Movement Education in the Primary School
Year: 1965
Country: United Kingdom
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl
Keywords: physical education
Description: The basic elements of space, weight, and time are illustrated in this film. Children, 7 to 11 years, from Chandag, Spaxton and Walliscote Primary Schools in the county of Somerset are showing developing movement skills during the movement training and apparatus parts of the lesson. The concepts of space, weight, and time are closely described and illustrated. Teachers will find many ideas relating to technique and the creative use of apparatus throughout this film.
Video Added: 15.05.2026

Bewegungserziehung im 3. und 4. Schuljahr
Year: 1958
Country: West Germany
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl
Keywords: physical education
Description: The course covers practical and teaching methods with their methodological, pedagogical, and organizational tasks. The physical education content shown includes: jumping (jumping rope, forms of high jump); cartwheels, swinging into a handstand, hanging swings, climbing, balancing in conjunction with helping in a group, gymnastics on the horizontal bar/vault combination, swinging (rope, rope/vault combination); hopping, running, throwing, catching (including passing, dribbling, and netball). Endurance and playing skills are promoted.
Video Added: 06.03.2026

Bewegungserziehung im 1. und 2. Schuljahr
Year: 1956
Country: Germany
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl
Keywords: physical education
Description: The practice and teaching methods of physical education in the 1st and 2nd grades are presented as 'education through movement' within the framework of overall teaching in elementary school. The basic forms typical for this age group have been chosen as examples of physical education in schools: running, jumping and carrying, springing, pushing, crawling, rolling, climbing and balancing, swinging up and down on equipment, throwing and catching. Building on children's play, the emphasis is on the independence of the pupils in acquiring skills and on their own creativity.
Video Added: 20.02.2026

Pienikin ponnistaa

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Year: 1953
Country: Finland
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Keywords: physical education
Description: Physical activity of young Finns.
Video Added: 05.04.2022

Skolerne på Lolland-Falster
Year: 1950
Country: Denmark
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl
Keywords: physical education
Description: Admissions from different schools at Lolland-Falster. Pictures of play in the school yard. Teaching crafts, needlework, housekeeping, music and gymnastics with jumping abdomen in slow motion. Round ball in the school yard and other games. Ice skating on frozen lake. Boy gymnastics in the hall with rope exercises in slow motion. Girls jump over wooden plinth etc. From 1950s.
Video Added: 01.07.2020

200 brave children
Year: 2011
Country: Ukraine
Section: reportage
Tags: boy, girl
Keywords: physical education
Description: Winter. Ukrainian children play in underwear only during physical education lessons.
Video Added: 24.06.2020