REDDAM EARLY LEARNING SCHOOL ST LEONARDS NEWSLETTER Principal’s Message
2nd September 2022
By Mrs Simone Cooke
Dear parents, Thank you to all our wonderful parents for joining us for our Father’s Day celebrations today. We really appreciated having so many of you join us for our sausage sizzle and obstacle course fun, the children were so excited to include you in their outdoor play and we hope you had the opportunity to meet our new parents and enjoy the celebrations. It was wonderful to see our parents’ navigating hoops, tossing bean bags and kicking soccer balls, demonstrating to our children the importance of including physical fitness into daily routines and assisting our little ones to build their gross motor skills and confidence in climbing, balancing, skipping and hopping. When it comes to physical fitness we are important role models for our children, as it is from us that they learn the importance of balancing physical activity with sedentary activities such as screen time and television. Here at Reddam our children enjoy regular unstructured and physically demanding outdoor play, which ensures that they are developing healthy habits that sustain them through life. A strong body of research indicates that providing children with regular burst of physical activity, not only improves their concentration skills but also allows the brain to recharge. Each day our teachers set up a range of gross motor activities that encourage children to be physically active in the playground.
REDDAM EARLY LEARNING SCHOOL | ST LEONARDS NEWSLETTER
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