annA rydeR’s Music Cards – set of 30
£19.00 exc VAT
£19.00 inc VAT
RRP £20.90 exc VAT
At the heart of the Sound Children approach are annA rydeR’s brilliant Music Cards: full of hints and music-making ideas for everyone to use. No musical experience is needed and session reparation is quick and easy. There are 30 cards with ideas for inside and outdoors, for groups of all sizes and for most sessions you just need a very few basic instruments. annA has worked in education for over 20 years and all these ideas have been tried and tested by her with young children.
Product Information
What's included
These music cards are ideal for you if you have no experience or very little experience of making music with young children but they are also very useful for people who are musicians or who have a lot of experience in leading music with children. This is because the ideas are a wide range of provocations, experiments and explorations which encompass not only music-making and listening – imaginative and technical – but also other seemingly unrelated ideas which will engage, excite and challenge your children. These music cards use an approach which is open-ended, flexible and non-learning-outcome driven. You won’t know what the outcome is until you try out the idea. Music ideas in this set of cards broaden out into other learning areas without being ‘boundaried’ by the subject of music. Children will naturally float from one activity into another without noticing a dividing line whereas we will think of music as a specific subject; and numeracy as another different subject. In reality there are connections between everything and everything which children easily, if not recognise, accept. For instance, a young child might be using an egg shaker one minute and then take it to the sandpit and bury it. A child might be putting a hat on and being a king one minute and the next they will put the egg shaker in the hat and shake it, dance about and then go and draw a picture with the egg shaker on the table next to them. annA rydeR’s Music Cards are 25 ideas which are set out NOT as ‘music-lessons-on-a-plate’ for a teacher who needs a quick fix for music sessions, but as imagination-provokers laid out in such a way as to encourage you to think about the ideas and how your children are learning and to inspire your own imagination and ideas. You will need to use these cards remembering that you’ll adapt them to your own particular children and setting. These are ideas for inside and outside, for small and large spaces, for short and long durations, for moving around or sitting still, for very particular musical activities right into the downright strange and unusual. Every one has been tried with children but you will always discover new learning outcomes. The cards come in a handy fabric pouch and they are detachable from one another so that you can share with your colleagues or let children examine them.
How to Play
These music cards are ideal for you if you have no experience or very little experience of making music with young children but they are also very useful for people who are musicians or who have a lot of experience in leading music with children. This is because the ideas are a wide range of provocations, experiments and explorations which encompass not only music-making and listening – imaginative and technical – but also other seemingly unrelated ideas which will engage, excite and challenge your children. These music cards use an approach which is open-ended, flexible and non-learning-outcome driven. You won’t know what the outcome is until you try out the idea. Music ideas in this set of cards broaden out into other learning areas without being ‘boundaried’ by the subject of music. Children will naturally float from one activity into another without noticing a dividing line whereas we will think of music as a specific subject; and numeracy as another different subject. In reality there are connections between everything and everything which children easily, if not recognise, accept. For instance, a young child might be using an egg shaker one minute and then take it to the sandpit and bury it. A child might be putting a hat on and being a king one minute and the next they will put the egg shaker in the hat and shake it, dance about and then go and draw a picture with the egg shaker on the table next to them. annA rydeR’s Music Cards are 25 ideas which are set out NOT as ‘music-lessons-on-a-plate’ for a teacher who needs a quick fix for music sessions, but as imagination-provokers laid out in such a way as to encourage you to think about the ideas and how your children are learning and to inspire your own imagination and ideas. You will need to use these cards remembering that you’ll adapt them to your own particular children and setting. These are ideas for inside and outside, for small and large spaces, for short and long durations, for moving around or sitting still, for very particular musical activities right into the downright strange and unusual. Every one has been tried with children but you will always discover new learning outcomes. The cards come in a handy fabric pouch and they are detachable from one another so that you can share with your colleagues or let children examine them.
Delivery
We work with a small number of specialist logistic companies to deliver your order quickly and economically. The delivery method varies, depending on your location and the size of the order, as follows:
UK Locations
Orders up to 5kg – Courier 2 to 3 working day delivery. This would typically include books, smaller instruments, percussion baskets and djembes up to 40cm.
Orders over 5kg – Courier, next working day delivery. Most orders are sent this way.
Large orders – Pallet service, 3 to 5 working day delivery. Used for large orders and those with more fragile contents.
Please note:
- Above timings are from dispatch date. Time from placing your order will usually be one or two days longer, depending on the order and destination.
- Delivery to offshore or Highland addresses may take longer and may cost more than to UK mainland addresses and we’ll quote and agree the costs with you in advance. Please note that in these cases it’s fine to go ahead and place your order, and there’s no obligation on your part until the delivery costs have been quoted and accepted by you.
- For some destinations, where a courier service isn’t available, we may send by Royal Mail instead.
International Locations
Orders weighing less than 1kg and not too bulky – Post Office Airmail. This would include books and smaller percussion instruments.
Orders weighing more than about 1kg and large orders – international courier or pallet service. We’ll obtain competitive quotes and agree these with you in advance.
Please note that it’s fine to go ahead and place your international order prior to confirming shipping costs, and that there’s no obligation on your part until the delivery costs have been quoted and accepted by you. Payment for international orders, including shipping costs, is required before dispatch of the goods.
Returns
Please let us know straight away if anything arrives damaged or otherwise in a substandard condition and we’ll be happy to replace it, refund the cost or provide you with an alternative product to your satisfaction. Speed is of the essence here as most courier companies will only accept responsibility for damage in transit if the damage is reported within 24 hours of delivery.
In the event of damage, please take photographs, including any damage to the packaging, and email these to us ASAP.
Similarly, if an instrument develops a fault within 12 months of purchase in the course of normal use (though excluding fair wear and tear), please let us know, and we’ll replace it or refund the cost. It’s also very helpful for us to see photos of the issue as this gives us solid information for changing the design, the production method or the packing materials.
But please do contact us before returning any damaged or substandard items. Once we’ve approved their return, please send to: Drums for Schools Limited, 21 Shaftesbury Avenue, Burton Joyce NG14 5GL
We really appreciate your feedback in the case of faults (or if you think an instrument could be improved in any way) and we take all such feedback very seriously indeed.