SchemaPlay - The Beckies talk with Lynnette Brock and John Siraj-Blatchford

Here the Beckies are delighted to talk with Lynnette and John about their extensive knowledge of Schema Play. We chat about the ethos of their community interest company SchemaPlay,  we discover their amazing research and practical knowledge of enabling child led play and extending this.Lynnette discusses how all children's learning comes from the child,  and how we can extend this through really knowing what the child can do.  SchemaPlay has its foundations in  understanding the child. John talks about these foundations being based in what the child can do (and not what they cannot do). Schemes are a language for understanding what children do,  SchemaPlay supports practitioners to build on their knowledge of the child.Children learning through play is widely recognised and understood, children are self motivated,  and are doing their own thinking in the process, they are pulled along by the current of their own activity Csikszentmihalyi  (1979).  The practitioner steps very gently, with sensitivity they support this and build upon it to take the child in perhaps a more 'fruitful' direction.  We chat about how exhausting and amazing early years  can be.Learning through play is a given ,  where do we go next ? Lynnette gives real life ideas and case studies and brings to life the practitioners role in supporting and extending eureka moments !Free-flow play 'wallowing  in their play' Tina Bruce (2004)  who in  all of our eyes is a national treasure. For more information please head to Schemaplay.com Facebook (1) SchemaPlay | FacebookMagazine - http://www.schemaplay.com/docs/spmag4.pdfGrab a cuppa and be prepared to be inspired, this is a fabulous mini master class  and one of the best 15mins you may ever spend. Head to www.thrivinglanguage.co.uk for more training, shop, podcasts, support and ideas.Head to  www.thrivinglanguage.co.uk to discover more with The Beckies.Training for educators, key note speakers and workshops, one to one sessions for speech language and communication  play sessions for children and families.Publications Routledge:Speech Language and Communication in the Early YearsSpeech Language and Communication for Healthy Little MindsEmail [email protected] you for listening and being part of this awesome Thriving community who empower all children to be understood. Love The Beckies