Kettering Music Centre Website - Early Years
Music Maker
Music Maker classes at Kettering introduce children at an early age to music in an enjoyable and stimulating way that will be sustained later in life.
Music is a natural expression for every child. It helps to develop social skills and co-ordination and pays attention to the emotional development of the child as an individual. Even young babies respond to pitch and rhythm.
Research undertaken recently has suggested that social and academic development can be enhanced through extra time absorbing music.
Our Music Maker teacher is a specialist who has trained in the principles based on the Kodaly system of early childhood music education. The lessons are enjoyable and fun, using the child's own singing voice and sense of pulse, in a well-structured safe environment.
Classes
Ages 4/Reception - Robins
Musical activities include:- Singing and Vocal development using:-
a) Simple pentatonic songs
b) Nursery Rhymes
c) Action Ryhmes
d) Understanding contrasting musical concepts: high/low, fast/slow, loud/quiet, long/short, sound/silence
Creative Movement to Music using:-
a) story telling
b) Imagination
Rhythmic Development using
a) body percussion
b) simple percussion instruments
Classes
Year 1 Owls, Year 2 Swans
Activities as age 4/Reception including:-
a) solo singing
b) ensemble singing
c) ostinatos
d) phrasing and form using balls and ribbons
e) pitch work - using tuned percussion
f) notation
g) improvisation.
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