Nursery World - Learning & Development: Physical Development

Can daily sessions of focused physical activities help children
develop the gross and fine motor skills they need to become confident
writers? Helen Chilton reports on her school's progress.

The amount of time that children now spend playing on electronic gadgets is raising concerns about their fine motor skills, and ability to write. For children to master the skill of pencil control, they first need to be able to use their hands independently and to keep their body still while moving their hand - all skills that depend on a very young child developing core strength and stability.

Here at Littletown Junior, Infant and Nursery, West Yorkshire, most of our Foundation Stage children - according to our latest Ofsted report - are making 'outstanding progress', but throughout the school progress in writing is, Ofsted says, 'not as fast as in reading and mathematics'.

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