Boy, 13, left ‘shaking and freezing’ after PE lesson in torrential rain

A “terrified” mother has spoken out after her son returned from school with “dripping clothes and tight shoes” after a PE lesson. Lisa Gratton was shocked to find Callum “soaked” when she picked him up from St Peter’s Academy in Fenton, Staffordshire, where he had been playing football in heavy rain.

At St Peter’s Academy, students are required to wear PE kits all day when they have PE lessons, a measure designed to avoid the need to change in common areas. Unfortunately, this policy left them without a change of dry clothes on the day of the incident.

The Met Office issued a yellow weather warning for rain in Stoke-on-Trent that afternoon, which coincided with Callum’s outdoor football session. With the school’s gym busy for exams, students had no choice but to play outside, despite the lesson ending 10 minutes early due to poor weather conditions.

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Speaking to StokeonTrentLive, Lisa expressed her dismay: “I’m absolutely horrified. He came home soaked. Freezing. They wouldn’t let them in. They wouldn’t even give them the option to go in. We all have access to the weather forecast and I knew the time was coming those kids shouldn’t have been allowed to play football in this weather.

She went on to say: “He was wrinkling and shaking and laying on the sofa with a blanket over him and normally he would have been upstairs at the games. He wasn’t himself. What if she had had PE earlier in the day. They would have been expected to sit in lessons soaked all day because they go to school in their PE kit on PE days.” reports Birmingham Live.

“The school says they used to make a lot of people who didn’t want to do PE because they didn’t want to change in front of other people. That’s why they put in this provision, which I like, but you can ‘I don’t have kids that come out like that.’

StokeonTrentLive has contacted the school for a response.

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