The ongoing socio-economic transformations in society and sci­ence education actualise the modern educational policy in the field of personality formation of students who are capable of self-development and self-realisation.  In these conditions, the primary school provides an integral system of knowledge, skills, and experience of independent activity and personal responsibility of students. The article deals with the problem of develop­ment of self-esteem in primary school children.

Keywords: primary  school children,  educational  activities,  self-assessment,  relation­
ship, pedagogical condition.