Play

Speaker and facilitator

I am available for speaking, training and CPD opportunities. I am passionate about sharing my experience in playful facilitation, early years music and inclusive practice. As with my facilitation work, I embed an inclusive approach into my public speaking, often involving activities to suit different learning styles and approaches.

Recent events include:

• The Spark Arts for Children Music Champions Symposium, Leicester. Sharing on play and multi-sensory exploration.
• Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham. Delivering a talk and workshop with RBC’s woodwind department on a playful, multi-sensory approach.
• IGLYO Proud Pupils Conference, Barcelona. Discussing the importance of play in creating queer-inclusive educational spaces.

Early Years

I am an Early Years musician, interested in playful, child-led and co-designed music-making. This means creating spaces for children to explore music-making, perhaps in unconventional ways. This can look like spread out instruments and sound-making objects that children can explore at their own pace and interest, vocalising which is valued and interacted with, or using multi-sensory objects to inspire musical ideas.

Previous projects include:

• Musician for Sounds of Play 2025. Exploring co-led, playful music in Early Years. Working collaboratively in a church-based Stay and Play in Birmingham. Sessions include using percussion such as drums, chime bars and Sound Bellows to encourage playful interactions.
• Music Champion for Spark Arts in 2023-24. Read more about my experience here. This project involved collaboratively working with an Early Years Educator at a private day nursery, exploring child-led music and how to integrate music into continuous provision.

Inclusive Music Practice

I regularly work with children and young people with learning disabilities, and previously worked with adults. In 2024, I completed a 6-month internship in Music and Intensive Interaction working with young adults with PMLD (Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities) with Fantastic Journeys.

My approach is multi-sensory, participant-led and playful. I frequently co-facilitate sessions in SEND schools and colleges, community spaces and interest-based groups.

Previous projects include:

• Facilitator with Fantastic Journeys 2024-present. Co-planning and facilitating participant-led multi-sensory sessions in a variety of settings.
• Music Intern for Music & Intensive Interaction 2024. Learning about Intensive Interaction, the impact of PMLD and understanding of non-verbal communication. Working with participants with PMLD and complex support needs to explore music-making and musical development.
• Music Lead for adults with learning disabilities in 2023-24. Facilitating weekly music sessions for a group of adults with learning disabilities at a local theatre group. Sessions included singing, exploring musical instruments, composing soundscapes based on Spring and opportunities to perform to a live audience.

As part of my portfolio, I work in primary schools within the West Midlands, supporting and leading school choirs, mentoring in song writing workshops, leading whole year singing assemblies and delivering regular engaging whole class singing sessions.

Previous projects include:

• Artist (Ark Music) 2024-present: Leading weekly whole class singing sessions to Year 3 and Year 6, building vocal technique, learning varied repertoire and engaging in warm-ups.
• Mentor (Ark Music) 2023-present: Supporting weekly after-school choir sessions, helping with harmonies and warm-ups; Mentoring at multi-school singing days; supporting songwriting days for KS1.