Active Child for Movement Champions

Active Child is all about the development of movement, learning readiness and play – 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.
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Tuesday, 21 October, 2025 - 18:00 to 20:00

Venue: 

Online

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 two-hour online 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 include:
  • 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.
On completion of the training, practitioners will be able to:
  • Summarise why movement and physical literacy matter in the development of curriculum for Wales for children in the early years
  • Outline factors in curriculum development that may support or compromise children in the early years to move, and to be physically active
  • Develop a range of engaging movement experiences for children in the early years that support physical development, physical literacy, and physical activity across the curriculum for Wales.

This exclusive FREE training for all Early Years Wales Movement Champions will help you create rich, active learning experiences. Strengthen your practice, enhance your setting's movement opportunities, and support every child's physical development.

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Early Years Wales membership number required

£5 for Early Years Wales Members | Free for Early Years Wales Movement Champions. 

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Language

This event will be delivered through the medium of English. If you require an English – Welsh interpretation service* please indicate your preferred language on the booking form.

*Please note, an interpretation service will only be available when at least 20% of attendees have indicated they require one.
 

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