Target Audience
Early Years Practitioners
Course Outline
Sharing songs and rhymes with our children is one of the best ways we have of encouraging their communication and language skills.
This practical workshop is about how to use music making to enhance language development and communication.
Delegates will:
- Learn new highly enjoyable and memorable songs and rhymes
Learn how this material helps the development of phonological awareness both in hearing and speaking
Learn how to relate their musical activities to each aspect of Letters and Sounds – Phase 1
Learn ways to make effective use of this material as well as the songs they already know to promote communication and language development
As well as a comprehensive handout with all the lyrics and ideas in the course practitioners will be able to access recordings of all the songs, rhymes and games online after the course at https://stevegrocott.bandcamp.com/
Steve Grocott
Steve is a professional musician, composer and qualified teacher who specialises in music and storytelling in the Early Years. He has appeared on television, radio and concert venues throughout the country and recorded many CDs for the Educational publishers A&C Black including the widely used Music Express and Singing Phonics series.
He has given practitioner training for over twenty institutions and universities including local authorities, The Institute for Education, The Child-minders Association and for The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, who use his CDs in their own courses.
He has written articles for publications such as Nursery World and presented papers to conferences for BECERA the British Early Childhood Education Research Association and is a trustee of MERYC Music Educators and Researchers of Young Children.
During thirty years of making music in Early Years settings he has collected and recorded more than a hundred tried and tested songs, games, rhymes and stories for his Sparks series and Story Song CDs that form a basis for his courses. The material is accessible, infectious and multicultural ensuring that practitioners are keen to share it with their children.
Date: Tuesday 4 October 2022
Time: 10am – 3.30pm
Venue: Hounslow Professional Development Centre, 78 St John’s Road, Isleworth, TW7 6RU
Cost: £15 per delegate (childminders, day nurseries, playgroups)
£75 per delegate (maintained & non-maintained schools)
Facilitator: Steve Grocot