{"id":1968,"date":"2017-04-14T02:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/?page_id=1968"},"modified":"2017-04-27T13:19:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T13:19:26","slug":"meet-sally","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/index.php\/meet-sally\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Sally Wagter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_full-9497bbf8bff73ea4c6992cc17fa9ec36\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_full-9497bbf8bff73ea4c6992cc17fa9ec36{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_full-9497bbf8bff73ea4c6992cc17fa9ec36 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_textblock-04a24c66ecc2413daace6e63a4ac91fd\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-av_textblock-04a24c66ecc2413daace6e63a4ac91fd .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:18px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-04a24c66ecc2413daace6e63a4ac91fd '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>Firstly, hello and welcome.<\/strong><br \/>\nI will keep this part short but I would love to just introduce myself. I am a music teacher, a pianist, a mother and someone who gets very excited about learning, especially about finding ways to make learning easier on people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sallypicknmix.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1992 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sallypicknmix.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"271\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been a music teacher for 20 years and have run INSETS for 15 years. My passion is the Kod\u00e1ly approach for teaching music.<\/p>\n<p>When I first went on a Kodaly course, as well as loving the approach, I especially fell in love with the games. I found I didn\u2019t \u2018get\u2019 the games easily when they were explained but when the game was actually happening and I was part of it, I started to \u2018get\u2019 it and found myself immersed in a brilliant world of musical fun and camaraderie with the people around me.<\/p>\n<p>They say that music releases endorphins.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever run a music course or taken a music lesson where we didn\u2019t end up laughing and consequently feeling better!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-19-at-21.36.34-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1991 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-19-at-21.36.34-1-300x159.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-19-at-21.36.34-1-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-19-at-21.36.34-1-768x406.png 768w, https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-19-at-21.36.34-1-1030x545.png 1030w, https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-19-at-21.36.34-1-710x375.png 710w, https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-19-at-21.36.34-1-705x373.png 705w, https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-19-at-21.36.34-1-450x238.png 450w, https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-19-at-21.36.34-1.png 1232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love looking at the different way people learn. I find I learn best through experience and then through watching, but that I find it hard visualising games through trying to read complex explanations.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when I had the idea to make videos \u2013 heaps and heaps of videos. I ran workshops and clubs at schools weekend after weekend. The children learnt the games and then demonstrated them for you on all these videos.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome is that I now have over 600 videos for you of singing games, rhythm games, pitch games, instrumental activities and more.<br \/>\nI have put them into categories just to make finding the games easier for you\u2013 so you can think about what kind of game or musical activity you need and have an idea of where to look.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-16-at-17.52.42.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1990 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-16-at-17.52.42-300x151.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-16-at-17.52.42-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-16-at-17.52.42-768x386.png 768w, https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-16-at-17.52.42-1030x518.png 1030w, https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-16-at-17.52.42-705x355.png 705w, https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-16-at-17.52.42-450x226.png 450w, https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-16-at-17.52.42.png 1223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These games and activities do actually follow a clear, pedagogical approach and they have been put into a series of 168 progressive, skill-based lesson plans for 4 \u2013 11 year-olds called <a href=\"https:\/\/activemusicdigital.co.uk\">Active Music Digital<\/a>. Please click on the link to find out more.<\/p>\n<p>However, I realise that not all people want lesson plans. Us creative types often like to create our own plans or pick and mix from other people\u2019s ideas \u2013 hence the name \u2018Pick \u2018n\u2019 Mix\u2019. It makes me think of Woolworths and sweets, as I\u2019m sure it does you, but it also makes me think of picking and choosing the things I really want from a variety of lovely options \u2013 and this is the vision I had for Active Music Pick \u2018n\u2019 Mix.<\/p>\n<p>So please, help yourselves, choose from these ideas and enjoy them with your children. They create an excellent foundation in musicianship and are really fun to teach! Enjoy!<br \/>\nIf you would like to contact me, please email me at office@activemusicdigital.co.uk.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1968","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2016,"href":"https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1968\/revisions\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/activemusicpicknmix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}