Sounds Like This Connection, calm and incredible brain development through simple
musical play

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Brain-changing & bond building music sessions that put you and your child first.

Discover our beautiful immersive sensory experiences and unlock joyful whole-brain learning.

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KINDERGARTENS AND EARLY YEARS SETTINGS

Immersive Music Making Programs for Early Years Settings grounded in science, sprinkled with wonder.

  • Play-based music incursions

  • Useful Professional Learning Training Workshops and Courses

Delivering face-to-face and online.

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What’s the most powerful thing you can give a child?
Your love.

And then?
Music, shared together.

So, you’re a woman who loves to sing?

Singing makes you feel great?

You want to do MORE singing?!

Well, you little chorus cutie, you are going to LOOOVE these groups!

We love women. We love working with women, supporting women, learning from women.
We love women so much that we think it’s fundamental to create spaces for women to thrive.

Sounds Like This’ women’s groups Sounds Like Singing and Mama Sing are those spaces!

We think it’s really important that women have time for themselves, to fit their own oxygen masks and do what makes them feel great.

Singing is fan-flippin’-brilliant for your mental health and a great activity to meet some other gorgeous local women, so if you’re keen to see what it’s all about you’d be so welcome here!

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What does Lauren have to say about our children’s classes?

I always learn something in each class, and now have a toolbox that I can use at home or in my primary classroom.
— Lauren Thompson

Music has a powerful way

of growing young minds from birth

Music making isn’t just a nice thing to do,

it actually changes the way young brains grow and older brains fire.

“Music learning increases our executive functions, especially our ability to pay attention and not get distracted, and these are the brain functions that have been found to increase intelligence and academic achievement.”

- Dege, F. (2011) from Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal

At Sounds Like This we’re on a mission to empower parents and early years’ educators with the tools and skills to bring music making back into every-day learning.

Scientific research shows that music education has the potential for far greater impact than ‘just’ creating lovely music. When done with insight and understanding it can positively change brains, now and for a lifetime.

Peer behind the musical certain

Learn much more about music making and childhood brain development, and listen to conversations with incredible people changing the world through their work in education, motherhood services, health, community, and the arts with the Sounds Like This Blog and Podcast.

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You already know that babies’ and children’s brains are constantly changing and growing. But did you know, that when you sing, dance and make music with little ones you create an environment where their brain health, play, sense of curiosity, and insightful risk-taking are cherished, nurtured, and encouraged?

Scientific research in this area is very exciting and we’re gaining new insights ALL THE TIME about just how incredible music-making is for human brains of all ages. For example, through exposure to nursery rhymes, children naturally learn to put vowels, consonants, words, and sentences together. This is because simple rhymes provide opportunities for:

  • repetition

  • expression

  • broadening vocabularies

  • feeling beat

  • learning rhythmic patterns

  • developing context and meaning for words

  • the joy of learning for all (this one’s a biggie!)

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Take the music making with you

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Musical engagement does wonders for so many areas of your child’s life. Language skills. Social development. Emotional literacy. Overall wellbeing (wonderful things like self regulation and self advocacy). 

This particular sweet song is a useful tool for emotional regulation and connection.

Deep slow breaths and gentle touch help to bring awareness back into your little one’s body, and has the power to communicate without even saying so “I’m here with you. You’re safe.”

Ok, so…

Musical PLAY is the most
FAN-FLIPPIN’-BRILLIANT
way to grow your child’s brain,

but what if you’re not a naturally comfortable

musical person?

Never fear, we’ve got you covered with more ways to play, connect and engage with your young love through Sounds Like This’ online video library, the Family Music Club.

Specifically made for toddlers, kinder kids, young primary-aged children and for m/other’s with babes in arms, this is the easiest way to add budget-friendly quality musical experiences to your everyday, anywhere, any time!

Sounds Like This’
Family Music Club

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