Helen Brayley is a qualified Primary teacher, with music specialism, and an Early Years music practitioner with more than twenty years’ experience.

As an Early Years music practitioner, she works with children from birth to four years in a variety of Early settings across the South West. She delivers tailor made training sessions to the EY sector and in Higher Education. Her work also includes establishing an Early Years network in the South West on behalf of Musicleader.

She has developed her own set of resources, designed to inspire practitioners and develop their expertise in music making with young children. Her training resource pack, MUSICTALK, which aims to develop language skills through singing and music making, has been commissioned by local children’s centres.

She is passionate about her work and aims to encourage children to find their own voice and creative expression through a varied repertoire of music and song. With practitioners, she aims to boost confidence and encourage them to enjoy playing with sounds, rhymes and rhythms, spontaneously and with groups.
As a musician she plays flute, guitar, drums and piano and she performs as a vocalist with a local band. She is also one of Devon’s top dance callers for a number of ceilidh bands.