Talented Toddlers at Nursery

No. It doesn't cost nursery anything, but we charge the parents of the children participating.

We are a non-profit charity regulated by OSCR, therefore we charge to cover our costs associated with delivery and any additional funding raised by attendance at our classes is then added to our charity funds to assist in carrying out our charitable objectives.

Most of our nurseries do not charge us room hire, as they understand we are a non-profit, but this might vary depending on the nursery provider. 

If you do wish to charge us for the hire of the space, then we will pass this additional cost on to participants so we are able to cover delivery cost and achieve our fundraising goals.

Please let us know if your centre intends on charging for the room and how much at your first enquiry.

We want to make this work for you as much as for us. You tell us what you're happy to start with. 

6 weeks to see how it goes? October to Christmas then re-evaluate?

There's absolutely no obligation to "book us in" for the full year, but we would hope that very quickly you'll agree that the class is a great and easy addition to your centre, and you'll want us to do a full academic session and come back after the summer break!

Tell us your preferred class time in the week, and we will organise a morning session. If you have 30 3-5s in that morning, we will run 3 short sessions back to back - 20 minutes each. Staff decides who goes in when, and staff are always more than welcome to come and watch or participate.

Basically, we use well known childrens' storybooks to structure our classes, stopping at various points to engage in a song, action song or instrumental piece of music to highlight a character, an event in the story or a place. We have a full library of over 70 childrens books with associated musical activities and some very well known ones include the Gruffalo, the Very Hungry Caterpillar, the Tiger Who Came to Tea, the Snail and the Whale, Wow Goes the Owl... and so on. There's a lot!

No. Our staff have a high degree of discretion about how they deliver these lessons, and they often compose their own material specific to the children in the class.

The reason we use professional musicians and music teachers to deliver Talented Toddlers is that there's a very specific music education component at work, and it requires a professional level of musicianship and pedagogical understanding to achieve its objectives.

Now, we personally know great musicians who work in nurseries, and they make brilliant delivery partners, but Talented Toddlers classes are specifically to be delivered by music education specialists. 

If you want us to help your staff with delivering expressive arts experiences and outcomes, we can arrange that, but they wouldn't be delivering Talented Toddlers.

1. Equipment management

2. Safety and supervision

3. Space

Hope that helps!