Mind Moves with Jenny-Lee, Potchefstroom

'n Span kundiges in Colorado Springs het in 'n onlangse publikasie beaam wat ons hier in SA lankal sê: voorskoolse werksvelle is só oneffektief dat dit eintlik in der waarheid teenproduktief is.
Hier volg die kernredes hiervoor, gegrond op bewese beste praktyke in kleuteronderwys.

Hulp vir opvoeders en ouers met komplimente van die .
Geskryf namens die AON deur Vroëekinderontwikkelingspesialis, Wilna van Rooyen.

Let wel, hierdie inhoud is onderhewig aan outeursreg.



FEDSAS LAPA Uitgewers SAOU Nasionaal / National VivA Afrikaans

Is jy gereed vir die eindeksamen? 🤓📝

Sluit by ons aan vir Oktober se Study Roots, 'n opwindende, interaktiewe studieprogram om vir jou kind die gereedskap te leer om onafhanklik en effektief te kan opsom en leer.

🗓 Elke Vrydagmiddag van 17 Oktober - 7 November 2025
🕝14:30 - 16:30
🏠 Mind Moves Potchefstroom

Vir meer inligting oor hoe om u kind in te skryf, kontak vir:
👤 Jenny-Lee Smith
☎️071 629 0432
📧 [email protected]

⭐Exciting new article: ⭐ The Importance of Skipping with a Rope.

Extensive research from the Mind Moves Institute confirms that most learners with emotional, behavioural, and academic challenges retain active primitive reflexes beyond the typical developmental window.

While primitive reflexes are adaptive and functional during infancy (up to 6 months post-term), they become maladaptive if retained beyond this age, impeding neurodevelopment.

✨ Neurodevelopment refers to the brain's capacity to establish and refine neural pathways necessary for:
✅ learning
✅ memory
✅ concentration
✅ posture
✅ emotional regulation
✅ self-control

🧩 It’s not random - it follows an innate, hierarchical blueprint.

Mind Moves is a structured movement programme designed for the classroom and home. It targets primitive reflexes, guiding them to full maturation and integration through repetitive, specific movement patterns.

🔓 Once these reflexes are integrated, the “survival brain” is relieved of primitive motor responses, allowing the “thinking brain” to focus on higher cognitive functions like:
📖 reading
➗ numeracy
🧠 problem-solving
📊 executive functioning

💬 According to Melodie, “movement is medicine.” 💃🕺
This captures why skipping with a rope is such a powerful, playful therapeutic tool—it supports postural development and neuro-integration.

🤸‍♀️ Mastering this gravity-defying movement reflects the maturation of balance, coordination, and sensory-motor integration.

Read more here:👉 https://www.mindmoves.co.za/2025/07/31/the-importance-of-skipping-with-a-rope/

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This is a very unsettling statistic. If pre-school is where the foundation is build, what will happen to our children's skills if they don't attend it?

Early Childhood Development (ECD) crisis: 58% of South Africa’s children not enrolled in pre-schools Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube revealed this shocking statistic during the City of Cape Town’s Early Childhood Development (ECD) Indaba 2025.

🌟 New Article Alert! 🌟

We’re excited to share Dr Melodie de Jager’s latest article:

✨ School Readiness Doesn’t Begin in November ✨

Too often, we think of school readiness as a last-minute push at the end of the year. But true readiness is something we nurture every single day.

At the Mind Moves Institute, we believe PLAY = SMART. When you watch a child playing with their whole body, you see the entire Executive Functioning Process unfold before you!

This new article offers fresh, practical insights that can help parents, teachers, and professionals support children to lay strong foundations for lifelong learning success.

We believe it will resonate with everyone working to give children the best possible start—and support the important work you’re already doing.

📖 Read it here:
👉 https://www.mindmoves.co.za/2025/07/03/school-readiness-doesnt-begin-in-november/

🌐 Explore our e-Learning courses:
👉 https://elearning.mindmoves.co.za/

✨ Let’s shift perspectives together and make every day a step toward real school readiness! 💫

Wat maak my uniek? Waar lê my sterkpunte? Kom ontdek dit hier! 👇

Why does my child act the way they do? 🤨👇

Hoe werk die brein en watter roete volg die inligting om uiteindelik by die kognitiewe deel van die brein uit te kom? 🧠🔀ℹ️💡

What's the secret to learn successfully and effectively? A look into the Neuroscience of Learning😃👀 🧠💪

🗓Next online workshop kicks off in the holiday: 30 June - 3 July 2025.

Wie het gesê lees kan net by n tafel gebeur?Kyk net hoe oulik kan jy jou lyfie gebruik terwyl jy lees! Welgedaan Laerskool Vastrap

Vastrap se gr. 1’s oefen hulle sigwoorde op ‘n prettige en praktiese manier – lees is soveel lekkerder wanneer besige lyfies dit kan ervaar!