ABSTRACT
The EYFS requires practitioners to encourage the development of children’s ‘co-ordination, control, manipulation and movement’ skills and to be ‘active and interactive’.They must be ‘supported in using all their senses’ and begin to understand the importance of ‘physical activity for health’. Alongside this, they need to be helped to ‘make healthy choices in relation to food’.43 This chapter will look at these areas, together with the theory that underpins both these requirements and the ways in which young children’s bodies usually develop.
