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  Planning and resourcing
Movement and Space
 
  • Plan target throwing, rolling, kicking and catching games.
  • Plan games where children can use skills in different ways, such as hopping backwards and galloping sideways.
  • Provide open-ended resources for large-scale building.
  • Use whole-body action rhymes such as 'Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes'.
  • Provide time and space to enjoy energetic play daily, either indoors or outdoors, visiting parks if other spaces are limited.
  • Ensure children know the rules for being safe in different spaces.
  • Regularly check resources for safety, for example, ensuring that fabric is clean and that planks are free from splinters and rough edges.
  • Provide a range of equipment at different levels, such as an overhead ladder, a tunnel, a bench and a mat.
  • Provide large portable equipment that children can move about safely and cooperatively to create their own structures.
  • Plan imaginative, active experiences, such as 'Going on a bear hunt'. Help them remember the actions of the story (We're Going on a Bear Hunt   by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury) and think about the different ways of moving and ways of avoiding bumping into each other.
Health and Bodily Awareness
 
  • Ensure that children who get out of breath will have time to recover.
  • Place water containers where children can find them easily and get a drink when they need one.
  • Plan opportunities, particularly after exercise, for children to talk about how their bodies feel.
Using Equipment and Materials
 
  • Provide a range of left-handed tools, especially left-handed scissors, for children who need them.
  • Provide a wide range of materials, such as clay, that encourage manipulation.
  • Offer different tools, techniques or materials when the available tools are inadequate to achieve the desired effects.
  • Provide tweezers, tongs and small scoops for use in play and investigation.
  • Provide a range of construction toys of different sizes, made of wood, rubber or plastic, that fix together in a variety of ways, for example by twisting, pushing, slotting or magnetism.