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Musical Beginnings: improving access to early years music education

In conversation with Bethan Scolding from Greenwich Music School, Ellie Rashid explores how improving access to early years music education can be addressed.
 All images from sessions at Greenwich Music School
All images from sessions at Greenwich Music School - Andreas Greiger

ER: Can you tell me about your early years music education journey and where it started?

BS: My partner Ed and I founded Greenwich Music School back in 2016. I'm a pianist and he is a composer. The founding principles of the school were to focus on access and quality and there was no question that early years was going to be a part of that from the beginning. That's where our journey started. Prior to that, I'd been teaching early years for about five or six years.

ER: Musical Beginnings is a wonderful early years project supported by Youth Music and was a finalist in the Excellence in Primary/Early Years category at the Music & Drama Education Awards 2022. What is the Musical Beginnings project?

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