The use of skiing in school physical and sports education in elementary schools

Abstract

The aim of our contribution, which is part of the grant task KEGA 032UMB-4/2022 Innovative teaching materials for teachers of physical and sports education in primary schools with a focus on winter seasonal movement activities, is to find out the interest of second-grade primary school pupils in skiing and their opinions on the organization ski training. We ascertained the students’ interest in skiing and their opinion on the organization of ski training through a questionnaire created by us. 925 primary school pupils from the Central Slovak region were involved in the survey. Almost 75% of students completed ski training. The greatest interest in ski training from the pupils was in downhill skiing, where almost 67% of the pupils chose it