Teach Early Years Magazine

Hello, Think of young children and the images
conjured in your mind’s eye are likely to
feature diminutive balls of boundless
energy, forever on the go once they’ve
mastered the ability to walk, then run.
Increasingly, though, more sedentary habits
are taking hold – and that’s bad news when it
comes to health and physical development. It’s
a topic several of our contributors address in this issue: Dr
Leanne Jaye sets out the vital importance of fundamental
movement skills to lifelong health in her article (page 40),
while also highlighting worrying statistics about how little time
some children are active each day. And in her piece on healthy
food, Sal McKeown shares the view of one provider that lack
of exercise is the biggest cause of the obesity crisis (page 20).