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Enabling Environments: Physical Development - It's all go

Children's favourite activities are encouraged by Christina Saville, Maryanne Neil, Linsey Fulton and Jacqueline Davis.

Dance, bikes and outings to the woods emerged as clear favourites with our children at Little Treasures private day nursery in Cumbernauld and have become key elements in our efforts to promote children's physical development and well-being.

We believe that health and well-being are central to developing children's learning, which is why we continuously seek ways to challenge the children. These experiences have most definitely helped support them in becoming 'successful learners', 'confident individuals', 'responsible citizens' and 'effective contributors' - the four capacities in Scotland's Curriculum for Excellence.

We surveyed our children's favourite activities through a questionnaire that we asked parents to complete with the children at home, and then acted on the findings.

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