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Physical Development is about developing and improving the skills, co-ordination, control, manipulation and movement. It also helps children gain confidence in their physical abilities, enables them to feel the positive benefits of being healthier and active and may help them develop a positive sense of well being. Outside at UUniversity of Cumbria Pre-School Centre, Lancaster

Programme of Work

The programme will include some or all of the following types of activity:

Movement:

  • Group games involving running, jumping and hopping.
  • Group games involving movement followed by stopping.
  • Moving to music.
  • Balancing activities and games.
  • Play on a range of landscapes (e.g. flat/hilly) and surfaces (e.g. grass/sand).

Sense of Space:

  • Role play activities giving children the opportunity to create pathways.
  • Giving the children the opportunity to create their own spaces (e.g. tent from blankets).
  • Group games that involve following or imitating.
  • Encourage games and activities that involve sharing resources with other children.
  • Discussions about body parts and bodily activity.
  • Singing action songs (e.g. Head, shoulders, knees and toes).

Health and Bodily Awareness

  • Discussions about keeping safe, fit and healthy.
  • Discussions about eating a healthy diet.
  • Encouraging children to make decisions by choosing between different types of food.
  • Making and eating food from a range of cultures that can form part of a healthy diet.
  • Providing opportunities for children to talk about health issues.

Using Equipment:

  • Outdoor play using a variety of equipment e.g. slides, climbing frames, trampolines.
  • Play with wheeled toys e.g. push-along trucks, tricycles, bicycles.
  • Practising kicking, throwing and catching large and small balls.

Using Tools and Materials:

  • Sand play.
  • Water play.
  • Modelling with playdough and clay.
  • Painting, drawing and colouring.
  • Peg games and jigsaws.
  • Threading.
  • Cutting with scissors.
  • Dressing-up, buttoning clothes, doing up zips, etc.
  • Dressing of dolls.
  • Use of small construction toys (duplo, stickle bricks etc).
  • Making ‘junk’ models.
  • ‘Reading’ books - page turning.
  • ‘Writing’ with pencils and crayons.
  • Collage and other pasting activities.
  • Use of the computer keyboard.

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