Abstract
The article deals with the physical activity of pupils of older school age - pupils of the 2nd grade of primary school, during an emergency caused by a coronavirus pandemic. It is based on the defi nition of the state of emergency and the requirements for the teaching of PE at primary schools.
The research is focused on fi nding out and comparing the physical activity of pupils from the point of view of the content and scope of physical activities within the distance pages.pedf.cuni.cz/gramotnost 62 teaching of physical education and their own leisure activities. Data was collected using a questionnaire survey.
The basis for processing the results was 408 completed questionnaires of pupils from eight different primary schools across the Czech Republic. The results showed that the most common physical activity was walking in nature (in 65 % of the interviewed children) and regular physical exercises at home were performed by less than half of the children (48, 3 %).
A total of 30,1 % of pupils did not perform any physical activity within the framework of physical education in an emergency state and the weekly volume of physical activities was in 80,9 % of pupils lower than in the normal state. Some fi ndings about children's physical activity are alarming and it is only a matter of time before they manifest themselves on a societal scale.