Child development: Early literacy is in the bag

Swinton Moorside Children's Centre in Salford runs a group with eight children, aged six weeks to 14 months. The sessions are based on the Baby Moves kit developed by Dance in a Bag, a creative play product company run by creative therapist Sue Sutherland and educational movement specialist Olwyn Maurer. Ms Sutherland said, 'We realised how little there was for birth-to-three. We had attended exhibitions, seen research about brain development and picked up that it wasn't really filtering down to the nurseries. 'One product is Wiggle Sticks, a...