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Apr 08 2008

Skateboarding as part of school PE lessons

Published by Barry at 1:09 pm under Random

News Exert from The Times a daily national newspaper published in the United Kingdom.

Skateboarding could become as much a part of PE lessons as football under plans aimed at fighting childhood obesity. Educationists hope that pupils in Scotland — a third of whom are overweight — will ditch TV and computer games and take up sport if they are introduced to more diverse, modern activities in physical education classes.

In what is thought to be a national first, Dundee City Council is in talks with a skateboarding park with a view to offering skateboarding lessons as part of gym classes. The Scottish Executive has committed an extra £20 million up until 2007 for sports development and pledged to train 400 extra PE teachers. Martial arts, dance, skating and aerobics may also be introduced.

December 30, 2005

(Old News, but can you imagine having skateboarding as a school PE lesson!!) I had to play rugby. Gary had to play Netball.

6 Responses to “Skateboarding as part of school PE lessons”

  1. # Garyon 08 Apr 2008 at 2:42 pm

    Hes joking, i had to do gymnastics

  2. # Aerobics Gymon 31 May 2008 at 5:50 pm

    Aerobics Gym…

    I think it really depends….

  3. # mohamed rizwanon 13 Jul 2008 at 2:20 am

    yes need 2 do a skate park in school

  4. # Wynon 13 Jan 2009 at 10:37 pm

    Yeahh, I used to be from Bedok North Primary, where they had a skateboarding club, but the school had to be demolished due to low annual intakes.. Yeahh, a pity! It lasted 4 years? and that was in the late 1990s. Havent heard of other local schools having skateboarding as a CCA since… Damn. haha

  5. # charleson 22 Jan 2009 at 2:52 am

    heard singapore poly has a skate club or somesorts. http://www.sp.edu.sg/SPweb/appmanager/home/default?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=SP_CS_LSP_SC_H_SC hopefully im studying there this year. applied, have interview 22 jan, 4pm

  6. # Barryon 22 Jan 2009 at 3:53 pm

    Good luck with the interview Charles!

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