Little Roots is an activity provision helping children from 12 weeks to five years to become physically alliterate in Torfaen and surrounding areas. We will soon be offering franchise packages and comprehensive training/workshops to facilitators and early years professionals who want to contribute to a healthy and active nation.
At Little Roots, we're committed to laying the foundation for every child’s physical literacy and early development journey.
We pride ourselves as being unique in terms of our offering and we devise our sessions based on accredited research and frameworks. Our classes provide a dynamic and engaging environment where little ones can explore movement, build fundamental motor skills, and develop a love for physical activity from an early age. Visit our Services page, it will provide a clear understanding of our stage-not-age approach to our classes and how we incorporate different development focuses throughout the Little Roots journey.
As a Welsh demographic business, Little Roots are committed to abiding and promoting Welsh governance and policy. Therefore it is important for licensee holders and our customer base to know what inspires Little Roots and it’s ethos of learning. We have created our resources ensuring we are promoting evidence based research through the Curriculum for Wales (Foundation Phase Framework and Sport Wales’ Progression Steps and Skills framework which aligns with the Curriculum of Wales Health and Well-being Area of Learning and Experiences. Additionally, UK government published the Early Years Foundation Phase Framework, currently only applicable to England. For good practice and the benefit of our facilitators and customers, Little Roots has considered these recommendations.
Eleanor retired as a Netball athlete with twenty six international caps to her name in 2022 and considers representing Wales at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games was the pinnacle of her sporting career. Her education background bolsters a degree in Sport and Exercise Science and later specialised her research achieving a masters in Leadership in Sport. Significantly, Eleanor completed modules which provided coaching insight to Welsh Government Dragons Sport frameworks and the importance of physical literacy for the generations of our future. Eleanor has been building on her sporting experiences, including eight years within the leisure provider sector overseeing three leisure centres, collaborated with local authority organisations and local children’s clubs and groups. Throughout her professional career, Eleanor has collaborated with industry experts across the Sport and Leisure sector including consultancy firms and leading fitness equipment/lifestyle providers which has been paramount to the transferrable knowledge when creating Little Roots. Additional training and obtaining specialist qualifications within the early years field has enabled her to establish the Little Roots licensee manual to allow like minded professionals share the importance of early years physical literacy.
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Torfaen, Wales, UK