Wesley the Guitar Bear has been inspiring pupils' and teachers over the past 20 years
- The guitar media Jeana was using to teach from was too quick paced for the children, so she decided to draft a book of her own, featuring Wesley, which she used as teaching aid to support children to play the guitar
In 1998 Jeana produced a final version called ‘Learn to play the guitar like me!’
Sally the koala bear was created to play duets with Wesley
- In 2001 Jeana wrote ‘Learn to play the guitar like us!’ which linked to the first guitar book
- A new cartoon character was created for this book – Charlie the Rabbit
Jeana used both books as her teaching aid and the pupils were gaining high marks at Music festivals
In 2003 Jeana wrote ‘Learn to play the guitar like us!’ “The Ensemble Style” and a CD of the songs from the book played by: Walton Girls’ High School Classical Guitar Group
WH Smith and Fox’s Music shop launched Jeana’s guitar books
Jeana designed her website and a costume made of Wesley to help promote her guitar books
Produced a CD
Jeana, Wesley and the girls presented Guitar Workshops to Primary School children
The software was developed and designed to support Nursery, Infant and Primary school teachers to deliver the National Music Curriculum.
Interacts Early years and KS1 was piloted at Coleby Primary School Lincoln and Little Gonerby Infant School Grantham
MP Nick Boles and Wesley the 1st copy of Interact
Quote: from MP Nick Boles
”It is so important to help children develop a sense of rhythm and musicality at an early age and I was hugely impressed to see how the children at Little Gonerby Infants School responded to the ingenious yet simple music software developed by Interact. I hope that other schools across the country will take advantage of their products to help introduce their pupils to the joy of music.”
