NOWRA Regional: Play Sing Grow - Joyful Music Making in the Early Years

This workshop gives teachers without a musical background, who have lost touch with the joy and benefits of music making - the skills and confidence they need to create engaging musical experiences for children under five years. Ruth will take you on a journey on how to take songs, rhymes and carefully selected recorded music, and utilise them across all age groups; how to match the developmental level of each child and create meaningful, truly joyous musical moments that are easy to replicate.

In this session, you will:

  • develop a deeper understanding of what musical outcomes are achievable in the early years
  • learn the skills needed to use known repertoire and musical examples to create meaningful, developmentally appropriate, sequential musical moments
  • make all the links to the EYLF
  • confidently be able to apply these musical and teaching strategies in multi-age settings
  • apply these organisational strategies to your own favourite repertoire
  • rediscover the joy and benefit of including music in your centres

 

Recommended audience: Early Childhood Educators, Childcare workers, Family day care staff & anyone who works in the Early Childhood Sector.

    • $90

    • Date

      Thu 12 November
      6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

    • Location

      Nowra

    • Presented by

      • Ruth Thompson
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About the presenters

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    Ruth Thompson

    Music education has been at the heart of Ruth’s teaching career for over 30 years now. Initially trained as an Early Childhood Teacher, her natural love of music and singing meant offering developmental and sequential musical experiences in all her classrooms. Her career has led her into early childhood settings, infants and primary school and private colleges, as well as being called upon regularly to deliver music education to teachers.

    Taking up full time work as a Classroom Music Specialist in Qld in the early 1990s led her into further studies with University of Qld and Kodàly Music Education Institute of Australia. The philosophy of Kodàly, “music for children, music for life”, has inspired her own practice and led her to design her own dynamic syllabus in use at Early Years Music School, using a developmental and sequential framework.

    “Specialisation in early childhood and music education, has enabled me to deepen my understanding of the value of music development in children as young as babies, and the immense impact it has on their learning, language development, socialisation, physical and emotional well-being, identity and self-expression.”

    Ruth’s research-based syllabus is aligned to the Early Years Learning Framework and is woven together with her own passion, dedication, creativity and love of her job.