The Jolly Melodies programme will take your child on a musical journey from birth to school age.
Jolly Babies – birth to 15 months
Jolly Toddlers – 15 months to 3+ years
Jolly Independent! – our independent 3 and 4 year olds!
Started in 1992 by husband-and-wife team, David and Diane Cox (a potent combination of professional musician and early years teacher), The Jolly Melodies Music Company (formerly known as ‘Music with Mummy’) has been delivering music to children up and down the country ever since!
With our wonderful unique music, as well as the traditional songs you and your child already know and love, our carefully structured weekly sessions provide the very best in early music education and exploration. In addition, our programme is carefully designed to target child development and early learning across other areas too: listening and language skills for example, social and emotional development, even, as our older class attendees start to gain readiness, early numeracy!
Our unique classes are deliberately kept small enough to feel all-inclusive and super-friendly and to enable the class leader to really get to know, and therefore get the very best from, your individual child.
Classes run all over the country by our carefully selected Jolly Melodies leaders. All have an enhanced DBS, full public liability insurance and regular safeguarding training. To find your nearest class click HERE! Or, if there is not yet a session in your local area, perhaps consider becoming a class leader yourself? Click HERE for further information.
And now your little one is ready for more! Each half-term, a different theme focuses our weekly class, our singing and activities – ‘Colours’ or ‘Transport’ for example! Musical learning is more concentrated too; we’ll gradually direct your child towards our clearly defined objectives but do so at a level suitable for the individual. We’ll sing, we’ll dance, we’ll bang the drum and shake the maracas and we will smile and laugh (a LOT!). You will be amazed at how much fun we can fit into our action-packed half hour together! Rhythm will develop as will confidence and independence plus we’ll keep on practising those all-important listening skills too.
Jolly Independent classes really are the icing on the Jolly Melodies cake! Themes are now mainly based on stories or great classical pieces such as ‘Peter and The Wolf’ or ‘The Carnival of the Animals’, and musical learning is extended even further with some basic drama skills now being added to the mix. And yes, you read that right – Jolly Independent! – children are now ready to attend these slightly longer sessions independently! We don’t want parents/carers to miss the fun totally; however, they are welcome to stay for our ‘sit in and share’ sessions, the final class of each half-term.