As part of the project, every school in Leeds will receive a song book (with accompanying video footage); a full class set of percussion instruments and a CPD session.   Schools can access the CPD sessions at:

• 10th March – Farsley Springbank Primary School – Farsley and Armley clusters
• 17th March – Greenmount Primary School – Beeston cluster
• 24th March – Cookridge Holy Trinity C of E Primary School – Cookridge cluster
• 31st March – Crossley Street Primary School – Wetherby/EPOS cluster
• 21st April – Westerton Primary School – Ardsley & Tingley and Morley clusters
• 28th April – Pudsey Civic Hall – session offered to all Leeds primary schools. This is currently fully booked, however please sign up to the waiting list here. We will offer first refusal when we put on the second one of these in June.
• 19th May – Otley The Whartons Primary School – Otley cluster
• 2nd June – St Bartholomew’s C of E Primary School – Armley cluster
• TBC Colton Primary Sschool – Templenewsam Halton and Seacroft Manston clusters
• TBC – Final Leeds wide session

Any schools interested in attending any of the above sessions, or those interested in hosting a cluster training event – particularly in clusters that have not yet been allocated a session – please contact Sam Mercer directly on sam.mercer@leeds.gov.uk.

This ArtForms led project, funded by Leeds Music Education Partnership, aims to support and develop the provision of music in EYFS in every school in Leeds. Tap! Ding! Clap! Sing! is designed to engage and support generalist teachers to deliver music provision which strongly supports early literacy development.

The package comprises a CPD session, a song book (with accompanying video footage) and a full class set of percussion instruments. There is no charge to Leeds Primary Schools for this package.

Training will be mostly delivered to clusters / families of schools throughout the Spring and Summer Terms 2020. If you are interested in hosting a training session then please contact our Early Years Music Lead, Sam Mercer, at sam.mercer@leeds.gov.uk. Alternatively, booking is now open for our training session at Pudsey Civic Hall on Tuesday 28th April, 9.30-10.45am. Booking for this course is available through Leeds for Learning. Places are limited to two delegates from each school.

If you are interested in a package that offers a more bespoke training session tailored to your specific requirements and/or you wish for your whole EYFS team to receive the training then we also offer a 1.5 hour session for £150.  Please contact Sam Mercer at sam.mercer@leeds.gov.uk to discuss this further.