Teacher - Mrs Rae Larsen

Perceptual Motor Programme in the Junior School

PMP  /  Perceptual Motor Programme

A perceptual Motor Programme aims to teach child perceptions and understandings of him/her self and his/her world through movement/motor experiences. (Bullus and Coles ‘Perceptual Motor Programmes, a Manual for Teachers’).
ie it helps to develop automaticity of motor tasks through practice and doing, so that a thinking task can be overlaid.

It aims to develop perceptions of
• Time and space
• The pattern and order of the child’s natural world
• The laws and limitations that govern his/her body
• Above all, it aims to give the child the confidence to be able to manipulate him/herself and his/her world to suit his/her best interests.

The child needs the motor skills of balance, locomotion and eye/hand/foot co-ordination and needs to be fit to function effectively.

Children with common behaviour problems of inattention, day dreaming, wandering, laziness, clumsiness and disruptive behaviours are frequently children who have not developed a ‘perceptual world’.

A Perceptual Motor Programme has the children work through a sequence of experiences to develop perception and motor outcomes along with memory training.

Confidence grows, problems are solved, language skills develop and the fundamental sports skills are learned which will enable the child to move competently in the major games and activities.

Children become self assured people, knowing their place in the world, aware of the contributions they make to the world.



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