PHYSICAL AND MOTORIC DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN IN YOUNGER SCHOOL AGE PARTICIPATING IN EXERCISES OF CORRECTIVE GYMNASTICS

In contemporary school, children more and more frequently appear with different faulty postures. This phenomenon is still dangerously expanding because XXI century civilization changes in our lifestyle encourage them to be non active. Children spent more time watching TV and using computers than participating in physical exercises. In Polish schools, at classes' I-III, children with faulty postures participate in obligatory corrective gymnastics exercises. In this work, the results of research carried out in preliminary schools of West Pomeranian Province are shown. In this research 288 pupils of younger school age (7-12 y.o.) are examined. In this group anthropometrical measurements are collected (body mass and body height) and the level of motoric efficacy is determined by the Test of Physical Fitness (developed by the International Committee on the Standardization of Physical Fitness Tests). The statistical analysis of the obtained results shows the differentiation in levels of physical fitness. This is related to the kind of faulty posture. Lower levels of physical fitness are presented by pupils with over- or underweight of body mass.