TRAINING AND CPD
Magic Acorns delivers high-quality professional development training to early years practitioners, artists and cultural organisations.
Browse our upcoming Magic Online webinars and training events below, or for support tailored for your organisation, please get in touch to discuss your individual requirements and pricing. See below for some examples of our bespoke training offers.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Acorn Network - with Suffolk Artlink's Little Beats
Thursday 10th July 1.30-3pm
Are you curious about the intersection between music and wellbeing?
Join us for our next online network session with Little Beats, Suffolk Artlink’s inspiring music project for families with 0-5 yr olds and for musicians and educators developing their practice in this field.
We will be recording the session and all ticket holders will have access to the recording for 30 days.
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ONLINE / FROM £8
Magic Webinar: Professor Abi Hackett
Monday 14th July 2-3.30pm
We are excited to welcome Professor Abi Hackett who will be joining us to think about language as more-than-words.
In this presentation Professor of Childhood and Education, Abi Hackett, will draw on long-term ethnographic research with young children and their families in communities to think about language as more-than words, more-than representation and more-than-human.
ONLINE / FROM £16
Ripple Early Years Arts Symposium
Saturday 13th September
Join us for an interdisciplinary gathering for extravagant ideas about art and people under three.
The Ripple Early Years Arts Symposium opens a space for connecting with others through interactive discussions, presentations and practical experiences that explore collaboration with young children under three in creativity, art and play.
We invite artists, educators, researchers, policy makers, arts organisations and funders to join us to imagine and speculate together for yet-to-be-imagined practice and policy with young children.
ST GEORGE'S THEATRE, GREAT YARMOUTH / FROM £40
BESPOKE TRAINING
SALTmusic
Communicating through musical play
SALTmusic was a research project that teamed speech and language therapists with early years music practitioners and this course is based on its findings. In this session, participants will broaden their knowledge and understanding of the ways in which young children communicate and how music offers an alternative medium for expression. These can be held in-person or online.
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Gain knowledge of theories that underpin the SALTmusic approach
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Develop skills in music and sound play
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Increase their understanding of interaction and the importance of listening to children
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Expand their knowledge of how best to use a musical play environment within their practice.
EY in your Cultural Organisation
This session is aimed at museums, theatres and other cultural organisations. Ideally for freelance artists and arts administrators to experience together, learning from each other while being guided through the complex and diverse landscape of early childhood education and care.
It will cover infants, toddlers, pre-schoolers and will look at working with parents, families and practitioners. Guidance will also be given on the learning environments for young children and their families that can stimulate creative responses.
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Learn to understand the landscape of early years
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Discover the most effective approaches in working with this age group
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Find out how to identify the best sorts of arts practice for young children and families
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Feel equipped to work with young children and artists.
Making Spaces
This session will give you all the tools you need to be able to transform any room or area into an immersive, sensory, playful space.
Using found objects, pound shop bargains and other inexpensive and easily accessible materials, you will explore and play with transforming spaces.
Through hands-on activities you’ll gain the necessary skills to be able to make quick and simple playful environments, and through video and discussion you can reflect on the impact these would have on a child’s experiences.
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Gain practical experience of creating an immersive play environment
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Learn some of the skills and techniques that can be drawn upon to create play spaces quickly and cheaply
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Gain a deeper understanding of the impact of immersive spaces and how they can be used in settings and cultural venues
"Engaging, inspiring, thought provoking" Nicola Burke - Sounds of Play