Musical Development Matters in the Early Years - Sounds of Play training

In this one day course participants will explore the Musical Development Matters guidance and how this can be used to support planning for music making within free flow environments and within adult-led music making sessions.

The course will also support participants to explore ways in which music complements and contributes to all areas of learning and development. This course will be delivered by Nicola Burke, author of Musical Development Matters, and will be interactive, fun and workshop style. The course will demonstrate how easily music can be incorporated into any early childhood setting without practitioners needing any previous musical knowledge or experience.

Participants will have the opportunity to:

· Become familiar with the Musical Development Matters guidance & online resource

· Learn songs and musical activities to share and enjoy with babies and children

· Explore children’s musical development

· Develop an understanding of how music threads through all areas of learning and development

· Gain ideas as to how to nurture the natural musicality of children

· Observe children’s musical play and discuss how to nurture, and interact with children’s music making

· Explore musical environments and how to create music making and music listening opportunities

· Plan for musical opportunities linked to the EYFS

Who is this course for: All Early Years practitioners working in the Erdington district.

When: Wednesday 27th November 9.30am-3pm

Where: Lakeside Children’s Centre, Lakes Rd, Birmingham B23 7UH

Cost: Free (Fully Funded)

For all booking enquiries please contact Quench Arts:

Email:[email protected]

Tel: 07716 362478

About Sounds of Play

Sounds of Play Project is a workforce development project led by The Springfield Project, a leading partner of Birmingham Forward Steps (BFS). The project is built upon the partnership of 18 early years and music organisations in the city who together make up the Birmingham Early Years Music Consortium (BEYMC). In 2019, the Consortium was thrilled to be awarded a grant from Youth Music to deliver the Sounds of Play project which ended in March 2022. This project brought the Early Years and Music workforces together to learn from each other, to develop high quality Early Years Music practice across the city and to deliver music activities to children under 5 and their families. In 2023, Youth Music awarded a further £150,000 to BFS to continue to develop early years music practice and provision across Birmingham and build on the established relationships formed between the partner organisations.

www.springfieldproject.org.uk/children-families/sounds-of-play/

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Partners in the BEYMC

· B’Opera

· Barnardo’s

· Birmingham City Council

· Birmingham Community Healthcare

· Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

· Birmingham Nursery Schools Teaching

Schools Alliance

· City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

· Centre for Research in Early Childhood

· Early Years Alliance

· Kids

· Mac Makes Music

· Quench Arts

· Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

· The Springfield Project

· Services for Education

· St Paul’s Community Development Trust

· Spurgeons

· Welsh National Opera

Host or Publisher Birmingham Early Years Music Consortium