Photograph at Coombes School, Reading by Teri Pengilley.
Just as children learn to play and play to learn, they learn to move and learn through movement. Not only do they need to learn by doing through child-initiated activities; they also need to be taught, hence the movement session.
Two or three times a week children need a planned movement session, in a programme of lessons across a term and a year. In this series, I will offer ideas for movement sessions under the headings below, and you can add to and develop the ideas to make a series of lessons to cover three or four weeks and so build up a package that can run throughout the year:
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