Music Making for Early Years - Nursery Rhymes and Christmas - Mansfield Central Library - Adult Learning

Mansfield Central Library, West Gate

Date	5 November - 3 December 2025
Sessions	Wednesdays: 2pm - 3pm
No. sessions	5
Venue	Mansfield Central Library, West Gate View venue details
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 15
Cost	FREE - £20

About this course

Join our fun family learning course aimed at families with babies and children under the age of 4. This practical course will give ideas about how to support your child with music. Music-making provides an engaging and enjoyable activity for everyone and is led by our friendly and experienced Primary Music Specialist and Jolly Music teacher. There’s a reason why Nursery Rhymes have been around for centuries because they are brilliant for boosting language development, counting and vocabulary.

We will start with a Nursery Rhyme theme for the first three weeks of the course followed by our Christmas theme where we explore the Nutcracker Ballet with props and instruments. All the EYMM course sessions are mapped to the Early Learning Goals and the 2020 Development Matters Guidelines.

What will be covered on the course? -

Celebrate World Nursery Rhyme Week with songs and certificates!
Explore Nutcracker ballet music with your little one
Build your own musical confidence in pulse and rhythm
You’ll learn how to support your child by reading and playing simple musical rhythms
Use key Makaton signs in songs to help support your child’s language development

What will learners achieve by the end of the course? -

To have fun and spend quality time with your child/ren learning together and bonding
To feel and demonstrate the pulse (heartbeat) of a piece of music and support your child to work towards this (using Jolly Music)
To use the signs for: hello, what, star, spider, ship, cow, pig, sheep, duck
To clap/use instruments to tap the rhythm of a short piece of music using ‘frog and monkey’
To widen your own repertoire of songs and rhymes using the Jolly Music approach of tunes with a small range of notes
To develop your own phonic skills and knowledge using songs, movement and a range of strategies using Jolly Phonics stage 1

Please bring to the course with you:-

1) Blanket to sit on

2) Drink and snack

Booking your place and fee information

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Greater London
Greater Manchester
Liverpool City Region
Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
Tees Valley
West of England
West Midlands
West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course
Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office
You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014

Any learner who is not funded full cost fees would apply to these courses.