Date:     Thursday 14^th October 2010

 Venue:   Central Birmingham

 Tutor:    Ros Bayley

 Intended audience: 

Teachers and early year’s practitioners working in the Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1

Description:

A Beat Baby is not just a soft toy that has enormous potential to engage young children it is much, much more!

Although its original intention was that of supporting rhythm, rhyme and beat during music and rhyme sessions, over the years, Beat Baby has developed in many other exciting ways.

Practitioners across the world have used Beat Baby as a tool for developing learning across all areas of the early years curriculum.

Objectives:

This one-day course will explore ways in which Beat Baby can be used to develop:

The course will include comprehensive handouts that will enable you to take away the ideas and use them in your own setting.

So ... if you have a Beat Baby and want to make the most of it,

then this is the course for you!

Tutor:   Ros Bayley

Following an extensive career as an early year’s teacher Ros now works as an early year’s consultant, trainer and storyteller. Throughout her career she has devoted much time to developing children's communication skills through story, puppetry, music, dance and imaginative play, and has shared her strategies with practitioners both in the UK and abroad. A regular contributor to 'Practical Pre-School' and 'Early Years Educator,'  Ros is also the author of a number of resource books for early year’s practitioners, most of which are published by Lawrence Educational, (including all the Beat Baby materials!)  She has always believed that good communication skills are the foundation upon which all other learning is built and along with Sue Palmer, is the co-author of Foundations of Literacy.