Room for manoeuvre

In response to the feature about children's physical skills ('Action plans', 1 September), I would like to tell you about how we encourage them. At our Sure Start Children's Centre we are involved in different projects, one of which focuses on developmental movement play. We have introduced a movement area to encourage children to move and give them the opportunity to use their bodies, visiting innate movement patterns that all babies and young children are meant to do. The movement area is a soft, safe, comfortable area and is accessible to the children throughout their time at nursery.