Swinton Moorside Children's Centre in Salford runs a group with eightchildren, aged six weeks to 14 months. The sessions are based on theBaby Moves kit developed by Dance in a Bag, a creative play productcompany run by creative therapist Sue Sutherland and educationalmovement specialist Olwyn Maurer.
Ms Sutherland said, 'We realised how little there was forbirth-to-three. We had attended exhibitions, seen research about braindevelopment and picked up that it wasn't really filtering down to thenurseries.
'One product is Wiggle Sticks, a soft-handled stick with a nine-inchribbon. The children are mesmerised by it. We're suggesting that readingis a visual activity as well as a cognitive one. It lays down afoundation for future literacy.'
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