1. Active learning: Geographical enquiry encourages learners to actively engage in the learning process. Instead of passively receiving information, students take an active role in formulating questions, conducting research, and interpreting data. 

2. Prior knowledge and experiences: Constructivism recognizes the importance of learners' prior knowledge and experiences in constructing new understanding. 

3. Social interaction: Constructivism/ Socio -constructivism highlights the social aspect of learning, emphasizing the importance of interactions with peers and teachers. Through these social interactions, learners can engage in dialogue, negotiate meaning, and construct knowledge together.

4. Authentic context: Constructivism emphasizes the importance of learning in authentic contexts that reflect real-world situations. 

5. Reflection and metacognition: Constructivism recognizes the role of reflection and metacognition in the learning process. Geographical enquiry encourages students to reflect on their learning experiences, evaluate their understanding, and think about the strategies they used during the enquiry process.

Subject specific example: KS1 English lesson on storywriting

Pupils will struggle to simultaneously come up with ideas for characters, setting, plot, and remember capital letters, full stops, finger spaces, etc.

Providing 'cheat sheets' for pupils which will take some of the thinking process away for example character and setting cards that they can choose from, problem/solution prompts where they can fill in the gaps etc. This will allow them to focus on other literacy related elements such as using adjectives, verbs, transitional storytelling language etc.