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The practical necessity of child-centred education system has led to a major change in the education system all over the world.The curriculum is being presented to the children in line with real life, so that they can play an active role and participate in their own progress.Keeping this kind of modern education system in mind, the National Education Policy 2020 has emphasized hands-on practice from the foundation level of the education system.By prioritizing children's thinking, curiosity, creative exploration, interest, etc., elements like experiential learning and critical thinking have been given place in the education policy.In this study, an attempt has been made to explain how the child's spontaneous and active participation helps in cognitive development, reflective observation being one of the important elements of child-centred education.Through this element, the student can become aware of his problems and how he can improve his problem-solving skills.Finally, it explains how to activate the classroom and knowledge system by combining both experiential learning and critical thinking to make teamwork fruitful.This study reveals that, active engagement has a positive effect on increasing the confidence, curiosity, and creativity of students.Hands on activities make children possess the power of reflective observation.That is, active engagement directly and indirectly helps in acquiring problem solving skills.Critical thinking is necessary to find multifaceted solutions to an incident or problem by going deep into that problem for the purpose of finding a suitable solution.