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Do you need WRAP-AROUND care for your child from September?I currently offer a Before&After school provision for both Ki...
30/06/2023

Do you need WRAP-AROUND care for your child from September?

I currently offer a Before&After school provision for both Kirkburton First and Kirkburton Middle schools.

I am located on Turnshaw Road in Kirkburton only 4/5 minutes walk from either school. Children attending Middle school have no roads to cross on the walk from my house.

Currently I care for children ranging from class reception to class 7. I aim to offer a friendly, home from home service where children can feel comfortable and relaxed before and after school.

I am lucky in that most of our current children have opted to stay with me from September but I do have some spare spaces to offer.

If you would like any further information or to come and view my setting please get in touch.

Lynn Calderwood

06/02/2020

It's been Superhero week, this week.
Postman Pat is not impressed with
Captain America!

04/11/2019

Schema 4 - Enclosure

A child who enjoys creating enclosed spaces in
which they may or may not put objects and
themselves into. This is related to the Envelopment
Schema discussed last time.
Remember it’s easier to think of these schemas
As ‘urges’in children ‘willing’ them on to
exhibit certain behaviours.

This child may:

like putting things in bags and pots;
enjoy shape sorting toys;
climb into boxes;
love filling up boxes and bags with sand or;
draw or paint pictures then put
boxes or circles around them.

If you recognise this schema in your child
you could provide:

pots with things they can fill them with;
containers to fill in the bath or sink;
dry play, such as pasta and pots to fill or;
boxes or tents to go in.

27/10/2019

Old Macdonald performed by three of our littlies! It was mush louder than it sounds!

24/10/2019

A picnic in the den

21/10/2019

Schema 3 - Envelopment

Third in our series on schemas.

A child who has an envelopment schema
is interested in enveloping itself and
objects or a space. It is very closely
related to the enclosure schema. Watch
our video - You may recognise the behaviour
in your own child or someone else’s.

A child with an envelopment schema may:

 like to wrap themselves in material;
 make parcels containing everyday objects;
 cover their hands and body in paint or;
 paint a picture and then cover it with a
solid layer of paint.

If you think your child exhibits the characteristics
of the envelopment schema you could provide:

 blankets to wrap dolls and themselves in;
 dressing up clothes;
 paper and newspaper to make parcels or;
 resources to paint themselves.

06/10/2019

SCHEMAS in Children’s Play

I wish I had known about these when my children were young. It helps to explain so much about our little ones behaviour.

Schemas in Children’s Play are such an important concept when it comes to the development of our children that it’s worth taking the time to understand them so you can facilitate them when you see them.

What are these schemas?

Well it’s really a fancy word for the urges that children have to do things like climb, throw things and hide in small places.

They appear through play; perhaps it is the way they choose to do things, or what they desperately need to do out of the blue!

They are the building blocks for the brain, repeated behaviour that in turn forge connections in the brain, patterns of unfolding, learning and growth.

Schemas are such an important part in every child's development that they are covered in training for anyone in the business of care and education of young children - yet not too many parents seem to know about these natural,uncontrollable and totally necessary play-urges that all children have.

Knowing about these play-urges can help us to understand why our children are so determined to do certain things that we might not understand. If we have no idea about the way in which a child exhibits signs of brain development, then we might actually think that the child is being 'difficult' or even try to stop the developmental urges themselves. So the next time your child throws an object, climbs on a table, moves toys (infuriatingly sometimes) from one room to another and back again stop and think what it might mean

By knowing about these schemas we can recognise and support their urges and development.

Over the next few days I will introduce you to each one of these schemas. Have a look, they are truly fascinating.

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