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Learning and Development

4.1 Play and Exploration 4.2 Active Learning 4.3 Creativity and Critical Thinking 4.4 Areas of Learning and Development

'Learning and Development' is one of the four complementary themes of the Early Years Foundation Stage.  It is broken down into four commitments which highlight the areas of learning and development as equally important. Children learn and develop at different rates and in different ways; effective provision will reflect this.

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www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/eyfs/site/4/

Principle:

Children develop and learn in different ways and at different rates and all areas of Learning and Development are equally important and inter-connected.

     
Children engaged in play and exploration are learning through experience, because young children's development and learning, whether physical, social, emotional, moral or cognitive, requires real, hands-on engagement - it cannot be done by means of a worksheet.

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