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Monkey Bar Challenge
The teachers at BestStart Stratford attended a conference about the importance of promoting active movement that included swinging, rolling and hanging upside down to support brain development. As a result we have started a Monkey Bar Challenge, to support all our children to try new techniques on the monkey bars.
After achieving each task the children are rewarded with a certificate, showing each date when they achieved each task. So many children have been motivated to completed all 8 tasks so they to get a certificate like their friends. Our older children are willing to share their monkey bar skills with others, so they learn to master the monkey bars too.
We have seen how children challenging themselves physically outside has supported their learning inside, along with gaining confidence and control over their body movements.
This Monkey Bar Challenge was shared at a transition to school meeting, with our local schools and other childcare's. One new entrance teacher has added it to her classroom routine, to strengthen big muscle development, which she has observed supported smaller muscle development, helping her young children to write and hold a pencil.