The Health and Well-being Area of Learning and Experience is described as being physical literacy informed. Partneriaeth’s lead for this Area, Sophie Flood, identified that there was a professional learning need for practitioners in schools.

Sophie collaborated with Rachel Hellier, Lead for Health and Well-being at St Thomas Community Primary School to develop a two day training programme aimed at developing teaching practices which enable learners to become lifelong movers, particularly in the classroom setting. The sessions were developed and designed to provide practical opportunities to enhance practitioners’ approaches to physical literacy and are suitable for any teacher within the primary sector.

Day one focusses on what physical literacy is and how to embed it into Curriculum for Wales. During the day, participants are introduced to the importance of physical literacy in early childhood and take part in a range of physical activities that provide ways to ensure physical literacy is brought into the classroom and is an integral part of the school day. Participants complete an action plan to implement back in their schools.  During the second day, participants gave feedback from their action plans, look at data-informed planning and plan how to implement physical literacy throughout the whole school.