Welcome to the Early Years Music Groups website
“You have a rare and wonderful talent for working with very young children…
it was such a joyful and calming experience for us to share every week.”
Early Years Music Groups (eymg), established in Beeston since 1996, are fun and stimulating music sessions for babies and toddlers to enjoy with their parents or carers at the Pearson Centre in Beeston, Nottingham.
Using an interactive and responsive approach – along with themes, routines and naturally incorporated Makaton signing, eymg offers you and your child an engaging musical experience to enjoy together.
Wendy, their creator and facilitator, is an Early Years practitioner with over 25 years’ experience of running music groups for young children in the East Midlands. She is a trained speech and language therapist and musician.
Now booking at the Pearson Centre on Tuesdays and Fridays. Places are limited so now’s the time to reserve your spot.
If you haven’t been before, please get in touch to arrange a £2 taster!
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Early Years Music Groups
Early Years Music Groups for babies & toddlers: lovely interactive music & a focus on communication!
Well, what a week that was! Thank you all so much for all your good wishes, cards and gifts. I ran out of vases and could open a pop up flower shop this week....except that I'm enjoying them all myself.
As well as the end of my beloved Early Years Music Groups after 30 years, last week marked a significant birthday (which was also my first one without a mum), the first anniversary of losing my beautiful little Billy-dog and the 10th anniversary of my latest breast cancer diagnosis.
Wendy's Playful Piano held an end of term Piano Party yesterday, where all the children played brilliantly and concentrated better than I did! I'm now saying goodbye to 6 Piano students who have reached my age limit of 8 and are moving on to other lucky local teachers...which means I'm also in the process of meeting several lovely new little ones from the waiting list, ready to start in September.
A big thank you to my family and friends for all your love and support in getting me through a truly emotional week. I'm a bit tired this morning!
Thank you for providing such an excellent service to the local children. I will always have fond memories of our sessions with you when Ryan was younger. He’s gone on to become a very talented drummer, and I’m certain that your sessions played a huge part in building that early musical side of his brain.
Goodness Wendy....that was a lot on one week!! Bless you. So many people are so grateful for you. It was good to celebrate you last week. Hope you have time to rest for a while! X
Forever grateful to you Wendy for everything you’ve done for so many children and their families 🎶 I am currently in Cyprus so will pop you a card when I get home on the weekend of the 7th August
Ah Wendy! You are such a joy to be around and our two have enjoyed the early years music groups and thank you so much for sharing your passion with others!!! I hope you may get to rest a little bit following the end of this chapter and find as much joy in the next. Our sincere gratitude and love to you, John, Ricki, Rosie and Elias!
Wendy - just to say a huge thank you for all you've done in running these groups to support the early musical adventures of so many hundreds of local children over the years. My own two, Chloe and Adam are still playing instruments (including piano), and both have a real love for all things musical. And I'm convinced that your groups helped nurture that right from the start!
Much love to you Wendy. I hope you can rest up over the summer break xxxx
Wendy, so many things happening for you. Time to take some time and breath I should think. Sending lots of love xxx
Here's the final 'face of eymg' announcing the last ever week of Early Years Music Groups. I can't even begin to tell you how much I have loved singing, working and playing with all your babies and toddlers for the last 30 years. Thank you to every eymg family, for all your support and enthusiasm. Please keep singing!
You have been part of our children’s, our families lives! Thank you! Your love for the children, the music and all the fun has made you legendary! I’ve learnt so much from you too as a practitioner! Thank you xxx
All the best for whatever comes next Wendy. You've have enriched the lives of many, many children. And we're all still singing the songs even many years later 😃😆xx
The memories will stay with myself, Abigail and Jenson forever … not quite goodnight but ‘Soualle’ and a million thanks to you Wendy, keep singing 🎶👋 xx
We are so going to miss the classes. Lucy absolutely loves coming and I have loved bringing her and seeing her confidence grow. A lovely Nanny/Lucy experience we have both enjoyed. She talks about it all week and has her own special sign for the class where she strums an imaginary ukulele. Tomorrow will be a happy and sad day. Xx
Our gorgeous Finley 💙
Thank you so much for the best classes, Rory has loved and learnt so much from them- she talks about ‘music time’ all week and does all the songs and actions at home! We will really miss it- Thank you! X
Wendy Prevezer and EYMG have been a unique and much loved part of Beeston life for an amazing 30 years. You have indeed brought joy to countless local families. My daughter aged 2 came to the very first groups all those years ago with her little brother following on a little later. Fast forward to 2020 and my daughter and her first baby were able to join virtually during lockdown - what a godsend that was. By the time her little brother was ready to join the groups were back in person and I had the weekly pleasure and magic of EYMG once again. The groups were particularly formative for my daughter who returned as a volunteer before studying Childhood Studies at Uni during which she once again joined Wendy this time at Speech, Sign and Song from which she produced her final year dissertation. What an inspiration you have been Wendy. Thank you, thank you, thank you. It was a bitter sweet honour to attend today as back up for your final group. You will be missed very much xx
In 2006 it was eymg's 10th birthday. suecoombes67 and @kpnuts59 made a fantastic life-size autoharp cake and we gathered together as many families as possible who had attended over the first 10 years for a celebration.
Just 2 weeks of eymg to go...this week it's tambourines and the little seed song, by popular request!
Ah, how lovely! So many families have benefitted from Wendy's music 😊
It wasn’t that long after this that we started coming to your sessions.
The Speech, Sign and Song Club is a small local charity providing regular music groups for children with SEND who need extra support with communication . Groups are lead by Wendy Prevezer, Roma Seth and Sally Moulds. There are spaces in September!
Why not arrange a trial session in July, with a view to starting regularly in the autumn term? Please apply via www.speechsignsong.co.uk stating whether you're interested in the weekly or monthly group, and we'll get you booked in.
The weekly group in Beeston on Wednesday mornings is for toddlers, preschoolers and home-educated children up to age 7. And the monthly group in Toton on Saturdays is for school- aged children right up to 18.
I'm taking requests in the next couple of weeks as I plan the last few eymg sessions ever. We'll be sad to finish in July, but please give us some smiles with your memories of songs and activities that you'll never forget!
I personally always loved using these maracas, made from conditioner bottles which were saved for me by my hairdresser over a few years until I had a full set!
I loved the “we can do anything” and “souelé” (maybe spelt incorrectly) song.
Could we do the tambourines? Particularly significant now after Finley's tambourine photo that Finley's brother has a go on them one more time!
