Physical Development is an important area of the Reception curriculum. 

We spend a lot of time developing fine and gross motor skills to help the children build the strength in their finger and arm muscles to help them to write. 

Please look at the attachment below for ideas of activities you can do at home. 

In class we carefully plan activities for the children to access in their learning time to help them strengthen their fingers, hands and wrists ready for writing. Examples of just some of these activities can be seen in the photos below. 

We also enjoy whole class carpet activities such as dough disco! Please see the link for an example of this on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K-CQrjI0uY

During our daily phonics sessions we learn to write letters in the non-cursive style of handwriting.