{"id":2426,"date":"2025-06-05T15:39:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/cit\/?page_id=2426"},"modified":"2026-01-09T17:24:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:24:40","slug":"gross-motor-skills","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/cit\/12-weeks\/gross-motor-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Gross motor skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ohft-box green\">\n<p><strong>Parents:<\/strong> Some of the PE \/ Gross motor activities may need specific equipment. If you haven\u2019t got this equipment, try using something similar or liaise with school to see if you could borrow what you need.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gross Motor Skills involve movements of the large muscles of the arms, legs and torso for activities like walking, balance, jumping or hopping.<\/p>\n<p>Choose 3 -5 exercises from level 1 from each area that corresponds with the child\u2019s difficulties. Complete the exercises 4 times per week for at least 20 minutes each time. Continue with these exercises for 4 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the 4 weeks, if the child can achieve these activities consistently, move on to choosing 3-5 exercises from level 2 from each area that corresponds with the child\u2019s difficulties, continue with these exercises for a further 4 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of 8 weeks, if the child can achieve the activities consistently, move on to choosing 3-5 exercises from the final level 3 from each area that corresponds with the child\u2019s difficulties, continue with these exercises for the final 4 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Spend time each week in-between sessions practicing the specific activity that the child has difficulty with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gross Motor Skills involve movements of the large muscles of the arms, legs and torso for activities like walking, balance, jumping or hopping. Choose 3 -5 exercises from level 1 from each area that corresponds with the child\u2019s difficulties. Complete the exercises 4 times per week for at least 20 minutes each time. Continue with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2402,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2426","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/cit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/cit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/cit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/cit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/cit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/cit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2721,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/cit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2426\/revisions\/2721"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/cit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/cit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}