The Characteristics of Effective Learning underpin learning and development in the EYFS.  They include:

Playing and Exploring – Practitioners support and provide opportunities for all pupils to investigate and experience things, and ‘have a go’.

Active Learning – Practitioners support and provide opportunities for all pupils to concentrate and keep on trying if they encounter difficulties, and enjoy their own achievements.

Creating and Thinking Critically – Practitioners support and provide opportunities for all pupils to have and develop their own ideas, make links between ideas, and develop strategies for doing things.