Music and Me is a fun-filled programme of developmental, creative play for younger children.
Music and Me uses music, songs, stories, and sounds to engage young children in exploring the environment around them… helping them to listen and learn.
All of the activities included in this evidence-based programme have been developed and refined over the last 15 years, as the culture of the nursery settings and, of course, the needs and preferences of the children evolve.
Although the presentation style is very playful, inclusive of every child, and often driven by the children’s own ideas, it is very focussed on supporting the development of key skills across many domains, some of which are listed below.
Through a process of collaboration with nursery practitioners and on-going evaluation, Music and Me has become a valuable, evidence-based resource to support and enhance children’s early learning experiences at this critical stage in their development.
Emotional and social skills:
- Sharing and turn-taking
- carrying out instructions
- leading and following
- co-operation and collaboration
- communication and self-expression
- self-confidence
Cognitive pre-reading skills:
- fine listening
- discriminating between sounds
- comparing and contrasting sounds
- recognising the same and different sounds
- auditory pattern recognition
- auditory memory
- phonological awareness
For more information and/or to book Music and Me sessions for your school, please contact us by email via the Contact page.
BUY YOUR COPIES OF THE MUSIC AND ME TEACHER RESOURCE PACK
The Music and Me resource pack is available to order at £25.00 per copy (including p&p).
The pack contains lots of ideas for games, exercises, songs and stories that encourage active participation in music-making in nursery settings.
To order your copies via Paypal, visit the Send/request section of the Paypal site and search for @DavidTroutonEWM
Send your payment for the number of copies you require and remember to leave us your contact details and delivery address in the ‘message ‘notes’ section so we can post them out to you by return.
Or to arrange your purchase by cheque or another method, please contact us via the Contact page and we will be in touch asap.
“Music and Me is a wonderful pack that has been rolled out to every nursery in West Lothian with associated workshops and CPD sessions for teachers.
It’s a wonderfully written book with easy to follow symbols and suggestions providing lots of ideas on warm up games and active listening to stories and sounds all accompanied with music on a CD. There is now no excuse for any nursery pupil not to be hopping like a rabbit or scurrying like a mouse to music with a confident teacher leading the way!”
Cultural Co-ordinator, West Lothian Council
engagewithmusic 
Well done Dave – The chidren, staff and I are still enjoying using Music & Me. It’s a fantastic resource & I’d recommend it to any nursery.
Best Wishes
Issi
I am the pre school supervisor at big bird nursery in whitburn, west Lothian and I am looking for some more information about your ‘music and me’ Cpd training. Can you let me know the cost, what it includes and how the training would be set up? Music and me looks so exciting and I think our nursery would greatly benefit from our staff taking part in your training as we are currently concentrating on developing out literacy within the pre school room.
Thanks
Susan carruthers