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Music for Physical Fitness at a local Children's Centre
Boogie Mites has been running a 6 week course at Bessemer Grange Childrens's Centre in Southwark, London. Using music to promote family fitness, the weekly one hour classes for families with children under eight years have been a great success with most families attending regularly. The sessions have been taking place after school so that parents can attend with pre and school agae children and feedback has been that families have enjoyed the fact that they can all take part in an activity together: no more sitting on the sidelines for a toddler while his/her older sibling takes part in an activity.
A range of songs and musical activities have been used by the Boogie Mites workshop leader to promote physical fitness. With songs about going to the park, growing your own veg, swimming and dancing everyone's tastes are catered for. Classes finish with a calming song which is accompanied by basic yoga moves so that the whole family can learn some simple ways to de-stress! One Mum has said:
"Boogie Mites' at Bessemer Grange Children's Centre has been a
pleasure! We (the family-of-four: my daughter - 6, son of 18 months,
partner and myself) have really enjoyed 'boogie-ing' with Emma."
If you would like to discover how Boogie Mites can help to meet your Healthy Living objectives, please contact us via our contact page.
More information about our Healthy Living Programme can be found at http://www.boogiemites.co.uk/prod/67/healthy-living