The Active Together Wales programme aims to bring children and adults together to start enjoying playing actively, enabling them to reap the benefits of a healthy lifestyle instead of seeing it as a challenge or a chore.
Each session is based on a well-known children's story and will be centred around the importance of play and how physical literacy is central to a child's development; contributing to physical and emotional well-being. Sessions are held both indoors and outdoors in community settings and using public space e.g. parks.
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Regular physical activity provides a range of physical and mental health benefits. The UK physical activity guidelines provide recommendations on the frequency, intensity, duration and types of physical activity at different life stages, starting right from the very early years:
Under-5s Infants (less than 1 year):
- Infants should be physically active several times every day in a variety of ways, including interactive floor-based activity, e.g. crawling.
- For infants not yet mobile, this includes at least 30 minutes of tummy time spread throughout the day while awake (and other movements such as reaching and grasping, pushing and pulling themselves independently, or rolling over); more is better.
NB: Tummy time may be unfamiliar to babies at first, but can be increased gradually, starting from a minute or two at a time, as the baby becomes used to it. Babies should not sleep on their tummies.
Toddlers (1-2 years):
- Toddlers should spend at least 180 minutes (3 hours) per day in a variety of physical activities at any intensity, including active and outdoor play, spread throughout the day; more is better.
Pre-schoolers (3-4 years):
- Pre-schoolers should spend at least 180 minutes (3 hours) per day in a variety of physical activities spread throughout the day, including active and outdoor play. More is better; the 180 minutes should include at least 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity.
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