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Learning & Development: Schemas Part 3 - Observing ... Reece

The many schemas explored by a three-year-old are described by Shelley Bannigan, family worker in the Snug at the Pen Green Nursery in Northamptonshire.

Reece started at Pen Green Nursery in October last year, aged two years 11 months, and attends nursery five afternoons a week. He has settled in easily to the nursery routine and coped well with his transition in to the nursery.

Home context

Reece lives with his mother, father and two sisters, aged 12 and 18 months. He also has an older brother, Carl, who lives away from home at university. His mother said that at home, Reece has enjoyed using a construction set with real screwdrivers and likes taking items apart and putting them back together (disconnecting and connecting). She said he also loves playing outdoors, especially climbing on the apparatus in the park and playing on the trampoline in their garden (trajectory).

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