A multi-sensory approach to making music in the early years- Sounds of Play

Edgbaston & Northfield Early Years workforce
FREE Early Years Music workshop
‘A multi-sensory approach to making music in the early years’

Delivered by Jenny Muirhead

Through a mixture of discussion and practical work, participants can expect to leave this 2.5 hour workshop with ideas on how to use instruments and non-musical stimuli as part of their practice. They will gain a range of new multi-sensory musical activities and strategies for facilitating meaningful music making in their settings.

The workshop will:

· Explore the effective use of multi-sensory resources and instruments in musical play with a focus on movement.

· Offer a diverse range of activities and provocations that encourage quality music making. Including: circle games, listening activities, conduction and free play.

· Discuss how these ideas and resources can be implemented within the participants settings, looking at verbal and non-verbal facilitating techniques to support musical play.

· Participants will also gain access to quality digital resources and audio examples of activities.

Jenny Muirhead

Jenny Muirhead (nee Wood) is a freelance musician, workshop leader and educator based in Birmingham, specialising in Early Years and SEND. She graduated from the Birmingham Conservatoire in 2014 (BMus(hons) as an oboist. In 2017 she was awarded her MA in performance & pedagogy. Jenny also trained at the Centre for Research in Early Childhood, gaining her CME: Early Childhood in 2022.

As an oboist, she plays regularly with orchestras in Birmingham and the West Midlands. She has worked as a woodwind specialist tutor for Birmingham Services for Education, as Learning Coordinator at Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and as Arts Award Advisor for the Sound and Music Summer School.

Jenny currently works as a co-facilitator for Big Top Musical Adventures CIC (since 2017) and has recently delivered the pilot EY project Musicadoodledo for Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. She is also a visiting lecturer at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and is Director of Melody Music Birmingham, a charity dedicated to music-making for individuals with additional needs.

Who is this course for:

● Early years practitioners and teachers working with children aged 0-5 years in the Edgbaston and Northfield districts

● Family hub staff who work with children aged 0-5 years in the Edgbaston and Northfield districts

● PVI nursery staff in the Edgbaston & Northfield districts

● Stay & Play session leaders in the Northfield & Edgbaston districts

When: Wednesday 4th September 12.30pm – 3pm

Where: Weoley Castle Preschool – Enter via Hopstone Road entrance

Jervoise Road

Weoley Castle

B29 5QU

0121 4648238

For all booking enquiries please contact Rebecca Shrewsbury, Sounds of Play Champion for Edgbaston & Northfield:

Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

Tel: 07545 638085

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/

@PlaySoundsof

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

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Weoley Castle Pre School, Jervoise Road, Birmingham, United Kingdom