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Boogie Mites Practitioner Training Yields Positive Results

 Boogie Mites Evaluation 1 Mar-5 April 2011

An outreach worker at the Wharf Children’s Centre and Loseley Fields Childrens Centre attended Baby Boogie Mites music training. The course runs for six weeks and encourages parents to enjoy singing and music with their baby.

 The two Godalming Children’s Centre’s decided to deliver a joint course and offer it to families with a baby under the age of seven months. Parents were asked to pay £5.00 for the course. They were given a CD of all the songs in a pack at the start of the course.

The Children’s Centre’s agreed to subsidise half of the cost of the packs (£10.00 in total)

The course ran at the Wharf Children’s Centre (Green Oak) from Tuesday 1^st March to Tuesday 5^th April 2011. The actual session ran from 10.30-10.45 finishing with refreshments.

We had five families at the start of the course, only four families completed the whole course.

 Parents generally felt that it had increased their confidence and enjoyment of singing to their baby. Each week had a theme like sensory stimulation, routines, nursery rhymes, baby massage etc and parents were keen to join in any discussion and request their favourite songs. One parent said that when she sang the ‘lullaby’ song her baby went straight to sleep!

Babies and parents particularly enjoyed the rainbow song where a sensory parachute was waved up and down and a bubble machine introduced bubbles while babies laid underneath.

If possible the Outreach workers would like to run another course, jointly possibly in a reach area? 
During the delivery of the course we learned what works best, and how to modify some areas of the course.

 Evaluation forms and verbal feedback seem to indicate a positive successful first course

Karen Ayrton

6.4.11