Nursery World - Positive Relationships: Home learning

Encouraging children to practise movements that develop hand-eye
co-ordination can be done in settings and at home. Penny Tassoni
suggests what nurseries can do

For whatever reason, most parts of the UK introduce children to writing earlier than in the rest of the world. While this remains controversial, with many believing it is potentially detrimental to later development, the reality is that practitioners need to support children's hand-eye co-ordination.

This is easier said than done as, anecdotally, children are coming into early years settings with lower levels of hand function than might have been expected before. So what can early years settings do?

ROUTINES

A good starting point is to look at the daily routine in a setting. This is because movements do need to be practised and, if they are built into the fabric of the routine, children are guaranteed to have made them. While one-off activities may be fun for children and promote movements, they may not provide this regular practice.

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