COGNITIVE GAMES

Cognitive games promote the development of both fundamental movement skills and executive functions that ensure adaptability and self-regulation in social and educational settings. They reflect the three principles of mental engagement: (1) contextual interference, (2) mental control (stopping, updating, and switching), and (3) discovery.

• Cognition or the process of acquiring knowledge and understanding it, is embodied in action!

• Motor Cognition is the concept that the central nervous system that propels movement, participates in mental processing, including those involved in social interaction.
• Executive function, an important aspect of cognition, is the capacity to think before acting, retain and manipulate information, reflect on the possible consequences of specific actions, and self-regulate behaviour. Children’s core executive functions emerge at different points in time, starting early during the preschool age. Cognitive games promote motor cognition, Mental control, Contextual interference and Divergent Discovery.

Cognitive games are an important tool used by Maverick to develop physical literacy in children. These games help develop team spirit and social skills that are very important for life. The movement patterns in these games are also a precursor to sports and athletic mobility.

We also introduce several Brain Gym activities – contralateral movements to enhance cognition.

Classes 1 to 5 will have one session of Cognitive Games per week.