Involvement of primary school higher grade pupils in extracurricular and out-of-school sport activities*

In this project the figures got in a survey which was carried out on a selected sample were analyzed. The sample was combined of 181 primary school pupils, from 5th until 8th grade. The main goal was to research the involvement of pupils in extracurricular and out-of-school activities (Table 6), as well as the importance of parents' influence on their activation (Table 4). Using the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) in Statistica programme, the obtained figures gave us the insight in basic statistic parameters and the importance of difference among active and inactive pupils (Table 3). Data processing showed us that in this sample the number of pupils involved in different sporting activities was almost the same as the number of inactive students. The analysis also showed that the number of active male pupils is higher compared to the number of female pupils. It has also been found (Table 7) that there is significantly smaller number of schoolboys, compared to schoolgirls, who are temporarily excused from physical education. Analysis has also showed the significance of parents' social status, especially mother's education and her personal involment in sports as one of the important factors for higher involvement of children in different sport sections.