• Children 3 months and up enjoy playful yet progressive multi-sensory activities using puppets, fairy tales, pictures and instruments.
  
  
• Children develop core music skills and become musically literate.
  
  
• Each week children have fun; singing, dancing, pretending, exploring instruments, and socializing. Our activities are research -based & have been carefully selected. All of this ultimately leads to an understanding of the basic music concepts (high & low, Loud & soft) and an intrinsic understanding and love of music.
  
  
• Classes are taught in small age specific groups in a non-performance learning environment. As the children grow our classes change to meet the activity levels and developmental needs of each individual child.
  
  
• Our beautifully illustrated songbooks and CD's are available to buy at the class. The colourful materials entice the children to embark on musical adventures and ensure a seamless continuity between home, class and future instrumental lessons.
  
  
• Inner hearing is developed through action games.This is a process where we hear the sounds in our heads. This process ensures that the children hear the sounds they will produce in their heads before sounding them out. It also helps to develop timing and greater accuracy in singing.

- Sing in tune,
- understand of the basic music concepts,
- are sensitive listeners,
- have a strong sense of beat 
- can read and write basic stick notation.
- have knowledge of orchestral instruments
- can improvise and explore music independently as they have developed an understanding of how music is put together.
- Are learning to sight sing with hand signs as this will continue to develop inner hearing. Hand signs are used to denote awareness of pitch differences.

It is at this stage that they can choose an instrument to learn through Colourstrings if they wish to. The children have developed all of the skills necessary to learn an instrument with ease and success and will be free to concentrate on the technical aspects of instrumental playing.

 Building Musical Success for Everyone!

Children are barely aware of the vast amount they are learning in our classes as musical fairy tales, pictures, puppets and games are used to bring alive the musical points!

Children are treated as individuals and challenged at their own level. We believe that everyone can learn to sing in tune and become musically competent and our teaching style allows us to challenge every child at the right level within a mixed ability group

Classes activities are research -based & have been carefully selected. We emphasize the importance of early musical experiences and teaching is always play-based. A great deal of thought has gone into each level of Colourstrings classes, so that as a child goes through our program they continually develop musical layers to familiar songs. Children learn in small logical steps and experience musical concepts long before they can articulate what they mean.

Growing as a musical community  

As the children grow, our classes change to meet their developmental, emotional needs and activity levels. Children are encouraged to stay in the same class for the year so that they establish close bonds with other children in the group which nurtures security and confidence.

Parent's Feedback

"I am amazed how much Halycyon has learnt within two years of attending these classes even though most of the time she appears to be just having fun."  Tracey Bednell, mother to Halycyon aged 2

 "My son loves listening, acting out and singing along to the tapes in the car and at home and now has the confidence to sing alone in the class."  Simon Johnston, Father of Jack aged 3"