Physical Development
This area deals with:
- Co-ordination
- Agility
- Balance
- Body awareness
- Spatial awareness
- Manipulation…..
By the end of the foundation stage, most children will be able to:
move with confidence, imagination, and in safety;
move with control and co-ordination;
show awareness of space, of themselves, and of others;
recognise the importance of keeping healthy and those things which contribute to this;
recognise the changes that happen to their bodies when they are active;
use a range of small and large equipment;
travel around, under, over, and through balancing and climbing equipment;
handle tools, objects, construction and malleable materials safely and with increasing control.