The importance of children's physical development is given just prominence in the revised Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) as one of the three Prime areas, and it can be argued that gross motor skills are the bedrock of this.
Gross motor skills are the bigger movements that we make. They involve a co-ordinated effort of the body's large muscle groups and enable important actions such as crawling, sitting upright, walking and running. These abilities are usually acquired during infancy and early childhood and by the time children are two years old, most can do them with confidence. Children continue to build on these skills and gain better control throughout their early years and even into adulthood.
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