How to: Joining the It’s Music Time Family

Joining the It’s Music Time family brings you into a partnership. Beth works closely with each church and group, making sure that they have the resources they need, freeing up time for relationship building and sharing the gospel.

The annual subscription fee includes, teacher training, a site fee, four, eight week terms of lesson programs, including a Spotify playlist for easy access to the songs and music used each term.

As well, we work with each group to ensure the materials are working for their context and provides other resources and support as needed.

It’s Music Time really is a partnership founded to enable gospel mission. Taking the focus and effort of each group from the mechanics of the lessons and running a group, and freeing up time to build relationships with parents and carers of small people in your community. 

Why do a music playgroup?

Groups for preschoolers and their carers are a wonderful open door for people to come into churches and church communities. Carers are often looking for things to do with their young children, and looking for the company of other adults to share the highs and lows of parenting. A group targeted at preschoolers and their carers can be a simple front door. Something that people are looking for and an opportunity to simply reach into your community and connect and support families.

There is significant evidence that the participation in music can enhance neural pathways and foster school readiness skills. Literacy, numeracy, social, fine and gross motor skills all form a part of a music playgroup, such as Its Music Time. These skills prepare children for participation in school life and provide fundamental skills in their repetition of vocabulary and focus on beat. Music also fosters emotional connectedness, explaining feelings and providing a means of expression.

And finally there is the simple joy that sharing music can bring to adults and children. The benefit of a targeted music group is that there is 30 minutes of teaching time where the focus is on carers spending time with their little ones. There is of course, plenty of time at the end of the adults and children to connect with one another. However this focused time is a really special way we can support children and families in their relationships.