Another date for your diaries! On Friday 17th November, 7pm-8pm Sorrel and Liz will be leading a FREE online festive songshare as we head towards Christmas! Grab a brew and bring along your favourite seasonal songs and musical activities to share with the group, and get ideas from others to add to your repertoire.
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Developing resources with the BBC
Over the past few months Note Weavers Directors Sally-Anne Brown, Vic Holmes and Zoe Greenhalgh have greatly enjoyed working with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra’s Digital and Learning team to develop their Musical Story of the Gingerbread Man, a short film for children with a series of associated activities for early years and key stage 1 settings.
Recorded at the recently renovated Queen’s Park Bandstand in Heywood the film features the Orchestra’s Early Ears Trio and is narrated by Radio 5 Live’s Nihal Arthanayake, and is scheduled for broadcast by CBeebies on Saturday 5th March 2022. It is also available to view via the BBC iPlayer:
To accompany the film the Note Weavers team have devised and written a range of activities and downloadable resources to support music delivery in Early Years and Key Stage 1 settings which are freely available via the BBC website
We hope you find these resources useful and welcome your comments via our social media channels:
Songs, Rhymes & Storytimes
Ben Lawrence
Children’s Librarian & Early Childhood Music Specialist
Saturday 14 May 2022,
Online, 09.30-11.00 £15
Picture books are some of the most useful and powerful tools for engaging children in the Early Years. This highly practical session led by Children’s Librarian and Early Childhood Music Specialist, Ben Lawrence will explore ways to combine songs and rhymes with picture books to engage and inspire young children. Find out top tips and discover different ways to bring stories alive through music and song and enable a positive experience of key musical concepts.
In this session Ben will be exploring the magical world of picture books and sharing stories with young children:
- Strategies for sharing stories in different ways
- How using pictures books can help embed music learning within early years provision
During the session there will be an opportunity to work in small groups, so please bring along your favourite picture books to share.
This session is suitable for all Early Years practitioners, Early Years Music Practitioners & others who lead family story time sessions in libraries & community settings.
Ben is Children’s Librarian for Calderdale Libraries and an Early Childhood Music Specialist. He is an Early Years methodology tutor for the British Kodály Academy & regularly presents at conferences & delivers training on using songs and rhymes for Children Centre and Early Years staff as well as Children’s Library professionals. He has recorded songs and rhymes for the charity Booktrust, for their National Bookstart Week celebrations and, with his colleague Shelley Bullas, he co-authored the chapter Music and Rhyme Time Sessions for the Early Years in the book “Library Services from Birth to Five: Delivering the Best Start” edited Carolynn Rankin and Avril Brock.
Twigs, Tunes & Tyres: Making Music Outdoors
Tuesday 15 March 2022,
Online 17.00-18.30 £15
Sally-Anne Brown
Following her highly popular session last year, Sally-Anne Brown returns to explore ways of working musically in outdoor spaces.
This session will look at:
- some of the challenges of delivering music outside and how to overcome them
- resources and musical activities which can be used in the outdoor environment
- ways to support families beyond the music session in their own creative outdoor music making.
This session is suitable for all Early Years practitioners.
Sally Anne Brown has been a freelance Early Years music practitioner since 2005 following an increasing interest in very young children’s musical interactions and experiences which she witnessed during over 25 years as a woodwind teacher. Sally Anne’s experience includes delivering both ‘open to all’ music sessions in Children’s Centres and community groups and more tailored sessions in nurseries, preschools and schools in North Yorkshire and East Lancashire. She have also worked for several charities on music projects supporting families with young children with visual impairment, with physical disabilities and children for whom English is an additional language. She is also a mentor on the CME:Early Childhood based at CREC in Birmingham.
Connecting Threads – The Big Sing!
Thursday 14th January 2021 from 7-8.30pm
An opportunity to share your favourite Early Years music material and pick up some fresh new ideas for the New Year.
We invite you to bring a song from each of the following categories:
- ‘Chant-a-rhyme.’
- ‘Your favourite prop songs.’
- ‘Simple songs that burst with endless possibilities.’
We will have 3 breakouts during the evening, one for each of these categories, and hope to put together a recorded archive of this new collection of songs and rhymes for those who attend.
Come and join us for some conversation and inspiration. We are looking forward to singing with you!
This is the 5th Connecting Threads session from Note Weavers
*Please be aware that this event is for North West England practitioners only.
Practical info
We’ll be using online video software Zoom, so please ensure you have downloaded the app on a desktop or mobile ahead of the session.
For security, we’re asking you to sign up via Eventbrite and you will be emailed the Zoom ID and password after you register.
Find out more about the Connecting Threads community here