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Principles * Planning activities that offer appropriate physical challenges (p100)

* Planning activities that offer appropriate physical challenges (p100)

* Providing sufficient space, indoors and outdoors, to set up relevant activities (p100)

* Providing a range of small objects to handle (p103) Early learning goals

* Show awareness of space, themselves and others (p108)

* Handle tools, objects, construction and malleable materials safely and with increasing control (p114) Stepping stones

* Persevere in repeating some actions/attempts when developing a new skill (p108)

* Demonstrate increasing skill and control in the use of mark-making implements, blocks, construction sets and 'small world' activities (p114)

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