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Early Years

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Early Years

Early Years Dance Training in Greater Manchester 

Delivered in partnership with NHS Greater Manchester and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Early Moves supports early years practitioners to build confidence and skills in leading creative dance sessions. The programme helps young children develop physically, socially and emotionally through movement and play. 

Right now, 17 nurseries across Greater Manchester are running weekly dance sessions—reaching over 250 children. We’ve started in Greater Manchester and are now exploring opportunities to partner with more local authorities across the UK. 

Whether you’re an early years practitioner, nursery manager or local authority Early Education lead, we’d love to hear from you. 

The programme is generously supported by the Granada Foundation. 

Hear our practitioners from this year’s cohort talk about their experiences so far below.

The children are really engaging with it .. the ones you don’t expect to have really engaged. We’ve got one child with English as an additional language who is not as verbal as some of the other children, but she’s starting to say words during the sessions. She’ll say ‘stop’ and go’ during the warmup, which is real progress for her. There’s another child who doesn’t engage as well in a lot of activities, but he is really engaging in everything and taking everything in.

Tori, Happy Kids Altrincham

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