Nursery World - In tune

Tailor musical experiences in your setting by providing age-specific activities that maximise potential learning opportunities. Dr Susan Young explains how As we have seen (page 16), early years settings may choose to plan children's musical activities around four categories - voices, instruments, recorded music and dance. But what is developmentally appropriate for a young child? And what support do practitioners need to give to promote that musical development?

As we have seen (page 16), early years settings may choose to plan children's musical activities around four categories - voices, instruments, recorded music and dance. But what is developmentally appropriate for a young child? And what support do practitioners need to give to promote that musical development?

Giving stages and ages of musical development is difficult, since children live in different environments and progress individually. There is also a growing realisation that younger children are far more competent than they were given credit for in the past. However, some sense of how children will develop musically is useful to inform planning.

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