Learning & Development: Music - The great connector

Nursery World, 10 January 2008

Music sessions will stimulate and build on one of the most powerful natural resources, says Steve Grocott.

Whenever we think of people getting together, in family groups for birthdays and weddings or at larger gatherings like football matches and festivals, we imagine music as part of the scene. We talk about being 'in step' with each other and 'in tune' with somebody. If things are going well, we are 'singing from the same hymn sheet' and 'in harmony'. When we talk to each other it is the musical elements in our speech that communicate how we are feeling or whether...

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