Course Content

  1. 1

    • Introduction
  2. 2

    • Movement Observation Structures
  3. 3

    • Intro to Halfway Play

    • Rocking and Reaching

    • Sitting and Toppling

    • Crawling

    • Bum Shuffling

    • Bear Walking

    • Clambering and Climbing

    • Coming up to vertical

    • Reflecting on transition

    • Squatting

  4. 4

    • Upright checklists

    • Five-part framework

    • Halfway and Upright Play Quiz

    • Your thoughts

Course Tutor

Penny Greenland

Penny has been teaching across the early years sector for thirty-five years. In 1998 she set up the action-research project which led to the creation of Developmental Movement Play and has continued to research and develop the approach ever since. She is author of Hopping Home Backwards: body intelligence and movement play and a contributor to several early years text books about physical development.

Valuing halfway play

Halfway play has an important role to play in building physical power, agency and confidence. Value and support it fully to maximise children’s ability to develop a genuinely confident, grounded physicality.

Early identification and support

Use your growing understanding of developmental movement to plan early and targeted support for children who are not meeting the milestones as you would hope.

Developmental movement

Design learning environments and opportunities that continue to value sensory play, floor play and halfway play as part of the everyday learning culture throughout the early years - not just as a stepping stone to upright.

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