#letsshine

"𝑻𝒖 𝒏𝒂𝒊𝒔 𝑻𝒐𝒊, 𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒖 𝒏𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒐𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒄𝒆 𝒒𝒖𝒊 𝒏'𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑻𝒐𝒊."

𝚃𝚞 𝚎𝚜 𝚞𝚗𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚗𝚎 à 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒è𝚛𝚎, 𝚝𝚞 𝚎𝚜 𝚞𝚗𝚎 â𝚖𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚗é𝚎 𝚜𝚞𝚛 𝚃𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚎, 𝚊𝚞 𝚖ê𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚒𝚝𝚛𝚎 𝚚𝚞𝚎 𝙽𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝚝𝚘𝚞𝚜. 𝚃𝚞 𝚊𝚜 𝚕𝚎 𝚍𝚛𝚘𝚒𝚝 𝚍𝚎 𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚒𝚜𝚒𝚛 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚞 𝚟𝚎𝚞𝚡 𝚟𝚒𝚟𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚊 𝚅𝚒𝚎, 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚕'𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚕𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚛, 𝚕𝚊 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚛, 𝚕'𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚛...

𝚀𝚞𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚎 𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚝𝚊 𝙼𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚍𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚎 ? 𝚀𝚞'𝚎𝚜𝚝-𝚌𝚎 𝚚𝚞𝚒 𝚝𝚎 𝚏𝚊𝚒𝚝 𝚟𝚒𝚋𝚛𝚎𝚛 ? 𝚀𝚞'𝚎𝚜𝚝-𝚌𝚎 𝚚𝚞𝚎 𝚝𝚞 𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚞 𝙼𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚎 𝚎𝚝 𝚚𝚞'𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚌𝚎 𝚚𝚞𝚎 𝚕𝚎 𝙼𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚎 𝚊 à 𝚝'𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚎𝚛 ?

𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐕𝐄𝐔𝐗-𝐓𝐔 𝐕𝐈𝐕𝐑𝐄 ?

𝚂𝚎𝚗𝚜-𝚃𝚘𝚒 𝙻𝚒𝚋𝚛𝚎 𝚍𝚎 𝚕𝚎 𝙳é𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚟𝚛𝚒𝚛 & 𝚁𝚎𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚝𝚊 𝙿𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝙾𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚎

🎥 | 𝑁'𝑜𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑒 𝑗𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑠 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑡𝑢 𝑒𝑠 𝑙'𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑢 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑚 𝑑𝑒 𝑡𝑎 𝑉𝑖𝑒

Iʟ ᴇsᴛ ᴛᴇᴍᴘs ᴅᴇ Bʀɪʟʟᴇʀ ✨️

𝐸𝑡 𝑇𝑜𝑖, 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑦é 𝑑𝑒 𝑡'𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟, 𝑑'𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠é𝑒𝑠﹠ 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡é 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑡𝑢 𝑛𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐é𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡﹖

Today my friend Kirsty and I launched a new monthly music workshop for children with SEND (special education needs and disabilities). We had noticed that there was nothing else like this in our area, so we decided to take our experiences working in music and with children with SEND to create sessions which were aimed specifically at children with SEND. Today’s launching session was a great success - all the children and parents enjoyed themselves. Reflecting on the session we have come up with some ideas to improve the structure of the session next month.

Here is what I’ve learnt today:

Parents of children with SEND want these kinds of sessions to be held. It’s somewhere to take their child to have experiences without the fear of their child not joining in. We don’t mind if children don’t join in with every activity!

Music is beneficial to everyone (I didn’t just learn this today!). Every child should have access to musical groups - piano lessons, choirs, music workshops. It doesn’t matter what the group is, so long as they have some kind of musical education.

We taught the concepts of rhythm, tempo, pulse and dynamics to children who are non-verbal (or with limited speech) through movement, actions, listening to music and games. If children can’t communicate with you with speech, that does not mean they don’t understand.

Parents are an amazing tool to help facilitate sessions. I always encourage parental involvement (parents are asked to watch the piano lessons I give and children can sing in my choir if the parent also sings) and the power of that has been proven this morning. The parents were able to help children do actions, move instruments or props, encourage participation, reassure and sing along. This made a huge difference to the children’s experience.

A smile is worth a thousand words. The look on the children’s faces this morning, when they found the activity they liked best, made my day.

A hug is worth a million thank yous.