Wellbeing is currently a key priority for the early years sector, children and adults alike.
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)
Who is this event for?
- EY practitioners / EYFS teachers
- Music teachers / Music practitioners / Music subject leads
- Childminders
- Students
- Anyone else with an interest in Early Childhood Music Education
11 June 2025. 7.30 – 9.00 pm with Jane Parker & Rosie Walton
Free – students; £5.00 people working in early years in Somerset/Dorset; £10 others
We do not plan to record this session
Bookings close at 9.00 am Monday 9 June 2025
Joining instructions will be sent out at least 24 hours before the event.
Rosie Walton
As an early years music specialist, Rosie is passionate about supporting and developing children's musicality, creativity and sense of self through responsive music making.
Rosie currently leads the 'Gloucestershire Songscape Project' - a Youth Music Project funded early childhood music programme, hosted by Gloucestershire Music. Her work is influenced by her training at The Royal Northern College of Music in Kodaly and Dalcroze Eurhythmics and at The Centre of Research in Early Childhood, where she completed the Certificate in Music Education: Early Childhood course. Rosie has a wealth of experience working as a music educator in early years settings, schools and for specialist music institutions, including Sage Gateshead (now The Glasshouse International Centre for Music).
Jane Parker
Jane 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 Lead on their Youth Music funded ‘SoundWaves Network SW’ programme and a creative practitioner on ‘Little People Big Ideas’, Jane is also one of the Course Directors on the Certificate for Music Educators (CME): Early Childhood course based at CREC (Centre for Research in Early Childhood) in Birmingham.