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2023-11-07T00:00:00
2023-03-07T08:45:00
- 2023-03-07T09:30:00
Registration, refreshments and exhibitor viewing
2023-03-07T09:30:00
- 2023-01-25T09:40:00
Chair’s welcome
2023-03-07T09:40:00
- 2023-03-07T10:30:00
OPENING KEYNOTE: What children’s bodies and brains need

An overview of why physical development is one of the prime areas of learning and how it underpins children’s learning and development from birth. At a time when children are becoming increasingly sedentary, Sally Goddard Blythe shares her decades of neuro-physiological research to demonstrate how children’s bodies and minds work together and why this underpins their learning and development. This session will explore:
• Children’s in-built biological need to move and challenge their bodies in different ways
• How varied aspects of movement support children’s motor development - from eye movements to hand control
• The link between physical development and development of emotional security
• How to ensure children have enabling environments that are developmentally appropriate for their physical needs
• Supporting a child to be ‘well balanced’ and how this impacts on their school readiness

Speaker
Sally Goddard Blythe
Author, Director
Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology
2023-03-07T10:30:00
- 2023-03-07T11:00:00
Getting everyone moving: some top tips

How does the way practitioners feel about moving and being active impact their daily practice? Dr Lala Manners discusses how what is good for children is also good for adults and shares top tips for everyday moving together.

Speaker
Dr Lala Manners
Director
ActiveMatters
2023-03-07T11:00:00
- 2023-03-07T11:20:00
Refreshments and exhibitor viewing

Your chance to network and view our exhibition of leading early years suppliers

2023-03-07T11:20:00
- 2023-03-07T12:00:00
Physical development in under threes

Julia Manning-Morton considers the complexity of physical development in the first three years of life and introduces the Piklerian idea of naturally unfolding motor development. She discusses physical development as a central component of the web of development and the relationship between infants’ experiences of movement, touch and being held, and their emergent self-concept.
She will also focus on environments, resources and practices that support the physical development of babies and toddlers and identify those that inhibit free movement, such as ‘containerisation’ and ‘tummy time’.

Speaker
Julia Manning-Morton
Independent Early Years Consultant, Trainer and Author

Workshops (choose A, B or C)

2023-03-31T12:00:00
- 2023-03-31T13:00:00
A. Embodied learning: bringing movement play indoors
None

Hear about the value of indoor Movement Play Areas – places for children to draw upon their body intelligence alongside their cognitive intelligence - and look at creating one in your own setting to enable child-led, spontaneous free flow movement play to become a key part of the learning environment. This session will explore:
• the merits of bringing movement play indoors when you have a fabulous outdoor area
 • what kinds of learning happen there and what that learning looks like
• ways to set up this space to support new physical development practice
• the roles adults can take to create and support the Area to promote maximum learning, health and happiness

Speakers
Penny Greenland
Director
Jabadao
Catherine Wilks
Trainer and Project Practitioner
Jabadao
2023-03-31T12:00:00
- 2023-03-31T13:00:00
B. Developing your physical development practice
None

Get moving in this workshop that will provide ideas and tools to help you confidently support children to develop their fundamental early years skills - including balance, co-ordination and spatial awareness - through engaging everyday activities that you can take back to your setting.

Speaker
Tania Swift
Director
B Inspired
2023-03-31T12:00:00
- 2023-03-31T13:00:00
C. Supporting self-initiated free movement
None

This interactive workshop will explore Emmi Pikler’s ideas about the importance of self-initiated free movement for the natural progression of physical development in infants and young children. Using guided experiential activity based on the work of Ute Strub - a student then colleague of Emmi Pikler – delegates can regain awareness of their own movement patterns and so gain greater insight into the child’s experience. This benefits us in better understanding and nurturing the physical unfolding of babies and young children.

Speakers
Rachel Tapping
Chair
Pikler UK Association
Karolina Joiner
Management Committee Member / Former Nursery Owner
Pikler UK
2023-03-07T13:00:00
- 2023-03-07T14:00:00
Lunch and exhibitor viewing
Break

Good food and networking

2023-07-12T14:00:00
- 2023-07-12T14:30:00
Using the MOVERS scale to measure and enhance the quality of physical development
None

The physical foundations for learning need to be secure to ensure young children are equipped to cope with the demands of later, more formal classroom learning with balance, posture and coordination all playing an important role. Professor Iram Siraj highlights the importance of physical development and its connection to other domains of learning: cognitive and social-emotional. She introduces delegates to the MOVERS scale, a method of measuring the quality of environment and pedagogy in which young children are encouraged to move and be physically active. She also considers how the MOVERS scale can be used to improve the quality of teaching and learning for young children.

Speaker
Iram Siraj
Professor of Child Development and Education at the Department of Education
University of Oxford
2023-07-12T14:30:00
- 2023-07-12T15:00:00
CASE STUDY: Maximising physical development outdoors
None

Hear how practitioners at Brougham Street Nursery School use responsive planning to utilise their small but valuable outdoor learning environment to support children’s physical development. Their outdoor space is limited, but they ensure their development opportunities are not - whether that’s through active play at Forest School, embracing a trajectory schema by installing a basketball hoop, or by being an effective contributor in their local community.

Speakers
Dr Alison Stewart
Headteacher
Brougham Street Nursery School, Skipton, North Yorkshire
Harris Payne
Brougham Street Nursery School, Skipton, North Yorkshire
Room Leader
2023-03-07T15:00:00
- 2023-03-07T15:20:00
Refreshments and exhibitor viewing
Break

Your chance to network and view our exhibition of leading early years suppliers

2023-03-31T15:20:00
- 2023-03-31T15:50:00
CASE STUDY: Embracing rough and tumble play
None

Discover how staff at Hargrave Park School successfully and safely adopted rough and tumble play, and how it had a positive impact on children’s physical and literacy skills.

Speakers
Carla Jones
Assistant Headteacher EYFS and KS1
Hargrave Park School, North London
Rachna Joshi
Early Childhood Teacher and Consultant
2023-07-12T15:50:00
- 2023-07-12T16:25:00
CLOSING KEYNOTE Motion and emotion: exploring grief and loss through movement play and dance
Presentation

Recent times have made us more aware of the need to support children with the difficult emotions surrounding grief and loss through death and bereavement. But these topics are always relevant for children – particularly when they are dealing with big emotions around separation and transition - which are not unlike the feelings experienced by adults when they are grieving the loss of a loved one. This session will look at some of the ways we can use movement play, music and dance to ‘tune into’ children’s emotions, enabling them to safely explore difficult feelings and be supported through them.

Speaker
Anne O’Connor
Independent Early Years Consultant
2023-07-12T16:25:00
- 2023-06-30T16:30:00
Sum-up and close of conference
None
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