Provision of the Continuity of Junior Pupils' Educational Activity by Means of Physical Culture

Educational continuity is one of the significant efficiency indicators in the activity of an educational organization. The most attention should be paid to the continuity of the first and the second education levels, provision of which creates the conditions for children's adaptation to the learning environment in the long run. Scientists consider both educational and upbringing continuity. The transition stage between junior and middle school is usually described only from the point of view of learning success and the problem of upbringing continuity between junior and middle school, its criteria and mechanisms are not studied enough. The paper is devoted to this problem. The purpose of the article is to disclose the mechanisms of educational continuity provision between junior and middle school basing on the application of means of sport and physical culture. The main methods of the research are pedagocical observation, questionnaire survey, testing pupils of the fourth form, their parents and teachers, and also expert assessment of the pupils' psychological types. The result of the research is distinguishing the mechanisms and conditions for educational continuity provision for the fourth-form pupils and their adaptation to studying in middle school basing on their project psychological types. Repetition of psychological types among pupils of the fourth form in Nizhny Novgorod region and physical culture teachers' and the school psychologist's actions aimed at prevention of emotional burn-out of future fifth-form pupils while the transition to the new educational stage are detected.