ABSTRACT
Movement for Learning is a daily movement programme for reception children and is delivered by class teachers in school time. The programme is expected to take approximately one school year to complete with six progressive units lasting four weeks each. The potential that Movement for Learning has to improve physical development in young children as well as helping to reduce the incidence of retained primitive reflexes is outlined earlier. The several interventions, the music and movement classes and the approach to physical development in the pre-school setting outlined earlier, illustrate a number of different ways in which Physical Development opportunities could be improved and increased for young children. Opportunities for movement and for appropriate movement at the right time in a child’s development may improve their academic success. Designing things like water walls and mud kitchens so that children have to travel, stretch and lug resources around a wide area.
