Gross Motor

We use our outdoor areas daily. Children have a range of equipment to help develop their gross motor skills. Children have access to climbing equipment, a range of bikes, scooters and balance bikes. 

This half term the children will be practising the following skills:

• jumping

• hopping

• skipping

Fine Motor

Fine motor activities will be available for the children to take part in and develop their skills using a range of equipment including tweezers, scissors, pencils and threading beads. 

Children will learn:

• how to hold a pencil correctly

• how to sit at the table properly 

• how to use scissors to make snips in paper 

• how to form the letters correctly in their name

At the beginning of the year, the children will be learning how to make different patterns. These patterns include:

• vertical lines

• horizontal lines

• crosses

• squares 

• triangles 

• circles 

Children will also learn how to write the letters of the alphabet during their daily 'Little Wandle' handwriting sessions. Each day your child will learn a new phoneme and will learn a new formation phrase to help them understand how to form each letter.