Rural education in China has been the focus of education and the difficulties of rural education is an important component of the overall development of students is to promote and improve the formation of personality, one of the main ways and means. At the same time, rural schools in rural areas of sports is an integral part of sports. Physical Education has long been the traditional teacher-centered, rural primary school physical education is severely affected by the drawbacks of many physical and mental health of students, hindered the development of personality of students. Performance in teaching methods as "filling pressure" teaching, resulting in passive acceptance of students, there is no fun at all. As a student of the initiative and actively suppressed completely, and in the content of classroom teaching is the single, students do not have the interest in learning, and the weariness sports, physical education teachers teaching the poor has become an inevitable effect.This paper start from the development of school physical education, through questionnaires and interviews to explore and analysis the current status of physical education in rural areas, come to the concept of physical education in schools of rural areas are out-date and lack of sports facilities and funds, as well as sports aspects are simple. Teachers’ understanding standards of the new curriculum and their professionalism, and leaders’ attention, such kind of aspects are restrict seriously to rural school’s physical education development. The conclusions made after the analysis are really targeted. It will play a guiding role of the promotion of sports in rural primary education reform, it will also adapt to the development of quality education and to train all-round development students.
Key words: rural primary schools ;physical education ;present status