Opportunities for national games usage in school

In a modern school, at different levels of education, popular systems various elements of physical education can and should be used, which simultaneously allow solving health-improving, developing, and educational tasks. The expediency of including folk outdoor games in the school curriculum is explained by the need to intensify physical activity in the classroom, increase the interest in learning through the use of national games. Different nations’ games have their own distinctive features. The games reflect the way of people life, work, national foundations, ideas about the ideal, social life, and the people history. Folk games allow you to preserve the national flavor of customs, the originality of self-expression of a particular people and convey to the next generations. Folk games have many functions: socio-cultural, educational, entertaining, diagnostic, corrective, communicative, etc. At the same time, the folk game has a powerful resource for educating students to respect the cultural heritage and traditions of the multinational people of the Russian Federation. The article describes some content and methodological aspects of the national games use in school.