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Knowledge and Understanding of the World

This part of the curriculum helps children to:

Investigate objects and materials by using all their senses.
Find out about and identify some features of living things, objects and events they observe.
Look closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change.
Ask questions about why things happen and how things work.
Build and construct with a wide range of objects, selecting appropriate resources.
Select the tools and techniques they need to shape, assemble and join the materials they are using.
Find out about and identify the uses of everyday technology and use ICT and programmable toys to support their learning.
Find out about past and present events in their lives and in those of their families and other people they know.
Observe, find out about and identify features in the place they live and the natural world.
Begin to know about their own cultures and beliefs.
Find out about their environment and talk about those features they like and dislike.