The psychomotor skill helps improve coordination, balance, spatial perception and self-control, among others. On one hand, it gives the students some healthy habits and a set of values with which they will grow and this links directly with school performance and behaviour. On the other hand, students see their self-esteem and self-confidence increase.

Small children, through games and movement, can understand how their body works and the relationship they have in the world. All of these are achieved thanks to the fact that children have fun while doing so. Moreover, speech and communication in general are also improved seeing as how it implies the coordination between body and mind.

Sessions are structured in three different parts: we wake up our body, we take part in different activities and we calm down. This process is important because the main objective is that students should be aware of themselves through movement, relaxation, reflection and self-control and more importantly, it is done while having fun.

The social framework, within the group class, makes a great opportunity to work on values such as respect, effort, personal growth, comprehension, empathy and help. It also helps to unite the feeling of belonging to their class.

It is important to highlight that this workshop is taught in English. By doing so, students incorporate new vocabulary and grammatical structures in a natural and fun way through games and movement.

We always start the class warming up our bodies. So, we all make a circle and with the rhythm of the music, we begin to name different parts of the body to warm up. Sometimes, after warming up the body we listen to a song that tells us to do different actions: run, jump, dance around the class, move like animals, etc. Once we finish with the warm-up, it’s time for the main activity!

In this workshop, we practise how to get around jumping with one or two legs, walking slowly, going around the class in tiptoes, etc. We also have different materials such as balls, mats, stairs, hoops, etc. that we use in these sessions.

In this workshop there is always time to play fun games since, through them, we learn many things: follow the rules, take care of the materials we use, take care of our classmates, learn to lose and to win, etc.

Once we finish and before going back to our class, it is time to relax. In order to do so, we always put some relaxing music on and we lay on the floor with our eyes closed. Sometimes, we find a classmate and we do massages to each other and sometimes we even use small balls to do the massages. Once the relaxing time is over, they are ready to go on with their day!