Age 3-4 - EY B1

Choose vocal sounds to match objects or pictures or to enhance storytelling

Use children’s chosen sounds to inspire a song, e.g. adapting ‘The Wheels on the Bus’ to ‘The car on the road goes screech screech screech.’

Valuing children’s suggestions can support early composition skills.

Invite children to make vocal sounds to enhance storytelling, e.g. using tongue clicks to represent the goats crossing the bridge in The Three Billy-Goats Gruff.

Encourage nursery/school staff to engage in vocal exploration in an informal way in continuous provision, e.g. as part of role play, or when reading a book.

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Age 4-5 - EY B1

Understand that vocal sounds can be controlled and create different moods, scenes, characters

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Age 3-4 - EY B2

Explore and create gross motor body percussion, e.g. clapping, stamping, jumping

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