• Show awareness of own feelings, and knows that some actions and words can hurt others’ feelings.

• Begin to accept the needs of others and can take turns and share resources, sometimes with support from others.

Initiates play, offering cues to peers to join them.

• Initiates conversations, attends to and takes account of what others say.

• Explains own knowledge and understanding, and asks appropriate questions of others.

• Takes steps to resolve conflicts with other

• Experiment with different ways of moving.

• Jump off an object and lands appropriately.

• Negotiate space successfully, adjusting speed or changing direction to avoid obstacles.

• Travel with confidence and skill around, under, over and through balancing and climbing equipment.

• Build up vocabulary that reflects the breadth of their experiences.

• Use talk in pretending that objects stand for something else in play

• Use talk to connect ideas, explain what is happening and anticipate what might happen next, recall and relive past experiences. 

• Uses language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences in play situations.

• Holds books the correct way up and turns pages.

• Knows that print carries meaning and, in English, is read from left to right and top to bottom

• Continue a rhyming string.

• Hear and say the initial sound in words.

• Link sound to letters, naming and sounding the letters of the alphabet.

• Can segment the sounds in simple words and blend them together.

• Use some clearly identifiable letters to communicate meaning, representing some sounds correctly and in sequence.
Write own name and other things such as labels, captions.

• Show an interest in numerals in the environment.

• Show an interest in representing numbers.

• Realise not only objects, but anything can be counted, including steps, claps or jumps.

• Selects the correct numeral to represent 1 to 5, then 1 to 10 objects.

• Uses positional language.

• Realise tools can be used for a purpose.

• Developing preferences for forms of expression.

• Use movement to express feelings.

• Creates movement in response to music.

• Can talk about some of the things they have observed such as plants, animals, natural and found objects.

• Knows some of the things that make them unique, and can talk about some of the similarities and differences in relation to friends or family.

• Shows skill in making toys work by pressing parts or lifting flaps to achieve effects such as sound, movements or new images.

• Knows that information can be retrieved from computers