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EYFS activities - Supporting SEND… Motor skills

What can settings do to support fine and gross motor skills? Georgina Durrant reports

Motor development is often split into fine motor skills and gross motor skills. Fine motor skill activities are all about developing those tiny muscles in the hands, fingers and wrist that are needed for important tasks such as learning to write, doing up buttons and using a knife and fork. Gross motor skill activities, on the other hand, are for developing the larger, core muscles through jumping, climbing, etc. Gross motor skills are also vital for learning to write, as a child needs to be able to have postural control (stability of their core muscles) to sit comfortably and write effectively.

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