The perception of the sport-educational process by the pupils aged between 9 and 11 from the Spodnjaposavska region

How the pupils perceive the sport-educational process is a very important piece of information for teachers in order for them to plan sport education lessons. In my work I surveyed how Physical Education (PE) is perceived by the pupils aged between 9 and 11 in the Srednjeposavska region. In the theoretical part I discussed physical competencies, which are to be developed throughout schooling years, factors that influence the youngsters' way of life and how those affect their lifestyle, I thoroughly surveyed obesity and physical competencies and the role of Physical education in the life of a youngster. With the last I focused on the aims of Physical education, the role of the PE teacher, the grading and the popularity of the subject and the importance of the quality of the PE lessons. For the empirical part I conducted a survey using the questionnaire method, which included 994 pupils aged between 9 and 11in 17 school of Srednjeposavska region. The results show that PE is mostly taught by the PE teachers (75,6%), the class teachers (21,1%), only a small number of pupils are taught by both (2,7%). PE is the favourite subject for pupils. 45,8% of pupils ranked PE as number one, 18,1% as number two and 13,7 % as number three. 95,2% of pupils like PE. Among the subjects that pupils find important for life in the long run are Mathematics (39,1%), followed by Slovene (23,9 %), PE is ranked as number three (16,3%). Results show that in terms of popularitypupils aged between 9 and 11 ranked football as number one (53,0%), it is followed by volleyball (40,2 %), basketball (34,4%) and handball (31,7%). Among the least popular sports pupils ranked basketball as number one (32,0%), followed by handball (29,6%), football (27,4%) and volleyball (20,0%). When asked about the popularity of the PE activities and methods of work school camps were ranked as favourite with 63,3%, followed closely by the game Between two fires (Med dvema ognjema) with 60,6%. Sports day also received almost half of the votes (47,5%). Furthermore results show that dance is the least popular activity (48,1%), followed closely by gymnastics (42,0%) and athletics (40,0%). The fact that pupils perceive PE differently than other subjects can be explained by the result showing that 60,1% of the pupils chose »We choose what we are going to do« factor. Some of the factors, PE activities and methods of work that reduce pupils' positive perception of PE are the following. Pupils dislike when the teacher is angry with them (45,0%), when classmates shout (42,1%), that the teacher punishes them, if they are not obedient (37,2%), if PE lessons are performed in the classroom (30,4%), if they are late for PE lessons (28,8%) and if other pupils laugh at them (25,6%). Factor: PE is performed in the classroom (30,4%), we don't have a gymnasium (20,7%), when we have PE lessons outdoors (18,8%) were ranked as number 5, 9 and 13, which means that most pupils do not find a bad spatial and financial capabilitiesof the school disturbing, as only rare schools do not have a gymnasium. Most pupils of the 5th and the 6th grade were graded with the highest grade 5 (69,1%) in the school year of 2011/12, 90,2% of the pupils were satisfied with the grade, 26,2 % of the pupils wish they did not receive grades at all, 20,3 % of the pupils are scared of grading. If pupils wereleft to choose PE activities, most of them would play football (34,5%) and Between two fires (Med dvema ognjema) (25,8%)