Movement is an integral part of life from the moment of conception, and a child's experience of movement will play a pivotal part in shaping their personality, feelings and achievements. Learning is not just about reading, writing and maths but these are higher abilities that are built upon the integrity of the relationship between brain and body.
This three-hour course is aimed at children following on from the first 3 years, supporting children and providing practitioners with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to support children to be 'fully physical' (Greenland, 2009) in the curriculum for Wales.
The training looks into physical development, as one of the five developmental pathways of the curriculum for funded non-maintained settings. It examines what it means to provide pedagogical opportunities for physical literacy in the curriculum and reflect on the opportunities that adults in early years setting and the setting's community can access to support children's own unique physical development and physical literacy.
There will be opportunities for practitioners to analyse evidence to show why being fully physical matters for all children as we develop the four purposes of the curriculum. It aims to assess the elements that are required for children to create a secure sense of their own body in their own unique relationships to the curriculum, and the environment and the people and materials.
Topics:
- Neurophysiological development, physical development, and the curriculum
- Why pedagogical opportunities for physical literacy matter in the curriculum
- Motor development and progression
- Movement patterns, movement fascinations, schemas, and spontaneous movement play indoors and outside and an examination of the observation and assessment of these
- The importance of adult aspirations for children's movements
- The importance in the development of practitioner confidence in providing for, spontaneous movement and play in the curriculum
- A playful movement environment, 5-a-day movement experiences, and slow and sustained and down-regulating movement experiences
- Active singing, storytelling, and creative play with materials.
If you have already attended our Active Child training, please contact [email protected] for instructions on how to access exclusive resources that complement the training