Wellbeing akey priority for the early years sector, children and adults alike. As a response, in this session Rosie and Jane will offer you a toolkit of ideas to help you engage, support and build on everyone’s innate musicality to promote their wellbeing and confidence.
This training will support you to consider:
· Auditory environment – music that is meaningful to the child and adults– connecting with home
· Tuning into the child's voice and noticing and valuing their spontaneous musical behaviours (including the use of recordable buttons)
· Exploring your role as the child’s interested musical play partner
· Singing to create a sense of belonging and togetherness (with some simple example songs to use in your everyday practice)
This training is for anyone interested in early years music and will support the practice of:
EY practitioners / EYFS teachers
Music teachers / Music practitioners / Music subject leads
Childminders
Students
Please note, we do not plan to record this session
This training event is part of the Take Art’s partnership with Octagon Music Hub and is therefore offered to those living or working in Somerset and Dorset at a reduced rate.
Bookings close at 5.00 pm Monday 8 June 2026
Joining instructions will be sent on Tuesday 9 June 2026
About Rosie As an early years music specialist, Rosie Walton is passionate about supporting and developing children's musicality, physicality,creativityand sense of self through responsive music making. Her work is influenced by her training at The Royal Northern College of Music in Kodaly and music and movement and The Centre of Research in Early Childhood (CREC), where she completed the Certificate for Music Educators: Early Childhood (CME:EC) course. Rosie has a wealth of experience working as a music educator in early years settings,schools and for specialist music institutions, including The Glasshouse International Centre for Music. She led the successful Gloucestershire Songscape Project- a Youth Music funded early childhood music programme which explored forms of innovative practice. Currently, Rosie combines her work in schools with delivering early childhood music training courses, as well as working as a mentor on the CME:EC course at CREC.
About Jane Jane Parker comes with a wealth of specialist Early Years music experience and knowledge,as an educator and a researcher practitioner with very young children. Having completed an MA in Early Childhood Music Education, Jane possesses both a deep theoretical knowledge and practical understanding of current issues in the Early Years music sector. As well as Take Art’s Early Years Music and Education Lead, Jane is the course Co-Director on the Certificate for Music Educators (CME): Early Childhood course based at CREC (Centre for Research in Early Childhood) in Birmingham.
