Educational Alternatives, Volume 13, 2015

Abstract: The lessons in physical education form the basis for building life skills and giving young people the opportunity to have an independent and healthy life while experiencing direct connection between intellectual and physical knowledge, which is the key role of sport at school. Children at the nursery and primary schools, respectively, develop particularly intensively in games - functional, constructional, role-playing games, etc. In children of this age, volitional processes, attention, memory and cognitive operations proceed more intensively in gaming situations than in most other activities. In secondary education the main focus is on building autonomy, the foundation of which is laid by the initiative type of activity with the task set by the teacher. Physical education and sport "is the learning subject that is directly responsible for the physical health of students in all age groups, its purpose and objectives are aimed at educating the complex personality traits of the students and the latters’ socialization.