About Kate
Creating music and movement opportunities for two-year-olds & their grown-ups
Two-year-olds are tenacious, capable, gritty, hilarious, playful and inspiring. This is why I love spending time with them.
I value parents and carers as the most important adults in children’s lives, which is why I involve them in all of my projects.
More about my work and experience
- I am an early years music specialist with 20+ years’ experience.
- I play flute, ukulele and djembe.
- I offer music and movement play opportunities for two-year-olds and their adults.
- I have worked in a wide variety of early years settings. This has often been in a two-year-offer provision.
- I enjoy collaboration and partnership working.
- I always work with parents and carers, and work alongside early years practitioners.
- Historically, I have worked in one setting with one group of families for up to a year. This allowed me to build great relationships and for project work to have legacy.
- I incorporate action research into all project work, and have worked with Dr. Jessica Pitt. Dr. Susan Young is working with me at the moment, with a particular interest in digital technologies.
My work in action
These short video clips show my work-in-action with children in the room. See how they respond to different offers.
The videos are from Music Moves On project work in Riverside Ready for School provision for two-year-olds in North Shields. I worked with these children for seven months in 2023.
Our Music Moves online sharing event
Hosted by Culture Bridge North East: exploring engagement of two- and three-year-olds in music and movement play.
In this short clip I talk about the project, and we reflect on video of the work-in-action.
We hear from the early years practitioners on the floor who facilitated the work.
This was designed to be a Covid-19 recovery project, so we discuss this too. Turn-taking comes up as a huge learning point for me as a music practitioner.
This full online CPD session is free to watch in full. Use the player controls to hear from all of these amazing people…
Who you’ll hear from
Early years practitioners Annie and Libby talk about how the project was on the ground.
Lesley Forrester explains her animal assisted work, supported by speech and language for all approaches.
Head teacher John Croft talks honestly about what it is like to host an early years music project like this one.
Dr. Jessica Pitt shares our research findings, and Gwyneth Lamb, our external evaluator, closes with some powerful words of wisdom.