THE ROLE OF SPORTS IN THE SYSTEM OF SCHOOL PHYSICAL EDUCATION

The paper analyzes the main approaches to the use of sports in the system of school physical education. The most important objectives of sport activities in secondary school are to familiarize the students with the varieties of sports and exercises, and to lay the foundations of proper technique. However, these activities should not become the highly specialized trainings and preparing students for participation in the sporting competitions. In our opinion, the system and activity nature of sports and fitness and health recreation activities acts as the effective means to raise the student’s social activity characterizing such physical ability degree, which allows him successful implementing his creative, educational and cognitive abilities, participating actively in social and labour activities necessary for him, and increases his adaptive potential and the growth of social feedback on this basis. The main means of physical education harmonizing and developing all the manifestations of a human body in a human’s life are recognized as the meaningful performing various physical exercises, most of which are specially invented by a man. They suppose gradual increase of the exercise load starting with the warming up to the more intensive training, then from the training to the relevant sports and competitions of various levels, and from them, according to the increase of personal physical abilities, to the breaking of personal and general sport records.