Transporting
Children with transporting schema
are learning about distance and
journeys.
They are exploring how they and things around
them ‘travel’ from place to place.
Does your child:
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Load up a buggy with toys and push it around?
Take books or toys to special places?
Play journey games – ‘going on holiday’?
Enjoy collecting things?
Like sending and receiving letters?
Trajectory
Children with trajectory schema are
learning about how things move and
respond.
They love to explore this by throwing and
hitting things through the air and watching
things fly.
Does you child:
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Climb and jump on furniture?
Enjoy kicking and throwing balls?
Like pressing buttons and switches?
Enjoy banging and hammering?
Play with tap water?
Transforming
Children with transforming schema
are learning about cause and effect.
They love to create new things by exploring
what happens when different substances are
mixed together.
Does your child:
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Add gravy to their mashed potato?
Put sand in the water tray?
Play dressing up with imaginary characters?
Like gardening and playing with mud?
Enjoying making dough and pastry?
Enveloping
Children with envelope schema are
learning about space and capacity.
They love to hide themselves and objects under
covers and explore the feeling of ‘disappearing’.
Does your child:
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Enjoy covering head, face and body?
Wrap dolls and toys in blankets and fabric?
Close themselves in boxes and dens?
Colour over their painting or drawing to ‘hide’
what is underneath?
 Enjoy wrapping ‘presents’?
Enclosing
Children with enclosing schema are
learning about size, shape, volume
and measurement.
They are exploring how to contain things using
borders and enclosures.
Does your child:
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Hide in or under things?
Suck thumb and fingers?
Build walls and fences round objects?
Paint borders round their pictures?
Enjoy hide and seek games?
Play in boxes and dens?
Connection
Children with connection schema
are learning about how things join
together and separate.
They love to explore things by taking them
apart and putting them together again and
linking different things together.
Does your child:
 Distribute and collect similar objects?
 Like joining train tracks and making roads?
 Stick and join things together with tape and
string?
 Love playing games involving holding hands?
 Enjoy puzzles and threading beads?
Positioning
Children with positioning schema are
learning about order, logic and
symmetry.
They are exploring the importance of place and
sequence and love to put things ‘in order’.
Does your child:
 Eat their vegetables separately and in a
particular order?
 Like lying on the floor or under a table?
 Enjoy sorting collections of objects?
 Enjoy watching parades or marching?
 Like lining things up in rows?
Rotation
Children with rotation schema are
learning about how things move,
turn and spin.
They love to explore this by physically using
their bodies or by play involving things that
rotate and twist.
Does your child:
 Get fascinated by the spinning washing
machine?
 Love anything with knobs or wheels?
 Enjoy spinning around?
 Enjoy being spun around?
 Get fascinated with nuts and bolts?