TheApparatus

Thinking back, I would say we actually used The Apparatus a bit more in secondary school. I guess it's easier when it can be left set up in the school gym all day.

PE was a single lesson for us, in a mixed group with your form. Sometimes I remember the teacher would tell us to get in these little groups, maybe 2 boys and 2 girls together.

So the gym was set up with the wall bars on one side, a section in the middle with things like the pommel horse, the vaulting horse and some blue mats, and then there were benches set up as balance beams and these bigger bars on the other side of the gym.

It was more of a 'structured' lesson with us trying to move round through 2 or 3 of these 'sections'. We only had about 25 minutes because PE was one 35 minute lesson a week(!), but I feel it was a better Apparatus lesson than the occasional sort of 'free for all' we'd had at primary.

How were things done in your school?