Collins Primary Music – Early Years Foundation Stage

I ordered this book for my niece, who has just started her career as an Early Years Teacher. This is a lovely resource, offering helpful strategies to encourage musicality as well as exploring the song themes across all areas of the curriculum. The book is set out in clear sections - ideas for enhancing play, the learning outcomes and the song itself. Based on familiar traditional songs, this is a fabulous teaching resource. The book also contains a CD with the music and songs from the book. This is an excellent resource for teachers, Nursery Practitioners and Home Schoolers.

I struggle to imagine which children would really like this kind of music and songs, to be honest. I think the world is pretty scary as it is without bringing the feeling into the classroom. The music is some sort of doom techno with a twist into a parody on Gothic rock... well, not all songs but a few. Why do that to a child? Childhood is the only time in a person's life when they can let their hair down, finger into their nose and drools coming down freely - why spoil all this wonderful existence by introducing them to an eyeliner and the context of the dark, even in its lightest form of Deine Lakaien (no, they are not on the CD, surprisingly).The idea is nice, the layout of the book is alright, the suggestions are ok, too. But the contents..

🥁 ‘A brand-new resource which supports Early Years practitioners to deliver the 2021 reformed statutory framework ~ through music!’The current stock images + the ’LOOK INSIDE’ facility above give an idea of the layout, including the INTRODUCTION that explains the aims of this refreshing publication.ooOooMeasuring around 29 cm x 21.5 cm the colourful card cover opens to 56 good quality, matte finish pages, split over 12 main sections ('starting points'), in black & white throughout.The CD is inside the front cover.From the back cover:🎵 ‘Delivering the EYFS through music’COLLINS PRIMARY MUSIC Early Years Foundation Stage is a child-centric, holistic resource, full of delightful songs and inspired activities for children aged 3–5.Pack includes: ✔️ BOOK with: • 12 'starting points' stemming from children's interests, which can be used in any order, with each one offering progression across the age range. • Ideas and activities for enhancing ‘continuous provision’, musical learning and all areas of learning and development (for ages 3-4 and 4-5) • Stories and poems • Songs and chant lyrics, ✔️ AUDIO CD with: • Story and poem narrations • Specially-written song and chants (performance tracks) • Demonstrations of traditional tunes with new lyrics • Listening music ✔️ DOWNLOADS: Everything included on the CD plus: • Specially-written songs and chants (performance tracks) • Melody lines and chords for all the songs • Videos and atmospheric listening tracks • Templates, images, vocabulary, related reading and songs • Activities for ‘home-learning’ • Observations, assessment and planning support15 images attached ©HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd/2021

Very useful and useable teaching aid for primary level pupils.Practical work dominates the book.Highly recommended.Well priced.

This book is a pretty good resource for early year teacher or music loving parent. It contains a lot of good resources and interesting games. A CD is included. It is also available online. But as many of other reviewers noticed, some of the songs seem to be more suitable for elder teenagers than primary kids. Overall it is a useful book to play music with kids

Good book from well established brand. Full of info on how to deliver the new EYFS introduced by the Department for education. Has lots of resources and fun games. Moreover there are links for teachers like me to access more info online. The only thing I found strange was the selection of songs. Some of them are not really age appropriate for children this young. They can be really scary. Also, this book is overpriced for what it is

Collins Primary Music - Early Years Foundation Stage is one of my favorite books. It's so comprehensive and easy to use, plus it's got fun songs that the kids love to sing. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a fantastic resource on teaching music in primary schools.I think the price of the book is high.

Good little handbook that despite its small size is proving invaluable to our teacher eldest daughter. Four stars.