Norms to evaluate gymnastics performance of 4–5 years children

The purpose of the study was to design and develop norms for Gymnastics of 4- 5 years children of West Bengal. There were 264 subjects who were beginners in Gymnastics already introduced to basic skills. No gender-wise grouping was done. The subjects were trained for 5 days a week, for 2 hours and for 36 weeks. After 9 months of training period, competition was conducted with an aim to collect data for the study. To test the reliability, a retest was conducted after 1 week of 15 subjects from the same group who were selected randomly. The descriptive statistics of the different parameters was found out by calculating mean and the variability was expressed by standard deviation. Correlation was analysed to test the reliability through the test-retest method. Finally, z-score of the data was calculated to develop the norms in Gymnastics for 4 to 5 years children of West Bengal by using the Z-scale.The norms for Floor Exercise of 4 to 5 years children, out of 20points designed from the z-scores of final scores as Very Good > 14.65, Good: 10.94 – 14.64, Average: 7.24 – 10.93, Below Average: 3.53 – 7.23 and Poor<3.53. The wide diversity of movements and positions makes it viable for children to develop a fund of quality sensory and motor pathways and make a positive stimulant on their psychosomatic status.