- Seeks out companionship with adults and other children, sharing experiences and play ideas
- Uses their experiences of adult behaviours to guide their social relationships and interactions
- Shows increasing consideration of other people’s needs and gradually more impulse control in favourable conditions, eg giving up a toy to another who wants it
- Practises skills of assertion, negotiation and compromise and looks to a supportive adult for help in resolving conflict with peers
- Enjoys playing alone, alongside and with others, inviting others to play and attempting to join others’ play
