Characteristics of Effective Learning
Playing and Exploring
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Children investigate and experience things, and 'have a go'.
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Active Learning
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Children concentrate and keep on trying if they encounter difficulties, and enjoy achievements.
Creating and Thinking Critically
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Children have and develop their own ideas, make links between ideas, and develop strategies for doing things.
British Values
Democracy: making decisions together
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Children are encouraged to see their role in the bigger picture, children understand their views count, they value each other’s views and values and talk about their feelings.
Individual liberty: freedom for all
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Children are enabled to develop a positive sense of themselves. Opportunities are provided for children to develop their self-knowledge, self-esteem and increase their confidence in their own abilities.
Rule of law: understanding rules matter
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Adults ensure that children understand their own and others’ behaviour and its consequences, learning to distinguish right from wrong.
Mutual respect and tolerance: treat others as you want to be treated
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We have an ethos of inclusivity and tolerance where views, faiths, cultures and races are valued and children are engaged with the wider community. Children acquire a tolerance, appreciation of and respect for their own and other cultures; know about similarities and differences between themselves, others and among families, faiths, communities, cultures and traditions.