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Bodycare Tots

The Southend United Bodycare programme has been developed to support the Early Years Foundation Stage Education Programme – Physical Development, Movement & Space, Health & Body Awareness, Using equipment & materials.


Bodycare Tots will educate children to:

  • Move with confidence, imagination and in safety.
  • Mobility – basic motor skills.
  • Move with control and coordination.
  • Travel safely in different directions.
  • Show awareness of space, of themselves and of others.
  • Recognise the importance of keeping healthy.
  • Recognise the changes that happen to their bodies when they active.
  • Use a range of small and large equipment with increasing control.
 
Children learn through being active and importantly having fun. Physical development helps children build confidence, enables them to feel the positive benefits of being healthy & active and helps to safeguard health and well-being throughout life.