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Use the materials and support in this area to plan ways in which your children can be active and interactive to improve their skills of coordination, control, manipulation and movement. Enable them to use all their senses to learn about the world around them.

Teach the importance of healthy eating and physical activity through this highly important area of the EYFS framework. For a pdf version of these tables, download a copy of the Practice guidance.

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