Music Classes for Kids
WE ARE ALSO OFFERING FREE TRIAL CLASSES FOR NEWCOMERS IN EVERY CENTRE.
“Our Sillybilly Music Classes are the highlight of (Child’s name) week! He is so musical and I am sure Sillybilly is a big part of the reason, we can’t go out in the car without the Sillybilly CD playing and the songbook at hand”
Francis Dwyer
WELCOME TO SILLYBILLY.IE MUSIC
The Best Start in Life
SILLYBILLY MUSIC & DRAMA CLASSES START BACK ON MONDAY THE 16TH OF JAN.
SILLYBILLY.IE MUSIC AND DRAMA CLASSES.
Everyday more parents realize that what they do in the formative years of their child’s life has great significance in their future development. Not only intellectually but socially as well. Children from birth to four are learning how to learn and the pathway to learning, established at this age, will be one used for the rest of their lives. Sillybilly.ie gives children the opportunity to be part of a structured group with their parent or carer, a stepping stone for Montessori, Creche or big School. Through this comes the confidence to assert their own independence and individuality.
The Sillybilly.ie Music and Drama Program introduces a love of Music, Songs & Rhythm, Instruments, Stories and Imagination. There are five Sillybilly.ie Music centres across Dublin. We also operate music classes each week in Crèche’s and Montessori’s all over Dublin. You will find our staff welcoming and knowledgeable with our emphasis on Fun and Enjoyment as much as it is on Music and Development. Our Music Program educates Children giving them a confidence for life and has been recommended in ‘Woman’s Way’, ‘ Your New Baby’, ‘Dublin for Kids’, ‘In Dublin’, ‘The Herald’, ‘Primary Times’, ‘Mothers and Babies’ and most importantly, thousands of Mum’s and Dad’s who enjoy our Music Classes with their kids each week. Our Classes have also featured numerous times on RTE’s ‘Den Tots’ with Emma.
Sillybilly.ie Music Members receive a Free Sillybilly Action Songbook, (music and rhythm songs with easy to follow actions and illustrations for both of you to enjoy at home) and a Sillybilly.ie Music CD which takes you through each song in your Songbook with six bonus exercise songs and rhymes and a musical instrument guessing game.
Music Centres and Times
Blackrock
Monday – The Murry Centre, Newtownpark Ave, Blackrock.
10.15am – Moving Up – 10 mts to 2 yrs
11.15am – Learning Fun – 2yrs to 3.5yrs
Charlestown Shopping Centre
Tuesday – Just off the M50
10.30am – 10mths to 4 years
CLASSES ARE FREE OF CHARGE
Hamleys Toyshop, Dundrum Shopping Centre
Wednesday – Dundrum Town Centre, Dundrum.
10.15am – Moving Up – 10mts to 2yrs
11.15am – Learning Fun – 2yrs to 3.5yrs
Rathgar
Thursday – Christchurch Presbyterian Church Hall, Highfield Road, Rathgar Village.
9.15am – Moving Up – 10mts to 2yrs
10.15am – Moving Up – 10mts to 2yrs
11.15am – Learning Fun – 2yrs to 3.5yrs
Killester
Friday – Killester Resource Centre, (Centre in car park of Killester Church)
Howth Road, Killester, Dublin 5.
10.15am – Moving Up – 10mts to 2yrs
11.15am – Learning Fun – 2yrs to 3.5yrs
Sillybilly Music Mission Statement
1.At Sillybilly Music we will discover and explore the three fundamentals of music. Rhythm, harmony and melody.
2. We will introduce a variety of instruments such as guitars, drums of different types, recorders, tambourines, shakers, pellet drums, glockenspiel, xylophones, bells, saxophones, boom whackers and keyboards, but we will constantly be searching for new instruments to discover and explore.
3. Aside from introducing instruments, we will be concentrating on the most important instrument of all, the voice, because it is freely accessible to everyone, and all music training should begin with singing.
4. We believe that Music is a language, and like any language introduced to a Child at this early stage, it will be soaked up and processed like all other information.
5. We encourage a love of Music, Rhythm and Instruments, which will stay with your child for life.
Call 8 51 21 51 to Book a FREE TRIAL CLASS at your nearest Music Centre or Creche
| Music Centre Manager: Nan Davies | Direct Line: 8 51 21 51 | Email: Nan@Sillybilly.ie |
| Class Teacher: Ronan MacGabhann | Direct line: 087 232 7151 | Email: Ronan@Sillybilly.ie |
| Office Manager: Ana Fili | Office: 087 241 8378 | Email: Ana@Sillybilly.ie |
Music Centre Manager – Nan has worked with kids for over 10 years and has worked at Sillybilly.ie since we started in 2001. She has an honours degree in Drama from University of Wales, Aberystwyth and also has a Management of an Early Years setting Qualification (Level 3) from CACHE, the governing body in the UK.
Traveling projects to Argentina and Chile, and more recently New Zealand and South Africa further enhanced her experience of working with children from different circumstances and cultures.
She is currently doing a Masters Degree in Play Therapy at All Hallows College, Dublin to use her talents in different areas of working with children. She loves living in Dublin, but her heart is never far from the Welsh hills and those sheep…..
Class Teacher Ronan studied Drama in the Becket Centre at Trinity College Dublin, after graduating he worked as an actor, while also writing and directing kids plays. Ronan went back to college in London for two years at the College of North London where he achieved an NVQ 3 in ‘Childcare and Education’.