Nursery World - Enabling Environments: Movers

What the Movement Environment Rating Scale (MOVERS) for two- to six-year-olds provision aims to achieve. By its co-author, Carol Archer

Physical activity is often overlooked in early years settings, or seen through the narrow lens of whether children play outdoors. Now settings can draw on the Movement Environment Rating Scale (MOVERS) to raise the quality of their environment and pedagogy in this vital area of young children’s development.

The MOVERS is about children moving and playing, being physically active, and thriving in the world of the child, and provides settings with the tools to achieve this by self-assessing their current practice, identifying areas for improvement and planning for professional development.

Significantly, the scale incorporates critical thinking, so offering a wider perspective of children’s engagement in this Prime curriculum area and enabling practitioners to see the crucial links between cognitive and physical development.

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