Schematic play is fascinating to watch and can be a very informative way of analysing children's thinking. I have written previously about the mixed feelings some practitioners have about schemas - find the blog post here - but schematic play is now identified in the EYFS and can be a powerful learning process for young children. For this reason, I'm going to focus on one very typical type of schematic play - Transporting. Let's start a the beginning though. Athey (2007) defines schema as âpatterns of behaviour and thinking in children that exist underneath the surface feature of various contents, contexts and
