Mick Waters considers the place of rote learning in education and its strengths and limitations.

Teacher reflection on first steps in EYFS music.

Children respond to the name song, singing their own name to the backing.

I'm a little teapot and the 'ABC' song, pulse and actions.

Chime bars are used to perform rhythms created from food names.

Using food names, children improvise rhythms.

Listening to an organ piece, children recap their knowledge of tempo.

Encouraging listening children identify instruments in Baroque style piece.