A Common Approach: Early Years Music

A brand new section of A Common Approach focusing on early years music will launch in April. Developed in conjunction with early years music educators across the UK, this material supports teachers who are music specialists, but not early years specialists, to begin to facilitate general music sessions in nursery and reception classes.

This session is aimed at all music teachers who want to find out more about the new materials. Come along to:

• Be introduced to A Common Approach by Catherine Brentnall (Editor and Coordinator of A Common Approach), including the existing instrumental and vocal content as well as the new early years content
• Hear from two members of the early years steering group, Sue Nicholls (Independent Music Education Consultant) and Sarah Wise (Freelance Music Educator and Consultant) about the early years materials
• Explore some of the new content practically
• Participate in group discussions about using this resource in your teaching.

Accessibility

• Technology: Zoom
• Captioning: AI-Generated
• Breakout rooms: No (there will be a Q&A).
• Recording: TBC.

If you would like to request presentation slides, questions and provocations in advance of the session, or have any accessibility needs you would like us to know in advance, please get in touch with us by emailing info@musicmark.org.uk. Please note that speakers may decline sharing details, slides and other information on the basis of protecting their intellectual property or for other reasons and we cannot therefore guarantee availability of these resources for all events.

We are aware some people use AI bots in Zoom meetings to support with note-taking or use this technology to make events more accessible to them. We support this, though ask you to notify us by email if you intent to do this, so we can distinguish between legitimate aids and apps and those which are not.