Key details
- Date: 5 June - 10 July 2024
- Sessions: Wednesdays: 1:30pm - 2:30pm
- No. sessions: 6
- Venue: Arnold Library, Nottingham
- For ages: 19+
- Group size: 5 - 16
- Cost: FREE - £18
About this course
Join our fun family learning course aimed at families with babies and children under the age of 5. This practical course will give ideas about how to support your child with music. Music-making provides an engaging and enjoyable activity for everyone and is led by a friendly and experienced Primary Music Specialist and Jolly Music teacher.
All the EYMM course sessions are mapped to the Early Learning Goals and the 2020 Development Matters Guidelines.
What will be covered on the course?
- Our six-week curriculum theme is animals and we’ll be telling the musical story of ‘Handa’s Surprise’ too
- You’ll learn songs and rhymes both familiar and brand new on our curriculum theme.
- Build your own musical confidence in pulse and rhythm.
- Explore African instruments.
- Use Makaton signs in songs.
What will learners achieve by the end of the course?
- A range of strategies and activities for supporting their baby/children with fun and interactive learning.
Learners can bring a rattle/shaker or simple musical instruments if they prefer.
- Blanket to sit on.
- Water and a snack for their child and themselves.
Suggested Reading for the course -
Handa’s Surprise by Eileen Browne
Title: See-saw : first book of nursery songs
Author: Busby, Ailie.
Title: Pat-a-cake : first book of nursery rhymes
Author: Busby, Ailie.
The Usborne big book of nursery rhymes
Publication Date 2020
Hickory dickory dock and other favourite nursery rhymes
Publication Date 2018
There are 8 adult and 8 child places
Booking your place and fee information
If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course please visit our webpage for further information https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/
To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:
- Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING.
- Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.
You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.
To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.
Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).
As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:
- Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
- Greater London
- Greater Manchester
- Liverpool City Region
- Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
- Tees Valley
- West of England
- West Midlands
- West Yorkshire
Any questions?
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Book your place
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