My name is Millie Cook, and I am an early years music & movement teacher. I am a guitarist, cellist and singer, and have worked as a composer, sound designer, and engineer, in radio, theatre and documentary filmmaking. For the last 2 years I have been the resident music and ballet instructor at the Jack and Jill Nursery and Pre-Prep school in Twickenham. I have recently moved to Farnham in Surrey and have set up my own music and movement classes for children and their caregivers.

Musical ability is something we are born with, and from our first small sounds and movements we are coming into contact with pitch, rhythm and rhyme. It has been proven that babies and toddlers who are encouraged to sing and explore music develop stronger confidence and awareness, and this eventually leads to a more natural ability to learn to play musical instruments. It has also been proven that the commitment applied to studying and practising instruments directly improves the ability to concentrate and focus on activities like literacy, numeracy and later revision and exam preparation.