The children have been enjoying our new outdoor area.
Did you know that in order to develop perfect coordination of body and brain, children need to do lots of actions in which their muscles encounter resistance such as pushing, pulling, stretching and carrying?
Children like to hang from bars, to dig and rake and to feel tension in their limbs. Activities which allow for this are skipping, climbing, pedalling bicycles and pushing wheelbarrows. We intend to do lots of these over the year.
Significantly, movement is actually what allows children to sit still!
