The Music Room
Real musical learning, from your baby’s first beat to their first song.
Two Week Satisfaction Guarantee With All New Term Enrolments
The Music Room offers joyful, intentional music classes for children 9 months to 5 years. Every session is led by talented singers and musicians who are also trained in early childhood development — so your child isn’t only having fun with music, they’re building real language, coordination, emotional, social, and of course musical skills through it.
Explore the age group below that fits your child, and discover what a session looks like at each stage.
Babies 9-18 mths
Bond, move and explore with your little one
Our Baby Music class surrounds your curious, active bub with beautiful musical sounds and playful rhythms, led by a musically talented early childhood educator. Designed for little ones who love to bounce, and explore sound, the program intentionally uses creative repetition to build strong pathways in the brain and nurture your child’s developing musical ear.
Why it matters: Every session is designed to build your baby’s brain through musical repetition — strengthening the neural pathways behind language, memory, and early musicianship, one familiar song at a time.
The format: 45 minutes of songs, rhymes, dance, and instrument play, built around intentional repetition so your baby can participate more meaningfully, week after week.
Toddlers 1.5 – 2.5 yrs
Music, movement, and magic for your busy toddler!
The Music Room is the perfect place for your busy toddler. Jump, spin, march, clap, sing, and explore rhythm in this action packed musical class.
Your child will light up as they bang on big drums, dance with scarves, shake shakers, and bounce with parachutes—all while soaking up language, coordination, and social skills. Best of all, you’ll be right there —singing, laughing, and bonding through music together.
Why it matters: As your toddler bangs, dances, and sings their way through class, they’re quietly building language, coordination, and social skills — all while making joyful memories with you.
The format: 45 minutes of action songs, rhymes, dance, and instrument play, balancing familiar favourites with new activities so your toddler can join in with growing confidence each week.
Preschoolers 2.5 – 3.5 yrs
Buzzing with imagination
Meet your child’s emerging imagination right where it’s at with musical learning that takes them on a journey of discovery. From singing to dancing to beating rhythmic patterns on drums, and from swimming with dolphins to waddling with penguins, this exciting class keeps your child moving and learning from start to finish. Each term brings two themed learning programs filled with a balance of repetition for deeper learning, and new activites for discovery.
It’s joyful, active learning wrapped in imagination—giving your little bee the perfect foundation for a lifelong love of music.
Why it matters: Through singing, dancing, and rhythmic play, your child builds real skills in language, maths, and music — all wrapped in the kind of imaginative, story-driven learning that keeps them moving and engaged from start to finish.
The format: 45 minutes of structured musical activities including voice-development songs, rhythmic percussion play, and pattern-based dance, with two themed learning programs each term balancing familiar repetition with new discovery.
Young Musicians 3.5-5 yrs
Designed to match your preschoolers hunger for learning, this small group class is focused on making music as an ensemble, learning to play melodies, and chords on xylophone, recorder and ukuelele. We also introduce pre-reading and writing of musical notation, laying a strong foundation for learning the piano or other instrument. Strong musical skills are formed in the early years through repeated musical learning experiences.
Each class is thoughtfully structured to nurture early learning in areas such as:
- Voice: pitch matching to sing in tune
- Rhythm: Playing, reading & writing note values
- Form & Pattern: hearing and responding to musical patterns
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Emotions: feeling & responding to the emotion in the music
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Social: collaborating with peers to create group music
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Fine motor: Playing instruments in a more structured way builds finger strength and hand-eye coordination
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Creativity: creating music & contributing ideas to the group
Why it matters: This is where real musicianship begins — your child learns to play melodies and chords as part of an ensemble, while building the pre-reading and notation skills that lay the groundwork for learning piano or another instrument down the track.
The format: 45 minutes in a small group of just 8 children with one teacher, playing xylophone, recorder, and ukulele, with structured focus on voice, rhythm, pattern, fine motor skill, and creative contribution. Children are dropped off for this class, with parents invited in twice per term to watch an informal performance.
Meet the teachers
Our Music Room programs are built on years of specialist early childhood development and music education – refined, tested, and continually improved by Hive’s team of qualified educators.
Leading our Music programs today are Melissa Saunders and Emily Kingsmill, both qualified Early Childhood Educators with backgrounds in professional music.
Melissa Saunders is an Early Childhood Educator with 10 years’ experience in the sector, followed by 12 years experience at Hive Kids. Melissa holds ANZCA qualifications in Modern Singing and brings a professional musician’s ear to every class she designs. She has been part of the Hive team since training directly under founder Vanessa Lynch, and her belief in family as the foundation of a child’s growth shapes every session she leads.
Emily Kingsmill holds a Bachelor of Psychology in Education and trained as a Primary School teacher before qualifying as an Early Childhood Educator in Australia. A lifelong pianist and singer, Emily brings together her two passions – music and education – in every class, driven by a belief that children learn best through the joy of music.
What this means for your family: whether Melissa, Emily, or another qualified educator is teaching your class, the program itself – the structure, the research, the intentional learning design – stays consistent. You’re not just booking a class with a great teacher. You’re enrolling in a program built to last through every stage of your child’s creative development.
Enrol Now or Book a Trial
We know enrolling your child in a new program is a big decision – so if you’d like to experience the Music Room before committing, you’re welcome to book a trial class and see it for yourself.
ⓘ Trial classes run on a limited timetable in classes with 2 or more vacancies only. Availability isn’t guaranteed.
If you already feel confident, or have a limited schedule for class days we’d encourage you to enrol directly – full access, immediate placement, and backed by our Two-Week Satisfaction Guarantee.
Why Choose Hive Kids
🎓 Specialist, Talented Educators
Every class is led by qualified specialists — musicians, artists, performers, and early childhood educators — not general activity leaders.
✅ Two-Week Satisfaction Guarantee
Enrol with confidence, backed by our guarantee on every new term enrolment.
📍 Central, Convenient Location
Based in the heart of Charlestown, easy to reach and simple to fit into your family’s routine.
🤝 Long-Term, Familiar Staff
Our educators stay for years, so your child learns in a consistent, familiar environment with people who really get to know them.
💳 Flexible Billing
Choose term billing or flexible monthly billing — whatever suits your family best.
Class Info
Timetable: The Music Room runs every week day. Check our live timetable for class times & vacancies.
Fees & Billing:
Commit to a full term /remaining weeks in the term: $26 / class billed upfront at time of enrolment. If you enrol after the term begins, your fee will be pro rated from your start date.
Month to month flexi billing: $30 / class, billed on a recurring basis on the 20th of each month for the next calendar month until you cancel. Cancellations can be made at the end of any calendar month with no notice period required.
Missed Classes
Notify your absence through the Client Portal at least 2 hours before your class, and you’ll receive a makeup token after your missed class ends. Use the token to book into any other class in your child’s age group. Makeup tokens are valid for 4 months and can be used anytime while your enrolment is active.