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Abstract: Nowadays, the problem of development of physical education of pupils of schools for blind and visually impaired children and improvement of its effectiveness in the system of school learning in the light of secondary education reform becomes especially important. The problem of raising physical activity of pupils with severe impairments of eyesight is urgent and attracts a lot of attention. In this sense, outdoor games can be used as a compensatory way of influencing the locomotor system and all aspects of the blind child’s personality. With blind children, game as a form of activity develops later than it does with normally sighted children of the same age. That is why it is vitally important to activate the locomotor system of blind junior schoolchildren on the basis of development and perfection of the processes of perception. It is necessary to solve the problem of application of outdoor games and game exercises to raise the moving activity of junior schoolchildren with severe impairments of eyesight. Taking into account modern conceptions about the consequences of hypokinesia it is necessary to pay special attention to the locomotor content of games, actions with objects and their pedagogical and correctional influence upon the child’s movement and work out the corresponding system of methods. In the course of the described pedagogical experiment and analysis of game activity of pupils with severe impairments of eyesight, the authors created a classification of outdoor games (based on walking and running). The article describes the conditions guaranteeing their effective usage at physical training lessons for blind and visually impaired junior schoolchildren. It also deals with the vital problem of training visually impaired children to passing qualifications in the framework of the GTO complex for children with special educational needs.