Fine Motor Skills ELG: Assessing Progress

Helen Battelley
Early childhood consultant and trainer

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46 min

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As part of a series of webinars aimed at providing you with in-depth expert insight into the early years learning goals (ELGs), this webinar will explore the fine motor ELG. The webinar will identify the criteria that this ELG sets out, offering practical guidance on recognising children’s current abilities against the criteria and how practitioners can support them further by enriching provision.
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For: Teachers, teaching assistants, nursery managers, nursery practitioners 

Aim: As part of a series of webinars aimed at providing you with in-depth expert insight into the early years learning goals (ELGs), this webinar will explore the fine motor ELG. The webinar will identify the criteria that this ELG sets out, offering practical guidance on recognising children’s current abilities against the criteria and how practitioners can support them further by enriching provision. 

Why this webinar’s important: Early learning goals, as set out by the EYFS statutory framework, identify “the level of development children should be expected to have reached by the end of the EYFS”. As such, EYFS practitioners must understand the purpose and expectations of each ELG and identify ways to support and assess the children in their setting in relation to these goals.

Outcome 1:

Identifying the criteria set out by the early years framework’s fine motor early learning goal

Outcome 2:

Exploring how a rich and broad curriculum can be implemented in early years settings to support development

Outcome 3:

Considering ways in which children’s progress against the goal can be observed and evaluated

Outcome 4:

Exploring what the term “expected” may look like in different situations and in relation to different children

Outcome 5:

Understanding practical steps that can be taken to enrich provision, practice and pedagogy in support of fine motor

Helen Battelley

Helen is an internationally renowned consultant, trainer, author, and speaker in physical activity/movement in early education with an MA in Early Childhood Physical Activity and Movement Studies. She lectures at five universities and is an approved provider for the UK’s Association for Physical Education (AfPE) and a member of the Chartered Association for Teachers. She is chair of the National Early Years Active Start Partnership (NEYASP), which takes positive action to inform and support policy makers and inspection bodies to ensure the sector is taking an evidence-informed approach and valuing the place of physical development in a child’s life. 

Helen’s consultancy takes her all over the world, promoting movement within the curriculum and framework and raising confidence in the areas of movement, play, and physical activity. She supports educators to develop activities and works with coaches and PE leads to create schemes of work and methodology suited to young children. 

She was the lead physical development advisor on Change4life's 10 Minute Shake Up Cards (UK) and in 2021 she developed a Physical Phonics programme for The National Literacy Trust, which will be rolled out across the UK in the academic year 2024/25. Her training style is energetic, passionate, and highly motivational, and she is respected globally for her contribution to raising the profile of early years physical activity and reducing sedentary behaviours.

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