MUSICAL PLAY & PLAYING MUSICALLY MUSIC IN THE EYFS AND BEYOND
Hannah Luckins For Early Years Practitioners, the overarching principles of our Development Matters guidance are all too familiar, but for teachers or subject leaders looking to get a deeper grasp on children’s learning and starting points in their school career, it is a worthwhile reminder. Development Matters (and its partner document Musical Development Matters) emphasise the interrelatedness of a child’s early development under the headings of:
A Unique Child
Positive Relationships
Enabling Environments
Here, I hope to exemplify these principles in practice and give some ideas of how to build upon them as children move from EYFS into Key Stage One. This could be described as the development from ‘musical play’ to ‘playing musically.’
