Training & Consultancy
We offer a range of Training Programmes for artist-educators, teachers and educators, with a particular specialism in Early Years. As well as the options below, we can also create a bespoke training session or package so please get in touch and we can create something to meet your needs.
Book a Discovery Call
Email us to book a free, no obligation discovery call to discuss how we can help - we’ll get back to you within 24 hours to arrange a time.
Early Years CPD courses
Inclusive music: communication & connection
In this session we'll share our learning from our collaborations with NHS speech and language therapists and Early Years Practitioners.
You'll learn:
- How to make circle time accessible and fun for all children
- Child-led and responsive approaches to music that support children’s learning across the nursery
- How to use music to honour children's identities and interests
- Singing as communication
- Tools and techniques for deep interaction including non-verbally
Online 1.5 hours - £225
In person 2.5 hours - £450
Musical Play and Interaction
In this session we'll explore together questions such as:
- What does children’s musical play look like?
- How often does musical play get spotted in your setting?
We'll share some frameworks to help you observe children's play with singing, instruments and soundmakers, as well as to spot the musicality embedded in all their types of play across the nursery.
Through reflecting together on video examples, you'll learn how tuning in to children's musical play can offer new tools for engagement and interaction.
Online 1.5 hours - £225
Music across the EYFS
In this full day session we'll introduce:
- How music is interwoven with the prime and specific areas of learning
- How music can help understand the unique child and nurture positive relationships
- What enabling environments for music look like
- What learning & development in music looks like
- The characteristics of effective learning in music
The course includes a mix of theory, reflection and discussion and practical activities, as well as troubleshooting and helpful hints and tips!
In person full day - £850
Sustainable Songs
In this practical session you'll learn how to play with songs and activities, so that rather than needing to learn 100 different songs, you'll have songs you can do 100 different ways (or more!).
During the session, you will:
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Be introduced to key musical elements and “ingredients”
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Explore how the characteristics of effective learning can inspire creative approaches to songs
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Begin simple songwriting, designed to be accessible even for those with little or no confidence
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Discover ways to encourage children to take the lead in singing and songwriting
You’ll leave the session feeling inspired, equipped with practical ideas, and confident!
In person 2.5 hours - £450
Refresh your practice!
This session will help you to take an inventory of your music provision and practice, and inspire you to set some goals - and of course we'll introduce some exciting ideas to set you on your way!
We'll offer a simple framework for reflection and offer some provocations around using music with:
- Loose parts and open-ended resources
- Dance
- Art and mark-making
- Stories
- Finding the music that your staff, children and families love and get everyone involved!
...and more!
In person 2.5 hours - £450
All profits from these training courses are used to subsidise our Early Years programmes in settings, and with families, in parts of London where children have least access to high quality music making provision.
Previous CPD courses
We recently delivered a 4-session CPD course exploring music and communication (see below for more information). If you’d be interested in this or similar training, please contact us.
Session 1: Music and Communication
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Learn how children use music and musical behaviour to underpin language development and social behaviours.
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Deepen your understanding of what music and young children’s self-expressed and creative musical engagement can look like, and why it matters.
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Learn easy tools and ideas that will be immediately useful in your settings.
Session 2: Making music accessible, inclusive and manageable in the EYFS
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In this fun practical session exploring the elements of music, you will;
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Increase your understanding of the application and significance of the elements of music in our observations.
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Explore how we can support music-making in different learning spaces, manage and create an enabling musical environment.
Session 3: The characteristics of effective learning in music
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This pedagogically informed session will explore the adult’s role in musical play, and sharing and sustaining children’s music thinking.
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Develop an understanding of how to engage and support children’s musical play.
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Explore different ways of approaching musical activities.
Session 4: Music and Stories
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A creative session using stories as a starting point for a musical journey that supports children’s reading, writing and language development through their imaginations and creative play.