Communication and language

• Articulate their ideas and thoughts in well-formed sentences.
• Connect one idea or action to another using a range of connectives.
• Use talk to help work out problems and organise thinking and activities, and to explain how things work and why they might happen.
• ELG: Speaking: Participate in small group, class and one-to-one discussions, offering their own ideas, using recently introduced vocabulary
• ELG: Speaking: Offer explanations for why things might happen. 

Characteristics of effective learning

> Playing and exploring

> Active learning

> Creating and thinking critically