Calendar

25th – 26th October, 2021, ONLINE, Training Trainers for the OMEP-UK Education for Sustainable Citizenship SILVER Award (10.00 – 13.00 each day).

14th – 15th October, 2021 Worcestershire Children First, An Introduction to SchmaPlay and the SchemaPlay Curriculum Wheel, Keynotes and Workshops/

24th – 26th August, 2021, ONLINE, SchemaPlay Training Trainers for Improving Outcomes through Play (10.00 – 13.00 each day).

7th – 10th June 2021, , ONLINE, SchemaPlay Training Trainers for Improving Outcomes through Play, Aspire Training Team (10.00 – 13.00 each day).

25th May 2021, ONLINE, Guest Seminar: School of Psychology, University of Sussex (15.00-16.00)

18th May 2021 ONLINE, SchemaPlay Training Trainers for Improving Outcomes through Play (3rd of  3), University of Perth, Western Australia

10th May 2021 ONLINE, SchemaPlay Training Trainers for Improving Outcomes through Play (2nd of  3), University of Perth, Western Australia

6th May 2021 ONLINE, SchemaPlay Training Trainers for Improving Outcomes through Play (1st of  3), University of Perth, Western Australia

22nd – 23rd April 2021, ONLINE, Training Trainers for the OMEP-UK Education for Sustainable Citizenship SILVER Award (10.00 – 13.00 each day).

31st March + 1st/2nd April 2021, ONLINE, SchemaPlay Training Trainers for Improving Outcomes through Play (10.00 – 13.00 each day).

2nd + 3rd March 2021, ONLINE, Training Trainers for the OMEP-UK Education for Sustainable Citizenship Award (10.00 – 13.00 each day).

23rd February 2021, ONLINE, Guest Seminar: MA Early Childhood Education, Canterbury University (18.00-20.00)

6th – 8th February 2021, ONLINE, SchemaPlay Training Trainers for Improving Outcomes through Play (10.00 – 13.00 each day).

26th – 27th January 2021, ONLINE, Training Trainers for the OMEP-UK Education for Sustainable Citizenship Award (10.00 – 13.00 each day).

18th January 2021 ONLINE, SchemaPlay Training Trainers for Improving Outcomes through Play (3rd of  3), University of Perth Western Australia

16th January 2021, ONLINE, Training Trainers for the OMEP-UK Education for Sustainable Citizenship Award, Colourwheel

15th – 17th December, ONLINE, SchemaPlay Training Trainers for Improving Outcomes through Play, Action for Children

9th and 10th December 2020, ONLINE, Training Trainers for the OMEP-UK Education for Sustainable Citizenship Award

8th December 2020, ONLINE, SchemaPlay Training Trainers for Improving Outcomes through Play (2nd of  3), University of Perth Western Australia

1st – 3rd December 2020, ONLINE, SchemaPlay Training Trainers for Improving Outcomes through Play

30th November, ONLINE, An Introduction to SchemaPlay, NSET/PGCE, Coventry University

24th November 2020 ONLINE, SchemaPlay Training Trainers for Improving Outcomes through Play (1st of  3), University of Perth Western Australia

11th November 2020 ONLINE, OMEP-UK Seminar: Education for Sustainable Citizenship Award: Stories from Settings

30th September 2020 ONLINE, An Introduction to to SchemaPlay, Webinar

10th September 2020 ONLINE, An Introduction to to SchemaPlay, Webinar

1st September 2020, ONLINE, Training Trainers Tops Day Nurseries

4th – 5th August 2020, ONLINE, Training Trainers for the OMEP-UK Education for Sustainable Citizenship Award

15th July 2020, ONLINE, Training Trainers Tops Day Nurseries

2nd – 3rd June 2020, ONLINE, Training Trainers for the OMEP-UK Education for Sustainable Citizenship Award

26th – 27th May 2020, ONLINE, Training Trainers for the OMEP-UK Education for Sustainable Citizenship Award: Silver Level

4th – 6th May 2020, ONLINE, Training Trainers for Improving Outcomes through Play, Tops Day Nurseries

8th February 2020 London, GECCO Early Years Eco-Sustainability Conference at the Nursery World Show (Information)

6th February 2020 Coventry University SchemaPlay Training for Trainers in Initial Teacher Education

4th-5th February 2020 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, Training Trainers for Improving Outcomes through Play

16th January 2020 Montessori Centre International, Training Trainers for the OMEP-UK Education for Sustainable Citizenship Award

6th December 2019 North London (tbc) Education for Sustainable Citizenship Award First Day launch for Practitioners/Heads of Settings 

5th December 2019 North London (tbc) Improving Outcomes First day launch for Practitioners/Heads of Settings 

4th December 2019 Ipswich (tbc) Education for Sustainable Citizenship Award First Day launch for Practitioners/Heads of Settings

3rd December 2019 Ipswich (tbc) Improving Outcomes First day launch for Practitioners/Heads of Settings 

6th November 2019 Edinburgh (tbc) Education for Sustainable Citizenship Award First Day launch for Practitioners/Heads of Settings 

5th November 2019 Edinburgh (tbc) Improving Outcomes First day launch for Practitioners/Heads of Settings

30th October 2019 Liverpool (tbc) Education for Sustainable Citizenship Award First Day launch for Practitioners/Heads of Settings

29th October 2019 Liverpool (tbc) Improving Outcomes First day launch for Practitioners/Heads of Settings  

24th -26th 2019 September London Borough of Bromley SchemaPlay Training Trainers launch

17th July 2019 West Midlands (tbc) Education for Sustainable Citizenship Award First Day launch for Practitioners/Heads of Settings

16th July 2019 West Midlands (tbc) Improving Outcomes First day launch for Practitioners/Heads of Settings

1st May 2019 SchemaPlay National Annual Conference and Workshops, Bescot Stadium Walsall

23rd January 2018 (pm) – Siraj-Blatchford J., & Brock, L. An Introduction to Education for Sustainable Citizenship in the Early Years, Huddersfield

23rd January 2018 (am) – Siraj-Blatchford J., & Brock, L. Improving Learning Outcomes: An Introduction to SchemaPlay and the Zone of Proximal Developmental Flow, Huddersfield

15-16th November 2017 – Brock, L. The Zone of Proximal Developmental Flow, Suffolk

11th November 2017– Siraj-Blatchford J., & Brock, L. Education for Sustainable Citizenship in Early Childhood, University Centre Weston, Weston-super-Mare

11th November 2017– Siraj-Blatchford J., & Brock, L. The Adult Role in Free Flow Play, University Centre Weston, Weston-super-Mare

13th May 2017 – Siraj-Blatchford J., & Brock, L. Supporting Early Learning in Mathematics with SchemaPlay, Diss, Norfolk

9th May 2017 – Siraj-Blatchford J., & Brock, L., Education for Sustainavle Citizenship in Early Childhood, (Project Dissemination Event) Maidstone, Kent

3rd May 2017 – Siraj-Blatchford J., & Brock, L., The Zone of Proximal Developmental Flow (ZPDF), Football Association, St Georges Park, DE13 9PD

8th March 2017 – Siraj-Blatchford J., & Brock, L., Taking Play seriously: Examining how play works and how best to support it, ENABLE Conference, London

17th January 2017 – Siraj-Blatchford J., & Brock, L., Free Flow Play, Skill Acquisition and Mirror Neurons, Football Association, St Georges Park, Burton on Trent

1st October 2016 – Siraj-Blatchford J., & Brock, L., Schemes and Schemas, Jury’s Inn, Derby, DE1 3DB (10.00 am)

1st – 3rd September 2016 – Siraj-Blatchford J., & Brock, L., Playing and Learning in the Zone of Proximal Developmental Flow (ZPDF), and Wellbeing and Sustainable Development: The legacy of Maria Montessori, Papers presented at the 26th European Early Childhood Education Research Association, EECERA Conference, Dublin

10th June 2016 – Brock, L., Exploring Children’s Learning: Schemes or Schemas supporting the zone of proximal developmental flow, The fifth annual MEAB School Leaders Conference, Jeffery Hall, University of London

21st April 2016 – Siraj-Blatchford, J., Early Childhood Digital Play and the Zone of Proximal Developmental Flow (ZPDF), Keynote Speaker, Seville, Spain

30th March 2016 – Siraj-Blatchford J., & Brock, L. Play and the ZPDF: A Balancing Act, MCI Professional Development Workshop, Montessori Centre International, London

5th February 2016 – Siraj-Blatchford, J. The learning and developmental prerequisites for Sustainable Citizenship, Eco-Schools, London

29th January 2016 – Siraj-Blatchford J., & Brock, L. Identifying the formal, informal and non-formal learning and developmental prerequisites for sustainable citizenship: An Early Childhood perspective, Plymouth Institute of Education Research Seminar Series, Plymouth, Rolle 114, 2pm onwards Spaces are limited.

27th November 2015 – Siraj-Blatchford J. Education for Sustainable Development, University of Plymouth Institute of Education, Plymouth

19th November 2015 – Siraj-Blatchford J. Education for Sustainable Development, Liverpool John Moores University Seminar, Liverpool, UK

30th October 2015 – Siraj-Blatchford J., & Brock, L. Taking Play more seriously, Paper presented at TACTYC Annual Conference, Birmingham, UK

30th July 2015 – Siraj-Blatchford J., Early Childhood Education for Sustainable Development, Keynote speaker at the World Environmental Education Conference (WEEC), Gothenburg, Sweden

12th June 2015 – Siraj-Blatchford J.,  Education for Sustainable Development an International Perspective, Keynote speaker at the annual conference of Early Education, the British Association of Early Childhood education (BAECE), Plymouth, UK

26th – 27th May 2015 – Siraj-Blatchford J., The OMEP Global Action Programme, UNESCO, Paris, France

11th April 2015 – Siraj-Blatchford J., Education for Sustainable Development an International Perspective, Evora, Portugal

17th March 2015 – Siraj-Blatchford J., Outstanding Information and Communications Technology Education in Early Childhood, Wandsworth

12th January 2015 – Siraj-Blatchford J., An OMEP proposal for the UNESCO Global Action Programme, Seoul, Korea