Bristol Beacon Early Years Network: Training and Round Table

Do you work in Early Years in Bristol and would like to find out more about making music in Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) settings? Come and join us for this session to receive training with Jane Parker, who works with industry leaders TakeArt.

We will then follow the session with a round table with Bristol Beacon. We want to know your thoughts around Early Years Music, and specifically what Bristol Beacon can do to support music in your EYFS setting.

What will you learn?

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 and perceptions of music.

Session leader: 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. As well as project managing Take Art’s ‘The SoundWaves Network South West’ (a Youth Music Early Years Music Programme) Jane 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 also 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.

Networking opportunities: round table

Chaired by member of the Bristol Beacon team, we will then open up the floor for people to share experiences regarding their Early Years practice. We are particularly interested in engaging with those who would like to develop their music practice. All Early Years practitioners very welcome!

If you have any interest in attending this free event, please get in contact via the Expression of Interest form below.