Music Express - Foundation Stage

The Music Express Foundation Stage provides a two-year rolling programme of active, holistic and play-based teaching for 3-5 year olds; it implements the QCA Foundation Stage Curriculum guidance for music.

Subjects covered include: 'Special people', 'Going places', 'Moving patterns', 'Working world', 'Growth and change' and 'Our senses'. Within each unit there are four progressive activities which take children through the stepping stones coloured yellow, blue and green, to the grey of an Early Learning Goal.

This is a child-centred resource, building up from a very rudimentary beginning. The pack includes two CDs containing 96 tracks of songs, chants, stories, poems and listening resources.

On the CD-ROMs there are video clips for the children to watch, example clips of practitioners using the material with their children and video clips of a range of useful instruments. There is also an extensive full-colour picture gallery of printable images, some of which are interactive.

All the melody lines of songs are given as an aid to music readers. Single printouts of these and all the story texts may be made for use within the setting. In addition, the CD-ROM contains a carefully cross-referenced directory of the Learning Intentions behind each of the activities.

This is a resource which has been written for Foundation Stage Practitioners and assumes no prior musical knowledge or experience. No music reading is required! Music Express Foundation Stage provides a solid basis on which to continue building children's skills, understanding and enjoyment of music.

It leads directly into Music Express Years 1-6 which follows the English QCA scheme of work for music, and provides complete coverage of the Music National Curriculums of England, Wales and Northern Ireland and the 5-14 National Guidelines for Scotland.

Book (84pp) with CD-ROM/3CD.