Penguin Music
Liz Nicholas MRes, BMus (Hons)
Sessions for Early Years and Primary schools.
Workshop Leader
Home Ed sessions
Why would I want to use Kodály?
Head Teachers and Music Coordinators
The Kodály approach to music education offers schools the opportunity to have a music curriculum which progresses across the year groups.
It is all inclusive as it covers all learning styles and progresses in logical steps over time to allow all children to become confident musicians.
There are so many studies which explain all the other benefits of providing children with music education such as emotional develoment, confidence building and the impact upon other subjects. As we work through songs and rhymes it can develop language skills and communication with turn taking and sharing through songs and games.
Most importantly this approach not only offers all of the above and more to your pupils but it will deliver confident musicians who are able to not only sing well, but will be able to read well and write well. They will be able to hear music and not only echo it but analyse the form and the rhythm and pitches used.
The skills they learn will not only apply to one instrument, they will apply to all instruments making your children real musicians.
Best of all, this is taught fundametally through the voice, songs and games so there is no cost to schools for instruments.
Hubs and Music Services
Through offering Kodály Training to your current staff you can develop their personal musicianship. Kodály said that it was about teaching the teacher to be a good musician, then they will pass it on sucessfully.
This approach, all the elements mentioned above can be taught to adults, this is not just a primary school initiative, it can be used throughout all levels of music.
If teachers understand the process through experiencing it themselves they will be more successful in their own teaching.