Carol Archer has taught in early childhood education and primary schools for over two decades and is currently an advisory teacher for the Integrated Early Years Service in the London Borough of Camden. She also works as a movement-play practitioner/consultant in other education authorities. She finished her Masters Degree at the Institute of Education, University of London on Early Years Education in 2011; and recently published a paper with Iram Siraj on 'Measuring the quality of movement-play in Early Childhood Education settings' in the European Early Childhood Education Research Journal. She is passionate about promoting physical development through movement-play for all young children from birth to 6 years of age in this under researched, under theorised & under practiced area of learning.