| Extracurricular Sport Activities (ESAs) refer to varieties of sport activities participated by the students in addition to Physical Education (PE), including both the sport activities participated by the students purposefully under pre-determined plan and organization on and outside of the campus and all other sport activities on and outside of the campus participated by students on a spontaneous basis. As an extension of PE, ESAs for primary school students constitute an important part of primary school education. It plays a significant role in strengthening students' physical being, improving students' health and building up a perpetual consciousness and habitual inclination for sport activities among primary school students, it is therefore one of the fundamental ways to achieve the targets of school sport education.ESA takes a significant position in school curricular education and is an important forefront of school education. The school education not only contains the numerous courses set on the curricular tables of the school, but also includes substantial amount of various ESAs that are valuable for physical and psychological development of the students, such as recreational activities, scientific and technical activities, sport and match activities, etc. Working in a perfect combination and coordination supplementing each other, various ESAs and curricular activities jointly form an integral school educational and curricular system towards realizing the goal and task of school education altogether. ESAs and PE are also interconnected and complement with each other. Physical education has made certain physical and technical preparation in students for the development of ESAs, and PE offers a readiness of knowledge and skill for ESAs, in return, ESAs provide a way that the result of PE is tested and evaluated in practice.Primary school students' ESAs are of fundamental importance in cultivating sports consciousness, forming the habitual behavioral pattern for physical training and obtaining the skill and method of physical training. This paper adopts the methods of checking documentation and information, issuing investigation questionnaire and statistical survey, etc. to conduct research and analysis. Based on the approach of random sampling, the paper attempts to conduct a comprehensive survey of ESAs being performed in 29 primary schools in Chongwen District and 37 primary schools in Fangshan District, Beijing, involving a total of 940 students and 90 officers in school sport education authorities. On this basis the paper provides a comparative analysis on the ESAs in primary schools in urban and rural areas in Beijing. The conclusions of this paper are as following.Firstly, most Beijing pupils enjoy participating sports activities after school, meanwhile there are still some students don't like ESAs. The school head and the class adviser hold the active attitude to sports activities after school. The development of club is a trend of elementary school sports activities after school.Secondly, the pupils from Beijing urban area and rural area participating ESAs are mainly for the motivation of tempering one's willpower quality and preventing a disease from enhancing healthy, which are listed as top 2 among all the motivations. The favorite sports project among Beijing pupils is table tennis, and the sports project taken mostly is jogging and doing exercises while listening to radio music.Thirdly, most of the pupils of Beijing spend 30 to 60 minutes participating ESAs each time. About 75% students would like to choose free mansions in school to do exercises, along with schoolmates or friends.Fourthly, ESAs in urban and rural area of Beijing primary school is PE teacher in charge.And fifthly, the ratio of each pupil to sport places in Beijing is much less than that of the national standard. The majority of the experts, teachers and students hold the positive attitude to the future of the ESAs development.
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