Active Baby at Home is aimed at providing practitioners with the skills, knowledge and resources needed to deliver the 6-week Active Baby at Home programme for parents/carers.
The training focuses on physical development and wellbeing of the significant adult (parent/ carer/ relative/ friend) and baby, and the relationships between them; it aims to emphasises the importance of movement through movement-based play, contributing to a baby's developing physical literacy in the first year and beyond.
Learning outcomes for practitioners
On completion of the training, practitioners will be able to:
- demonstrate group facilitation skills with families and babies
- support parents in building positive physical/healthy playful relationships with their baby
- explain to parents the importance of active play and early movement patterns
- support parents to add floor-based movement into daily routines
- support parents to make positive choices for themselves and their baby contributing to physical and emotional wellbeing
- facilitate the Active Baby at Home programme to groups of parents with babies from 0-8 months.
Our Active Baby at Home Programme is for families with one or more baby between the ages of 4 weeks to 8 months and our training supports both parent/carer and baby to increase their physical activity levels and movement-based play time together. This contributes to an increase in physical activity levels, that will also boost the mental well-being of the adult. The 6-week programme provides information about physical development, and early movement patterns, such as tummy time, crossing the midline, rolling, sitting, and crawling. Each week builds on the previous week, so attending all sessions in the Active Baby at Home programme brings the most benefit.
It provides opportunities for both baby and adult to move and play with everyday objects and materials, where parents can meet other parents, as well as gain new ideas to introduce movement-based play time into everyday routines that will support a baby's physical development and well-being.
Each session is based around a theme that highlights the importance of play and how physical literacy is central to a developing baby, contributing to their physical and emotional well-being.
Topics include:
- Tummy Time
- Rolling
- Crawling
- Gross Motor Development
- Fine Motor Development
- The importance of going out and about
If you have already attended our Active Baby at Home training, please contact [email protected] for instructions on how to access exclusive resources that complement the training.