Music Making for Early Years - Water - Gedling Library - Adult Learning

Gedling Library, Gedling

Date	16 April - 21 May 2026
Sessions	Thursdays: 2pm - 3pm
No. sessions	6
Venue	Gedling Library, Gedling View venue details
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 16
Cost	FREE - £24

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. We have a water theme covering: the sea, ponds and all the creatures as well as rowing the boat (bonus verses!).

Come and meet the knitted frogs (they all have different names) to help us with our counting songs. All the EYMM course sessions are mapped to the Early Learning Goals and the 2020 Development Matters Guidelines. On this course, we will: Explore songs and instruments with your little one on the theme of water. 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 signs in songs, helping support your child’s language development.

What will learners achieve by the end of the course?

To keep a steady beat (heartbeat/pulse) to Jolly Music Songs: ‘Rain is Falling Down’.
Jolly Music - To clap/use instruments to tap the rhythm of a short piece of music using ‘frog and monkey’.
To sing and sign: turtle, frog, sea, boat, fish.
To sing the Jolly Phonic songs for Stage 1 and the actions for each letter sound.
To explore the guiro, rainstick and ocean drum instruments.
To use scarves and ribbons with ‘The Aquarium’ from The Carnival of the Animals.

What you will need to bring to the course:

Blanket to sit on.

Drink and snack.

Have a look at the books on the library catalogue about water such as:

Animal Swim School by Kate Peridot

Look What I Found at the Seaside by Moira Butterfield

Bea by the Sea by Jo Byatt

Also recommended:

Play and Learn with your Baby: Simple Activities with Amazing Benefits 649.122

Published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd

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.