Name: Music Making for Early Years - Stories - Gedling Library - Family Learning
Start: 2025-02-27T14:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-04-03T15:00:00+00:00
Location: Gedling Library

Music Making for Early Years - Stories - Gedling Library - Family Learning

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About this Event
Key details

Date: 27 February - 3 April 2025
Sessions: Thursdays: 2pm - 3pm
No. sessions: 6
Venue: Gedling Library, Nottingham
For ages: 19+
Group size: 5 - 16
Cost: FREE - £21

About this course

Join our fun family learning course aimed at families with babies and children under the age of 4. This practical course will give ideas about how to support your child with music. Music-making provides an engaging and enjoyable activity for everyone and is led by our friendly and experienced Primary Music Specialist and Jolly Music teacher.

All the EYMM course sessions are mapped to the Early Learning Goals and the 2020 Development Matters Guidelines.

Course Summary:

Our six-week curriculum theme is Story Songs and we’ll be celebrating World Book Day too. Don’t miss the story of the Three Little Pigs!
Learn the Jolly Phonics Phase 1 songs and actions to help with early literacy.
Build your own musical confidence in pulse and rhythm.
You’ll learn how to support your child to read and play simple musical rhythms.
Use key Makaton signs in songs helping support your child’s language development.

By the end of the course, you will have learned:

A range of strategies and activities for supporting their baby/child/ren with fun and interactive learning.

Resources required:

A blanket to sit on.
Water and snack.

Suggested Reading for the course:

Play and Learn with your Baby (The Baby Club) by Sally Smith ISBN 9780241410219
See-saw: first book of nursery songs by Allie Busby ISBN: 9781786284099
BBC Tiny Happy People

Booking your place and fee information

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will beoffered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which mayprevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our webpage for furtherinformation https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING, AND
Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required). As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas: