The article presents results of using health protection technologies in the educational process of rural schools. Fitness and health recreation events, which are to support the optimal level of motion activity of children, contribute to the process of forming and saving children's health in the educational process. The research makes the follow-up assessment of health condition of schoolchildren of 1-6 grades, which has been monitored for three years. As a result, most of schoolchildren were referred to the second health group. The number of children, referred to the second health group, remained almost unchangeable in a span of seven years. The number of schoolchildren, who were referred to the first health group, was consistently decreasing over the period of six years. For the examined children, the most common diseases were gastrointestinal tract, cardiovascular system and disorders of the musculoskeletal system. Skin, genitourinary system diseases occur rarely. Using health protection technologies contributed to the burden reduction of diseases of the endocrine, musculoskeletal systems. A slight decrease in cardiovascular system diseases is marked as well. In a span of two years of observation, the number of children, having retarded physical development, was decreasing. Improvement of the motion activity level contributed to the decrease in cases of violations of body posture in the survey sample of children. Active breaks, which were introduced at schools, and involving schoolchildren in sports activities allowed decreasing the burden of the cardiovascular and musculoskeletal system. (c) 2018 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK