Course AKP600 (Duration 2 days 9.00 am to 3.00 pm)
Action Kids Physical Development with Fun Course
for Pre-school Practitioners
 Course Objectives:
- develop knowledge, understanding and confidence in how to deliver
over 600 Physical Development with fun activities for children
aged 2 - 5 years
- to understand how to adjust or extend activities to meet the
needs and capabilities of individual children
- to experience a wide range of practical movement with fun
and music activities using a variety of teaching and learning
strategies
- to become aware of linked issues and approaches in certain
movement programmes
This is a very full and comprehensive
course for practitioners working in the Foundation Stage. Active
and thought-provoking
it stimulates practitioners to use a more interesting
and fun approach
to physical development and guides recognition of individual
children who experience certain difficulties. Practitioners are guided through several different types of activities
and are encouraged to use their creativity and a wide range of
teaching and learning strategies.
The Course Contains:
- Understanding core principles of movement
- How to develop "Action
Kids Physical Development with Fun" activities
- Warm ups
and calming-down activities
- Activities which encourage and
develop spatial awareness
- Activities leading to games
- Activities leading to gymnastics
- Activities leading to dance
- Extending and modifying activities
and having appropriate extensions
- Accessing the Early Learning
Goals through a physical development approach
- Principles for
balanced physical development
The course explores how to progress and develop co-ordination,
balance, mobility, spatial awareness and manipulative
and aiming skills. It also encourages different
and imaginative ways of
enhancing and integrating all the other areas
of learning through physical
development. Participants need to wear clothing suitable for practical activity
during this course. Lunch and refreshments are included.
Each participant on the course is provided with two comprehensive
Action Kids teaching manuals for Foundation Stage Physical Development
with Fun, which provide over 600 activities and 79 pieces of music
(click to view the Action Kids
500 and Action Kids 121 manuals).
Target Audience:
- Reception Teachers, Nursery Teachers, Day Nursery Workers, Classroom
Assistants and Nannies, Childminders and Pre-school Playgroup Leaders.
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