SNOW NEWS!

In the event of there being heavy snowfall making it impossible to reach a venue or making driving conditions too dangerous, customers will be notified of any cancellation. Please make sure that you have provided an up-to-date mobile number to your class teacher and please check your phone for messages. If you haven't received a text or call, but are in doubt as to whether a class is running, please contact Lisa on 02890 200088 before setting out.

Please see our Class Cancellation Policy at the bottom of our classes page.

Hi I'm Lisa and I run the Co Antrim franchise of Jo Jingles.

I have classes in Antrim, Ballyclare, Carrickfergus, Larne and Whitehead. If you would like to know more about me click here.

Can you buzz like a bee, wiggle like a worm,
flutter like a butterfly or crawl like a caterpillar?

Then be a "Boogie Bug for the BBC Children in Need Appeal 2009"

Join us for our sponsored Singalong in classes all week from Monday 16th November to Friday 20th November. See some pictures below.

Jo Jingles 4 track charity CD is also now available to purchase from classes or via www.jojingles.com.
(£1 from the sale of each CD goes to the Appeal)

For more information please contact
Lisa on 028 90200088.

Here are some of the pictures taken at our Children in Need event in class

What is Jo Jingles?

Jo Jingles provides music and movement sessions to children from 6mths to 7years with an educational slant.

Jo Jingles classes enhance a child’s pre-school education by stimulating appreciation and enjoyment of music right from the beginning. Our classes use varied themed programmes focusing on elements such as colours, numbers and animals as well as providing a gentle, fun introduction to music theory.

Benefits of Music to children.

“Music – specifically song – is one of the best training grounds for babies, learning to recognise the tones that add up to spoken language.” - Trehub S, University of Toronto 1997.

We aim to gently introduce children to various percussion instruments and appreciate rhythms and notation.

“Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.” - Plato

Need I say any more? At Jo Jingles we believe ‘Music Rocks’. It’s a shame not to introduce such a simple thing to the children of tomorrow.

About Lisa

I am a degree qualified Critical Care Nurse which I am sure you will agree is a huge change of direction! How does music fit in then I hear you ask…? Well music has been a very large part of my life.

I was a keen violinist at school and studied to Grade 7 standard. I toured France with the North Eastern Ulster Schools Orchestra, and have been singing in choirs since primary school. My mum used to teach piano and plays regularly for the Girls Brigade, so there was always someone “tinkling” in the background.

I recently returned to nursing after my second child and needed something that allowed me to see my children growing up but long shifts and night duty prevented this. I took my daughter to Jo Jingles classes prior to my son’s birth (right up to 37 weeks!!!). She loved the classes just as much as I did and rhymed on and on until it was Friday again! I approached my now neighbouring franchisee for a teaching job and now here I am owning a franchise.