Let's Play Sharing 'SoundWaves': Creating an enabling early years musical environment

Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 

Time: 9.30-11.30am 

Free online event for early years practitioners 

About this session: 

SoundWaves Network SW programme is underpinned by the ambition that all young children experience the very best musical opportunities. We believe children arrive in our EYFS settings as spontaneous creative music makers. As practitioners, we don’t need to start from scratch when we ‘do’ music, but support, reinforce and extend what our very youngest can already do. This session will consider ways of fostering musical play in your EYFS enabling environment. Jane will share with us rhymes, songs and ideas to support children’s innate musicality. We will also observe short films of young children’s spontaneous music making and reflect on our role as the practitioner. Finally, there will also be space for reflections and discussions on our own skills, confidence.

Speaker Biography - Jane Parker

Jane comes with a wealth of specialist early years music experience and knowledge, as a project coordinator, an educator and a researcher practitioner with very young children. She firmly believes we should recognise in all our work and resources, that everyone is born creative.

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 sector. Jane is project manager for Take Art’s SoundWaves Network SW. She is also Course Director and one of the tutors on the Certificate for Music Educators (CME): Early Childhood course based at CREC (Centre for Research in Early Childhood) in Birmingham.

She also values and enjoys working with a range of partners on Take Art’s other early years creativity programmes. Jane is currently artist mentor and assistant researcher on ‘Making & Believing’ – an action research Paul Hamlyn funded early childhood arts programme working with partners in Surrey, Derby and Somerset.

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