Schemas in Action at Thanet Early Years Project

I have set up this blog in order to document children's fascinations and patterns of behaviour whilst they play and learn in our nurseries and crèches across Thanet. These patterns of behaviour are known as 'Schemas'. A Schema is a piece of repeated behaviour which children follow to develop 'their own ideas and thoughts through play and exploration,' (Louis et al, 2008).

Wednesday, 26 June 2013

NEW BOOK!!! Understanding Schemas and Young Children by Frances Atherton and Cathy Nutbrown

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Whenever I discuss schemas with staff working with children under three, I am often asked about appropriate planning for schemas in terms o...
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Monday, 2 April 2012

Thanet Early Years Project Schema Conference

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On 31st March 2012, TEYP held a schema conference at Quex Hall, Quex Park, Birchington. The day was arranged in order to celebrate the proj...
Friday, 16 September 2011

Explorers Schema Display Board for Parents

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Explorers Schema Board for Parents During the Summer, Katie from Explorers put together an information board for parents all about sche...
Thursday, 1 September 2011

The adult role in supporting learning & development

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The practitioner's role is to create a learning environment that is rich in resources and materials, and purposefully supports the devel...

Planning for Schemas

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When practitioners observe repeated patterns of behaviour in young children's play and exploration, they can use this information to id...

An Article from Nursery World

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EYFS Best Practice: All about ... supporting schemas Stella Louis, 02 March 2011, 12:00am Schemas - patterns of repeated behaviour - are key...
Thursday, 25 August 2011

A Good Schema Read!

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A good book and one to read is - Understanding Schemas and Emotions in Early Childhood , written by Cath Arnold, who incidently will be our ...
Thursday, 18 August 2011

Quote of the Week

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" Only an education which takes very seriously the child's view of things can change the world for the better...The power relations...
Friday, 12 August 2011

Potential Learning and Development Opportunities through Schematic Exploration

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problem solving spatial awareness shape and measure speed and distance volume and capacity size, weight and length quantity - mo...
Friday, 1 July 2011

Team of Schema Facilitators'

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In order to ensure that there is lots of support in the settings (in addition to Karen and I) each room in each nursery has its own Schema F...
Monday, 20 June 2011

A Schema Case Study for the Staff

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At the end of the training week, all staff were set an assignment by me. They had to carry out a case study on one of their key children. Th...
Tuesday, 14 June 2011

Staff Training Week 6th - 10th June 2011!

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During the TEYP staff training week Mandy and I delivered the schema training to 78 participants in two parts. Part 1) Spotting and Identi...
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