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.
Tag: Singing
Exploring Music & the Parent-Infant Relationship
Tuesday 1st November 2022
7-9pm (online), £15
Led by Georgina Roberts this CPD session will explore whether music can effectively support the parent-infant relationship.
As part of her MSc in Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Well-being, Georgina gathered a cross-section of service provider reflections on the effectiveness of music to support parent-infant relationships.
During the session Georgina will unpack her findings and promote discussion around three themes:
- what does ‘music’ mean in the context of parent-infant relationships
- reflections on terminology associated with parent-infant relationships
- considering the musical and non-musical approaches to support the parent-infant relationship.
This session is suitable for music practitioners, early years practitioners and parent-infant mental health practitioners
Have you read Georgina’s blog?
About Georgina Roberts
Georgina has been a freelance music therapist and early years music practitioner since 2011. She has worked extensively with children who have special educational needs and disabilities in a range of special school settings, delivering both individual and group based sessions.
Georgina has recently completed an MSc in Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Well-being at Edge Hill University. She has an interest in parent-infant mental health and perinatal mental health. She believes passionately that music can be used as a tool to support young children, help them connect with parents and others and break down barriers.
This session is part of the Note Weavers 2022 CPD series supported by Youth Music
SEND creative music making sessions at Bolton Central Library
Note Weavers Directors Georgina and Sorrel have been delivering a series of music sessions, working on behalf of Bolton Libraries and Museums Service. The family sessions were for early years children, and children with special educational needs and disabilities and were located at Bolton Museum and Smithills Hall.
All the sessions had a multi-sensory focus and incorporated musical games and activities, as well as giant scrunchies, scarves, lycra and soft toys, sensory balls, stories and musical instruments. Different rooms in the venues were used depending upon the needs of the children and their families.
Georgina and Sorrel had a fantastic time working with all the children and their families. A big shout out to Jacinta Frank and Charlotte Higham at Bolton Libraries and Museums Service for inviting us to deliver the sessions.
Feedback from families on the sessions was positive:
“The sessions were fantastic. It was great to be a part of something so inclusive where my child could express himself. Georgina tailored the sessions to fit the children who were attending and made sure they were engaged and happy. Since attending these sessions my son has seemed more confident and can often be heard singing the songs from sessions”.
“We loved it. My son can be difficult to engage, but he took part throughout”.
Charlotte Higham, Library Access Officer at Bolton Central Library said:
“The children who attended the sessions thoroughly enjoyed them and it was lovely to see the children who were reticent at the beginning of the session, fully joining in with the musical activities by the end.”
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.
Funding opportunities: Bursaries for CME:EC course
Note Weavers is inviting expressions of interest from Early Years Practitioners and Early Years Music Practitioners in the North West region who are interested in studying for the Level 4 Certificate for Music Educators: Early Childhood (CME:EC) qualification at the Centre for Research in Early Childhood (CREC).
Funding from Youth Music means we are able offer successful applicants:
- a significant bursary for the CME:EC course
- experience of leading a series of 10 music sessions in an early years setting with additional mentoring from Note Weavers.
Information about entry requirements* for the course can be found on the CREC website here
Bursary details:
The bursary is £1125 against the full course fee of £1550 and will be paid directly to CREC. If accepted onto the course, students will need to provide the remaining £425 from the start of the course (CREC payment plans are available). It is anticipated that employers may contribute and invest in their early years music provision.
The early years music delivery will involve 10 half days between January and March. Self-employed practitioners will be paid £45 per half day up to a total of £450.
Timescales
The CME:EC course begins in October 2021 and includes 4 compulsory face to face core learning days in Birmingham (COVID permitting): 28/29th October 2021, 14th February & 11th April 2022
This is a student led, practice based, part-time course. Please see the CREC website for specific details.
The associated early years music sessions will take place in the Spring term (January to March) and offer successful applicants an opportunity to develop their practice with additional mentoring from Note Weavers to contribute to and support learning on the course. The settings will be arranged once the four practitioners have been accepted.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: Midday Friday 23rd July 2021
Interviews will take place in the week commencing 6th September 2021
Want to ask a question? No problem, just contact Zoe Greenhalgh: zoe@noteweavers.org
*CME:EC course requirements include:
- GCSE English minimum Grade C (or equivalent)
- Prior musical experience
- DBS clearance (it is the student’s responsibility to obtain this before the start of the course)
Early Years Music Workshop
10th November 2019, Salford Quays
The sun shone and a good day was had by all playing singing games and rhymes led by Zoe Greenhalgh. Much was learnt along the way about musical development and early years pedagogy, not to mention many practical hints and suggestions about delivery skills and group management. The feedback was 100% positive including comments such as: “Really useful, accessible, welcoming environment – I’ve learnt loads!”and “An enjoyable and easy going day – Well paced, lots of good advice & ideas”.
Progression in music learning was one of the themes of the day with discussion on the ways in which each song/activity can be developed and added complexity to extend learning or for use with children of other ages/stages of development.
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- “Clap your hands & say goodbye”
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- Showing the rhythm
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- Actions in pairs
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- Copy Cat
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- Salford Quays
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- Walking the steady beat
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- Using Lycra
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- Changing partners in a circle
This Note Weavers event is organised association with MALPAS
