The article dwells on the issue of self-awareness development in primary schools. The paper offers theoretical and empirical researches of the issue. The empirical research is based on Newtten's method of "unfinished ideas" (modified by A.B. Orlov); Newtten's the scale of temporary settings; self-appriciation method "Tree" or "Find yourself" (modified by L.P. Ponomarenko); content-analysis of the composition "I am a human being". In conclusion the article provides pedagogical recommendations to a constructive development of self-awereness of pupils. The article was written with the support of Russian Humanitarian Scientific Foundation, project 15- 06-10726 (?).