Nursery World - Work Matters: Training: Early Movement

Early years practitioners learned to understand and promote the connection between movement and brain development in babies during a special council-funded project described by Ro Lynam, Juliet Roberts and Claire Saville.

An innovative project designed to promote movement in the under-threes and its link to later learning has been hailed as a great success in Nottinghamshire.

Funded by Nottinghamshire County Council's Early Years and Childcare Services, the project, Building Active Minds, was developed by a small team of early years specialist teachers and involved the participation of ten day nurseries from across the county.

Running from September 2007 to March 2008, the aim was to improve practitioners' knowledge of the impact of movement on early brain development, and to ensure that movement became an integral part of practice in baby and toddler rooms.

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