“Lots of ideas to keep and use in the future. Different ways of thinking about schemas, that you may not even have thought about before. Like the use of songs we all know such as "driving in your car" and music such as zorba the greek will be just fantastic to do our music and dancing with. Much better than just dancing to same old songs and nursery rhymes that we usually use.”

Kathy's childminding

“I really enjoyed all the different types of recorded songs. Such a variety and has given me new fresh ideas. I was looking for a friendship ring for months and thank you for the link, I purchased one. I like that I will be able to go back into the training to go over ideas as my group develops. It was quick and easy to go into each video and you have a lovely voice so could watch all the videos one after the other. I also like that they were quick and straight to the point. It has also given me great ideas for resources. I think that having a training that is detailed but quick means you dont skip parts and being a visual learner watching the video and seeing the info underneath was great for me.”

Rachel Kirkpatrick

Rose Wellbeing Therapies

“I enjoyed finding out different ways to engage children in music sessions and have taken on board all the new resources we can use in our nursery.”

Kirsty Watts

One Parent Families Scotland - Falkirk working with 2-3 year old children

“The printable hand out with extendable ideas is very useful. The music links and where to purchase them and props as well as the printable props all very useful”

Kathryn Evans

“In response to: what did you enjoy/like/find useful about the training?
Instruments to pre recorded music .. love the earth / moon. Projected on to the wall. Adding ribbons cogs spiders to parachute.”

Belinda Spruce

Great Haywood Under Fives

“Lots of new ideas of different ways to encourage the children to join in with music”

Sharon Webb

Filey Childcare

“Hi Anne really enjoyed the training especially the songs/rhymes. i am looking forward to introducing new actions and movements to these songs and rhymes.”

Sharon

“In response to, what did you enjoy/like/find useful about the training? The examples of songs and activities. The resources and links on where to find things.”

Alison Jagger

“I’m a speech and language therapist and found this very inspiring. Its really useful for me to link the basic concepts and language I target in my sessions to the child’s development and schemas. Music is a great way to develop focus and joint attention, I look forward to planning some music sessions to target both schemas and language development. Thank you.”

Liz

Speech and Language Therapist Manchester

“Very interesting in how schemas link to music things I hadn't thought of.”

Rebecca Mitchell

Scallywags Nursery

“I love the idea of the children lying underneath the parachute. I will be amending one of our parachutes and look forward to introducing the avengers activity too!”

Tina Hooper

Ladybirds Pre-school

“In response to, what did you enjoy/like/find useful about the training?
Linking the schemas with the songs, actions and movements we do already; and coming up with new ideas.”

Charlotte Roberts

Dudley Pre-School

“It was very useful to see how what I do links to the different schemas. we use rhymes every day and sometimes even movement in our setting but I did not realise this was linked to schemas. This training has been very helpful and I have gained extra knowledge and ideas to use with the children at rhyme time.”

Helen

“I enjoyed it all, you don’t realise just how much you can get out of a bit of music.”

Niki Taylor

Just kidz nursery

“I thought the course was very useful with some great ideas that could be implemented within the setting, I found all the links and print out information great for future reference when needed. I love all the prop ideas that could be used in the rhymes we use most days i cant wait to put them into practice.”

Clare Flint

Cally Smith Childcare Ltd

“Easy to follow, good use of props and how we use them practically. Very informative. Excellent delivery.”

Louise Burland

Pre-School Leader Pear Tree Mead Academy

“I thought that this was a fabulous training. It gave me lots of food for thought on how I can implement lots of varying musical activities in my nursery class, responding to the children's age and stage of development. Hopefully inspiring them to experience music in lots of varying genres, using it as enjoyment and to relax.”

Margaret Elliott

Early years practitioner

“The training was very detailed and informative. I have already used some of the ideas and activities within my setting and it was lovely to see the children who wanted to participate. Music is so inclusive and even with my terrible singing voice, children wanted to join in which as gives me the confidence to continue as the children do respond well to music, movement, rhyme, and rhythm.
Thank you so much for the ideas and resources/links provided.”

J.Shaw

“I'd never heard of the friendship ring so I will be keen to try this out!
I found the information on schemas really interesting - I'm a primary and secondary trained music teacher but this has given me lots of ideas for the younger children I am now interacting with.”

Jayne