In this bonus episode, we meet Julia Ehrhardt, an early childhood practitioner at Farmyard Kindergarten. Julia shares her journey into early years education, reflecting on her formative experiences and what led her to become a Kindergarten teacher. We explore the Steiner philosophy in a pre-school setting, how to know when your child is ready for pre-school, the daily rhythm of a playschool, and the unique challenges of working in early childhood education.
If you're a parent of a baby or toddler and thinking about pre-school, this episode is full of valuable insights.
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In this bonus episode, we meet Julia Ehrhardt, an early childhood practitioner at Farmyard Kindergarten. Julia shares her journey into early years education, reflecting on her formative experiences and what led her to become a Kindergarten teacher. We explore the Steiner philosophy in a pre-school setting, how to know when your child is ready for pre-school, the daily rhythm of a playschool, and the unique challenges of working in early childhood education.
If you're a parent of a baby or toddler and thinking about pre-school, this episode is full of valuable insights.
Thanks for supporting local radio!
Amanda Feery is a composer working with acoustic, electronic, and improvised music. She has written for chamber and vocal ensembles, film, theatre, installation, and multimedia. She was the Mark Nelson Fellow in Music at Princeton University, completing her PhD in Music Composition in 2019. She has formed multiple collaborative relationships with many ensembles and musicians including Alarm Will Sound, Third Coast Percussion, Ensemble Mise-en, Bearthoven, Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, Crash Ensemble, ConTempo Quartet, the National Symphony Orchestra, This is How We Fly, Chamber Choir Ireland, Dublin Guitar Quartet, Paul Roe, Michelle O’Rourke, and Lina Andonovska plus many more.
Her work has been featured at New Music Dublin, First Fortnight Festival, and Dublin Fringe Festival, among others, and she has been composer-in-residence at Bang on a Can Summer Festival, SOUNDscape, and Greywood Arts. Her 2019 residency at Centre Culturel Irlandais focused on recording piano improvisations on public pianos in Paris.
Her recent projects include: A Thing I Cannot Name, a 20-minute opera film commissioned by the Irish National Opera; My Year of Rest and Relaxation, commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra; and we could be diving for pearls, commissioned by Gleo Festival.
She was a 2023 recipient of the Markievicz Award, which is funding the composition of an hour-long radio work, in response to Eamon de Valera’s 1943 radio address, ‘On Language and the Irish Nation’ and she is currently a Lecturer in Composition at the University of Galway.
I hope you enjoy!
Keeping Track
In this bonus episode, we meet Julia Ehrhardt, an early childhood practitioner at Farmyard Kindergarten. Julia shares her journey into early years education, reflecting on her formative experiences and what led her to become a Kindergarten teacher. We explore the Steiner philosophy in a pre-school setting, how to know when your child is ready for pre-school, the daily rhythm of a playschool, and the unique challenges of working in early childhood education.
If you're a parent of a baby or toddler and thinking about pre-school, this episode is full of valuable insights.
Thanks for supporting local radio!
