1/10 SchemaPlay Train the Trainers Course: Our final course this year takes place on the 14th, 15th and 16th of November (9.30am – 1pm live online). We provide trainers who would like to add to their offering our SchemaPlay training resources (PowerPoints, videos, games, our theory book, the activities ideas book, SchemaPlay Staffroom Posters, the SchemaPlay Setting Audit Tool, and our SchemaPlay ParentZone resources) to support the SchemaPlay Early Years Setting Accreditation.
Following this training, you are welcome to access our additional resources through the SchemaPlay Trainers Directory and engage in our SchemaPlay International Trainer Chatter, which provides ongoing trainer CPD and support (the trainers’ chatter is held quarterly). To find out more, please email admin@schemaplay.com
28/9 Moving away from ‘cognitive overload’ for early years practitioners and children. In October 2022 SchemaPlay will be launching their SchemaPlay (TM) Curriculum Wheel: Building upon what children can do and responding to their unique lines of enquiry. The SchemaPlay (TM) Curriculum Wheel ensures that we not only support children’s outcomes through free-flow play, but also embed sustainability into our day to day practice with young children – all through free-flow play and anchored in what children can do and know! All learning is meaningful. To find out more about our SchemaPlay Curriculum Wheel, cognitive overload, ‘flow’ in free-flow play and schemes and schemas – and how they are pre-requisites for all complex operations, including reading, writing, adding and subtracting – join our next training. For information, please email admin@schemaplay.com for further information.
26/9 Congratulations to Jayne’s Nursery in Chelmsford on achieving their SchemaPlay Improving Outcomes Through Free-Flow Play (TM) Educator and SchemaPlay (TM) Setting Accreditation. Thank you also to accredited SchemaPlay trainer, Dianne Yewman, who supported the team. This is the 50th SchemaPlay (TM) early years’ setting accreditation this year! Well done Jayne’s Nursery – a great achievement in following/building upon children’s schemes and their unique investigations!
Recent article by Nursery World on SchemaPlay in Western Australia. https://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/features/article/education-for-sustainability-midas-touch
2022 SchemaPlay in Nursery World Feature – April https://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/features/article/essential-resources-schemes-connecting-follow-a-thread
2022 SchemaPlay in Nursery World Feature – March https://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/features/article/essential-resources-transporting-schemes-move-it
2022 SchemaPlay in Nursery World Feature – Feb https://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/features/article/essential-resources-schemes-positioning-right-on
SchemaPlay in Nursery World – this is the last article in the 6 month series. Please see the links below to the other articles. https://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/features/article/essential-resources-schemes-connecting-follow-a-thread
It’s Earth Day! Early Years: A day to reflect on how we in early years’ can support children’s sustainable habits by building upon what they already enjoy doing – their enjoyed scheme applications.
The containing scheme: A child who enjoys containing might find it exciting to engage in a recycling activity – sorting snack cartons and packaging into relevant bins. Or creating bird feeders and engaging in wildlife conservation.
The Trajectory scheme: A child who enjoys watching objects move through the air, might find it exciting to engage in bird watching and record (tally) the birds that they have seen visiting their nursery garden and then report their finding to the RSPB.
Children who enjoy applying a trajectory scheme may be exploring capacity and volume in pouring activities, and therefore might delight in creating rain harvesters to top-up the garden bird baths with rain water (exploring water conservation).
The Transporting scheme: A child who enjoys picking up objects and transporting them from one place to another might enjoy engaging in a community litter picking activity.
SchemaPlay pedagogy embeds sustainability into daily practice. For further information about SchemaPlay early years’ training, contact admin@schemaplay.com
20.04.22 New article on SchemaPlay – https://www.teachearlyyears.com/learning-and-development/view/schematic-play
Latest accreditation – Congratulations to Tops Day Nursery, Prince Rock on your SchemaPlay Educator Accreditation and SchemaPlay Setting Accreditation. For information about SchemaPlay pedagogy, visit http://www.schemaplay.com
Congratulations to the team at Tops Day Nursery, Corfe-Mullen on achieving the SchemaPlay Educators and SchemaPlay Setting Accreditation.
Contact admin@schemaplay.com for information.
Co-author and trainer – SchemaPlay Pedagogy and Education for Sustainable Citizenship in the Early Years/Primary Years.
Siraj-Blatchford, J., and Brock, L. (forthcoming 2021) SchemaPlay: an embodied, ecological and child centred approach to early childhood education, SchemaPlay Publications
Brock, L. and Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2019) Education for Sustainable Citizenship: Think Children’s future today! (Activity Ideas), SchemaPlay Publications
Brock, L. and Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2019) SchemaPlay Activity Ideas: Supporting learning outcomes in free-flow play, SchemaPlay Publications
Siraj-Blatchford, J., and Brock, L. (2016) Education for Sustainable Citizenship in Early Childhood, SchemaPlay Publications
Siraj-Blatchford, J., and Brock, L. (2016) Putting the Schema back into Schema Theory and Practice: An Introduction to SchemaPlay, SchemaPlay Publications
Siraj-Blatchford, J., and Brock, L. (2021) Schemes and Sustainability: An Ecological approach to Early Childhood Education and Care, Early Years Educator, Vol. 22, No. 9
Siraj-Blatchford, J., and Brock, L. (2020) The Revised EYFS Curriculum: Supplement with SchemaPlay, SchemaPlay Pedagogy Magazine, Autumn 2020
Siraj-Blatchford, J., and Brock, L. (2019) Tackling inequality and underachievement through free-flow play, Early Years Educator, Vol. 21, No. 6
Siraj-Blatchford, J., and Brock, L. (2019) Encouraging Sustainable Citizens of the Future, Early Years Educator, Vol. 21, No. 5
Siraj-Blatchford, J., and Brock, L. (2019) Grasping the confidence to achieve their potential, Early Years Educator, Vol. 21, No. 4
Siraj-Blatchford, J., and Brock, L. (2019) How to scaffold learning through free-flow play, Early Years Educator, Vol. 21, No. 3
Brock, L. and Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2019) Extend Schemas to Make Children Feel Empowered, Early Years Educator, January
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