Email: [email protected] Website: www.brightfutureseducation.co.uk 0800 1777 199 Physical Literacy ‘High quality and embedded physical education systematically develops physical competence, confidence and fluency so that children are able to move to learn efficiently, effectively and safely. They understand fundamentally what they are doing, how they are doing this and why. They learn through ‘doing’. The outcome – physical literacy’ Physical Literacy is as important to a child’s education and development as numeracy and literacy. It forms the basis of education. We need to be body smart, eye track, eye fix, manipulate and coordinate pens, pencils and other pieces of equipment in order to access reading, writing, mathematics and other curriculum areas. Physical literacy has 3 main components: Physical Fluency is the development of fundamental movement skills through a series of core and purposeful actions, that develop “body smart” movements, develop core strength, spatial awareness and rhythm. This is the key that opens the door to Emotional Fluency. Emotional Intelligence relates to a child interpersonal and intrapersonal skills and how well they use these can be described as their emotional fluency; their alertness, ‘with-it-ness’ and their ‘response – ability’. This can be defined as their ability to take into account their environment; including themselves, other people and through looking, listening, thinking, feeling and kinaesthetic feedback; to choose the positive, appropriate behaviours and actions, at the right time at the right place to given situations. This has a proportional relationship to Cognitive Competence. Cognitive Competence relates to a child’s number, word and language fluency, metacognition, thinking skills. Higher levels of cognitive fluency lead to a child’s ability to independently learn and allow them to access higher levels of creativity. Physical fluency opens the door to developing emotional fluency, this in turn has a proportional relationship to a child’s cognitive competence and so improving their academic performance. Jo Wright (Bright Futures Education Limited) 1

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Email: [email protected] Website: www.brightfutureseducation.co.uk 0800 1777 199

Physical Literacy

‘High quality and embedded physical education systematically develops physical competence, confidence and fluency so that children are able to move to learn efficiently, effectively and

safely. They understand fundamentally what they are doing, how they are doing this and why. They learn through ‘doing’. The outcome – physical literacy’

Physical Literacy is as important to a child’s education and development as numeracy and literacy. It forms the basis of education. We need to be body smart, eye track, eye fix, manipulate and coordinate pens, pencils and other pieces of equipment in order to access reading, writing, mathematics and other curriculum areas.

Physical literacy has 3 main components:

Physical Fluency is the development of fundamental movement skills through a series of core and purposeful actions, that develop “body smart” movements, develop core strength, spatial awareness and rhythm. This is the key that opens the door to Emotional Fluency.

Emotional Intelligence relates to a child interpersonal and intrapersonal skills and how well they use these can be described as their emotional fluency; their alertness, ‘with-it-ness’ and their ‘response – ability’. This can be defined as their ability to take into account their environment; including themselves, other people and through looking, listening, thinking, feeling and kinaesthetic feedback; to choose the positive, appropriate behaviours and actions, at the right time at the right place to given situations. This has a proportional relationship to Cognitive Competence.

Cognitive Competence relates to a child’s number, word and language fluency, metacognition, thinking skills. Higher levels of cognitive fluency lead to a child’s ability to independently learn and allow them to access higher levels of creativity.

Physical fluency opens the door to developing emotional fluency, this in turn has a proportional relationship to a child’s cognitive competence and so improving their academic performance.

Jo Wright (Bright Futures Education Limited)