Problems of leisure time of children in the second stage of basic school and compensation school load

The topic of my bachelor thesis is focused on middle school children and spending their free time and compensation of schoolwork. Nowadays, there is a large amount of extracurricular pursuits which children can follow in their free time. They can attend various leisure-time centres, centres for children and youth, school centres and clubs and many others providing leisure-time activities. These centres primarily offer sport activities, afternoon clubs, educational trips and a great deal of other pursuits. Children also pass their leisure time passively, mostly watching TV or using a computer. This is the reason why this issue should be dealt with. We should help children to fill their free time productively and effectively so that they would be able to use it to pursue their hobbies and interests. There are a lot of factors which can considerably influence spending free time such as a family, friends and peers but also teachers or a school which a child attends and many others.My work is divided into two parts. First of them is the theoretical part.section of my bachelor thesis concerns compensation of schoolwork. Second part of the thesis, the practical one, is based on a quantitative research consisting of questionnaires concerning leisure preferences of middle school children. Results of the above-mentioned questionnaires are compiled into graphs and presented in this work. The primary aim of this thesis was to monitor how the youth of today passes their leisure time. To accomplish the objective, four hypotheses were suggested: Hypothesis 1: Today?s children prefer spending their free time passively rather than actively Hypothesis 2: When spending free time passively, children prefer using computer to watching TV Hypothesis 3: Sport activities are more popular with boys rather than girls Hypothesis 4: Pupils prefer playing teams sports to doing individual sport