Music and Movement
Music and Movement
Mini Maestros offers fun, active and educational music classes for babies, toddlers and preschoolers, aged 5 months to 5 years. We offer both local in-person classes and at home courses.
Music making is superfood for a child’s developing brain.
As Australia’s leading Australian music program for pre-school children, Mini Maestros combines music and joyful discovery to encourage confident and happy learners.
All our music classes enhance children’s development while they are having fun. Singing, dancing, playing percussion instruments and musical games stimulate the children’s creativity and imagination.
Children participate in a carefully planned and sequential program. As well as introducing musical concepts such as beat, rhythm, dynamics, form and notation, our program develops the whole child by encouraging children’s speech development, listening skills, social skills and physical skills.
Our carefully trained and highly experienced teachers ensure that each child and their parent or carer enjoy a unique and nurturing experience in a welcoming and diverse community environment.
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Our Education Program
The Mini Maestros education program has been developed over 40 years of trial and research. The music literacy component is based on Kodály methodology and repertoire. The influences of the theories of Orff, Dalcroze and Suzuki are also evident. Much of the music is by local Australian composers featuring multicultural influences.
Our education program is sequential. Our babies’ classes are primarily aimed at building an appreciation for music through unconscious learning activities and help to give the primary care giver confidence to share music with the child. In our toddler classes a child’s knowledge of music starts to grow. In our classes for preschoolers the unconscious learning becomes apparent as the children discover the beat and the rhythm in the music, identify high and low sounds on the music staff, become familiar with musical terms, and learn how to read basic music elements.
Our teachers bring a variety of percussion instruments for the children to experiment with. We provide attractive and entertaining props, which stimulate the children’s imagination and keep them engaged in the music-making educational activities.
Parents or carers of our Mini Maestros students are welcomed into the class and participate along with their children. As well as allowing the parent or carer to spend valuable play time with their child, parent or carers can observe their children’s development. Parents or carers also have the opportunity to meet each other and long-term friendship bonds can be established in Mini Maestros classes.
Mini Maestros sessions are also provided at early learning centres.
Classes by Age Group
Select your child’s age group to see a description of our classes for that age group.
Early Years Framework
Mini Maestros embraces the Australian Early Years Learning Framework guidelines as they reaffirm the foundations of our program.
Mini Maestros provides educational music classes that nurture and extend children’s learning and development. Our sequential, age-specific program employs a strengths-based approach centred around concepts such as ‘learning through play’, ‘continuity of learning’ and ‘high expectations’. These concepts are important principles and practices that underpin the Early Years Learning Framework.
Mini Maestros sees children’s learning as integrated and interconnected. As such, our lessons are planned with a wide range of learning outcomes in mind. As well as learning musical skills, our program aims to develop the whole child and, therefore, actively encourages and fosters:
- Self-expression
- Language and literacy skills
- Auditory and visual processing
- Social skills
- Gross and fine motor skills
- Inclusion and teamwork
- Verbal and non-verbal communication
- Spatial awareness
- Memory
- Cultural awareness
- Wellbeing