摘要：This paper deals with the extracurricular activities of primary school pupils. The paper shows the specificities and advantages of extracurricular activities and their positive influence on the pupils. The research was conducted on a total of 1,411 pupils in 65 primary schools in central Croatia. The goal of this study was to discover the activities taken up by pupils in order to find out how much gender and age influence pupils when they enrol in extracurricular activities. The results show that girls undertake extracurricular activities more than boys (1.214 activities per girl), while boys participate less in extracurricular activities (1.072 activities per boy). When compared to boys, girls participate more in all activities (except in sports). The number of activities does not differ depending on the age of pupils, although there are some differences relating to gender. During four years of primary education, boys participate mostly in sporting extracurricular activities. On the other hand, girls in the second and fourth grade mostly participate in sports extracurricular activities and in the fi rst and third grade they engage in the group of activities we have named “other” extracurricular activities.
关键词：extracurricular activities; education; primary school
