 'periods' of 40 minutes each, which were then split up into your classes as either single or double periods of a particular class. So your day ran something along the lines of - get to school, three periods of class, morning break, two periods of class, lunch, three periods of class, home.

PE was a class 'required' in your timetable, and to account for the time it takes getting changed and actually playing whatever chosen sport or activity, always timetabled as double periods.

Normally fine, occasionally a bit of a pain when you end up with a class over morning break - but most people just didn't bother changing and just went off in their PE kit which never really caused much problems.

I still want to meet whichever member(s) of staff decided that swimming was on the timetable for the year regardless, and slap some sense into them... Ever week for that block of however many weeks, everyone got to get changed, go swimming for a period, then got kicked out of the pool for break before resuming afterwards - so you all ended up spending break faffing about in the changing rooms with the limited friends in you class (and more importantly, the knuckledraggers you normally avoided as soon as the bell rung) as you would spend pretty much the whole time getting dried and clothed, then have to just get changed back into wet swimming kit pretty much straight away in time to go swimming after break.

I will admit that at least the swimming itself was more fun than the usual football, rugby or running done the rest of the year, pity the timetable cocked it up so much...
(442, Fri 20 Nov 2009, 20:58, 2 replies)

your school sucked
we never had doubles that went over breaks like that.
(misskitty reeks of sex and turpentine; laudanum afternoons, Fri 20 Nov 2009, 22:07, closed)

Ours either...
2 lessons, break, 2 lessons, lunch, 2 lessons, break, 2 lessons, home

www.longsands.cambs.sch.uk/

Of course, it was still called a comprehensive when I was there...
( snee held his breath since, Tue 24 Nov 2009, 10:21, closed)