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Move & Learn CIC was created to transform how people learn, teach, and train by embedding purposeful movement into learning environments. It grew out of the work and insights of experienced educators who recognised that traditional schooling often keeps children sitting still - even though research and practice show that physical activity supports cognitive development, wellbeing and engagement in learning.
Championing physically active learning:
The core idea behind Move & Learn is that movement isn’t just good for health - it can enhance learning itself. Integrating movement into lessons (beyond physical education) helps make learning more engaging and effective.
Addressing sedentary education culture:
Many classrooms remain highly sedentary, despite evidence that this can negatively affect pupils’ physical, cognitive and emotional wellbeing. We seek to shift that culture by offering training, resources and frameworks to help teachers embed purposeful movement into everyday teaching.
Supporting schools and educators:
We work - and play - with school communities and other groups to show how movement can be used purposefully to support learning outcomes - not as an add-on, but as part of pedagogy and curriculum design.
Our mission reflects a broader belief that learning should be active, engaging and connected to children’s bodies and experiences, and that doing so can benefit both health and academic outcomes across communities
Unlike a clickbait headline in a national UK newspaper, we do not encourage children to run around the classroom.
We work with school leaders, middle leaders and teachers to bring about genuing behaviour change. We do so by looking at 4 modules:
Culture & Ethos
Approaches
Resources
Environments
We help schools adjust their culture, environments and teaching approaches. This includes training for teachers on embedding movement naturally throughout the school day and adapting learning spaces so that movement opportunities are built into daily routines.
We provide:
professional development and mentoring for staff in physically active learning pedagogy;
structured training programmes for trainee teachers and school leadership teams;
planning guides, idea banks and implementation strategies;
lesson ideas for teachers to plan active lessons in maths, literacy and other subjects.
Our mantra is 'Small Steps Make the Biggest Difference.'
Key moments:
1) Establishing our core values and devising 'Our Why'.
2) Working with a small number of schools in the first instance - establishing case studies c/o funding from Yorkshire Sport Foundation (YSF).
3) Continuing with one school as a hub school - a Centre of Excellence for Physically Active Learning (PAL).
4) Establishing links with Leeds Beckett University and other global researchers.
5) Releasing a book via Crown House Publishing.
6) Being commissioned by active partnerships such as Together an Active Future to create bespoke middle leader programmes.
7) Working with Initial Teacher Training (ITT) providers to create and lead modules around PAL and embodied cognition, thus allowing trainee teachers opportunities to explore and introduce Move & Learn approaches into their settings.
8) Speaking at conferences (international, national and regional).
9) Leading workshops (face to face and online).
In certain parts of the UK, children go straight from school, where they sit down, to Madrassa(h) to learn Arabic and the Qur'an. These sessions tend to be for 90 minutes where they sit, sit, sit. We were approached by forward thinking Madrassa(h) leaders to co-create Move & Learn approaches that their 'teachers' could incorporate into lessons in which children learn Arabic and the Qur'an.
We know that behaviour change takes time and many people trust the messenger before the message. With this in mind, we worked with young Muslims (male and female) to create programmes that were user-friendly and purposeful.
In a way, we wanted to make ourselves redundant, empowering others to take moving and learning to the next level within their communities.
For examples of impact, visit:
https://taaf.co.uk/workstreams/active-madrassah/
https://faithincommunities.co.uk/index.php/activefaithsettings/
We have been approached by other organisations such as law firms to co-develop training programmes for their staff and clients. Rather than simply staring at a screen and listening to a trainer, they are now using Move & Learn approaches to deliver traiing more effectively and with greater engagement.
Visit our website - https://moveandlearn.co.uk/.
Check out the case studies - https://moveandlearn.co.uk/case-studies.
Read the book - https://www.crownhouse.co.uk/how-to-move-learn.
Contact us to schedule a call or arrange a visit to a school to see Moving AND Learning in action...
Email: hello@moveandlearn.co.uk
Call: +447806621508
hello@moveandlearn.co.uk
+44 7806621508
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