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We are having a great time every Monday at Mini Maestros. Archer looks forward to using all different instruments and even week is different. Michelle is a great teacher, leading the class into song a... See more
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My son Oliver loves attending Mini Maestros with his grandparents. Miss Michelle is talked about a lot in our home and he loves sharing his learnings and new songs every week. It is a great opportunit... See more
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This is my second daughter’s experience at Mini Maestro and she loves it. At only 2, she’s engaging in all activities. It’s structured fun learning about music tailored for each age group! Michelle do... See more
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About Mini Maestros - AltonaNorth
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Welcome to Mini Maestros
Mini Maestros Music & Movement for 0-5s - Believing in Every Child’s Potential.
What We Do
We want your child to thrive, so we make it easy to support their well-being.
We embrace different learning styles and make learning fun.
We combine wonderful local communities with passionate music teachers, resulting in new friendships and creative, confident and expressive young minds and so much fun and laughter.
What We Want
We want every child to reach the primary school gates confident, excited to learn, and equipped with essential classroom skills and experience. We want every child to push those gates open with a skip in their step and a song in their heart.
Our 3 Step Process to Give Your Child the Best Start:
1. Enrol in a Mini Maestros class.
2. Let our age-appropriate, sequential, inclusive music and movement program provide a nurturing and fun space for you and your child to make social connections, develop confidence and be free to fully self-express.
3. Celebrate and connect with your wonderful local community as you marvel in the positive developments your child makes giving them confidence and sense of well-being.
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Pickett Drive, 3025, Altona North, Victoria, Australia
- +61408233420
4.8
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Reply from Mini Maestros - AltonaNorth
Thank you Lorena. My enthusiasm comes from having passion and a love of music, and passing on that passion to little ones, hoping it can bring lots of joy and learning for a good start in early childhood education. 🎶 🐝💕 Michelle
We are having a great time every Monday…
We are having a great time every Monday at Mini Maestros. Archer looks forward to using all different instruments and even week is different. Michelle is a great teacher, leading the class into song and movement.
January 19, 2026
Reply from Mini Maestros - AltonaNorth
Thanks so much for your kind review. Fabulous that Archer enjoys himself and looks forward to the variety of musical instruments. Looking forward to lots of instrument playing in Term 2. 🎶 🐝💕 Michelle
Second daughter’s experience…and she loves it!
This is my second daughter’s experience at Mini Maestro and she loves it. At only 2, she’s engaging in all activities. It’s structured fun learning about music tailored for each age group! Michelle does a great job working with the children and parents too!
December 9, 2025
Reply from Mini Maestros - AltonaNorth
Thanks you for your kind review Emily.
Great to see you coming back with your second child, as you value what our program has to offer. We also strive on helping parents work along side the children in class to ensure you get the most from our activities. This also encourages you to engage on a music level so you can continue the fun learning at home. Looking forward to lots of music making with your family. 🎶 🐝💕 Michelle
Amazing music time in Altona north
We were so lucky to have Michelle as our music teacher! She is not only incredibly talented and passionate about music, but also amazing with children. She teaches with so much patience, joy, and creativity that every lesson becomes fun and inspiring. My child absolutely loved her classes and learned so much. Highly recommend her to anyone looking for a kind, skilled, and dedicated music teacher!
July 28, 2025
Unprompted review
Reply from Mini Maestros - AltonaNorth
Thank you for your lovely review, wonderful to have “R” in class to help increase her confidence with singing and dancing in the class room environment. Wishing you well, thank you for trekking across town after you moved across to the other side of Melbourne. I look forward to hearing great stories about “R's” pre-school development. 🎶 🐝💕Michelle
Michelle is an excellent educator
Michelle is great! She manages to be consistently compassionate and empathetic with all the kids, respecting their unique personalities and needs while also balancing this with being firm and having high expectations of their capacity to engage with the content and follow instructions.
October 18, 2025
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Reply from Mini Maestros - AltonaNorth
Thank you for your lovely review. So great you can see all aspects of our teaching from our wonderful program. Looking forward to lots more music making with your child. 🎶 🐝💕 Michelle
My son Oliver loves attending Mini…
My son Oliver loves attending Mini Maestros with his grandparents. Miss Michelle is talked about a lot in our home and he loves sharing his learnings and new songs every week. It is a great opportunity to socialise and interact with other children and the lessons are fun and engaging. As teachers ourselves, we understand all the work behind the scenes that goes into creating engaging classes for little ones. Thank you Michelle, we appreciate all the love, care and time you put into these classes.
September 22, 2025
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Reply from Mini Maestros - AltonaNorth
Hi, Thank you sooo much for your feedback, great to see you are all enjoying the learning and fun from the classes. I look forward to lots more music making with Oliver in term 4. 🎶 🐝💕Michelle
Great program run by Michelle who is…
Great program run by Michelle who is experienced and passionate about children enjoying and learning about music and social skills.
July 14, 2025
Reply from Mini Maestros - AltonaNorth
Hi Judy. Thanks so much for your review, it's great to see your child thrive in this learning environment. Looking forward to creating more musical social interactions in class. 🎶 🐝💕 Michelle
Reply from Mini Maestros - AltonaNorth
Thank you for your 5 star review, looking forward to lots more music making, education and fun with you all in class. 🎶🐝💕 Michelle
Michelle is absolutely brilliant
Michelle is absolutely brilliant, as are the learning materials and course structure. You can tell a lot of care and thought has been put into everything. Michelle is positive, fun and knowledgeable - you can tell she really enjoys it. Absolutely my favourite thing I have done with my daughter.
July 3, 2025
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Reply from Mini Maestros - AltonaNorth
Thanks so much for the fab review, so great you not only enjoy the classes but also see the benefit of all the student equipment and learning tools. I look forward to lots more music making with you and your daughter in the terms ahead. 🎶 🐝💕 Michelle
Michelle the music teacher is engaging…
Michelle the music teacher is engaging with the kids. Great experience
January 13, 2025
Reply from Mini Maestros - AltonaNorth
Thank you for your kind review. So happy to hear you have enjoyed the classes and found the classes engaging. Wishing you a musical day. 🎶 🐝💕 Michelle
Michelle is amazing and interactive…
Michelle is amazing and interactive with all children, my son looks forward to going every week. As we know kids sleep can be very up and down, Michelle is happy and flexible for you to pop in other days that work out better.
We love the elements of music as well educational development incorporated in the program.
If you need something to do with your child highly recommend mini maestros, in particular the Altona north location.
June 9, 2025
Reply from Mini Maestros - AltonaNorth
Thank you for your kind review. It’s wonderful that you can to see the educational side of our program, we thrive in tailoring our program to suit ages and developments and yet whilst you are enrolled in a particular class we like to be flexible as possible as we understand the juggles required as a parent to keep up with your child’s developmental changes including sleep patterns. Looking forward to lots more music making with you both. 🎶 🐝💕 Michelle
An amazing teacher who introduces little ones to the magic of music
Michelle is so wonderful and both our children adore her. The excitement in their eyes at each lesson says it all. We absolutely love attending Mini Maestros and the wonderful and loving environment which Michelle provides for our little one’s to enjoy music
March 11, 2025
Reply from Mini Maestros - AltonaNorth
Thank you for your lovely review. So wonderful to see the enjoyment and excitement your little one experiences in class each week. Building bonds and an inviting environment goes hand in hand to nurture the love and passion of music. Looking forward to lots of music fun and learning together. 🎶 🐝💕 Michelle
Michelle is gentle
Michelle is gentle, engaging and patient with the little ones. She keeps things rolling leaving little time for distraction, but will work around the littlies who struggle to stay focused (such as my grandson)
December 3, 2024
Reply from Mini Maestros - AltonaNorth
It's wonderful that you’ve noticed how the class structure helps keep the children engaged and getting the most out of each session. I’m looking forward to sharing lots more music-making moments with your grandson! 🎶 🐝💕 Michelle
Fantastic program
My 18th month old daughter loved mini maestros! The program is fun, engaging and perfect for toddlers. The teacher, Michelle, is amazing - so warm and great with the kids. It’s been a wonderful experience and will definitely be back.
January 27, 2025
Reply from Mini Maestros - AltonaNorth
Thank you for your kind review. Looking forward to more music making with your little one soon.
🎶 🐝💕 Michelle
My grandson is learning amazing skills…
My grandson is learning amazing skills apart from musical instruments, movement and singing through play like sharing, listening and patience.
January 24, 2025
Reply from Mini Maestros - AltonaNorth
Thank you for your review. Wonderful to hear that you see all the amazing skills your grandson is learning in our music classes. Looking forward to helping your grandson grow and learn through our program whilst enjoying our music classes. 🎶 🐝💕 Michelle
Highly recommend!
I highly recommend Mini Maestro Altona North. All three of my children have attended Mini Maestro and they have all gained so much from these classes. My third child, who was always quiet and shy has come such a long way and I can see her confidence continue to grow each week! Michelle is a wonderful educator who beams with energy and passion each week. She is consistent in her approach which allows the children to feel comfortable and safe in knowing what to expect. Michelle genuinely cares for the children’s development, she is kind and generous and makes classes so much fun! My daughter loves attending her classes so much!
March 3, 2025
Unprompted review
Reply from Mini Maestros - AltonaNorth
Thank you for your kind review. So lovely to hear that all your 3 children have participated in the Mini Maestros program and especially great that your 3rd child has come such a long way. It is such a compliment when our program speaks volumes through the development of our children.
Thanks, again for your fab feedback, I look forward to lots more confidence building in the joy of music making with you both. 🎶 🐝💕 Michelle.
After lots of research about…
After lots of research about appropriate music programs for 2 year olds l chose Mini Maestros at Altona North. It was going to be a special weekly activity to do with my grandaughter. I was offered a 3 week trial which l thought was a great idea particularly given my grandaughter has a physical disability and would need to use her walking frame to fully participate. Lots of questions were asked particularly in relation to the safety of other children - l assured the facilitator that other children would be safe in relation to my grandaughter moving around under my supervision.
I felt it was ‘wham bam thankyou mam ‘ - in out - next class - little consideration for the time it took for me to get her from sitting position into her walking frame to fully participate with the other children
I was surprised when l was sent an invoice for the trial ? Of course l paid it with no question but l thought a trial was a trial ??
Disappointing when l didn’t enrol that no one contacted me to enquire whether we would be enrolling and if not why not?
I felt that it would have been a relief for the facilitator to not have to modify the program that is so rigid
I would have thought by 2024 businesses would have learnt the value of being inclusive for all children who need to be enriched by music and dance
Extremely disappointed and sad that this was not the case
January 10, 2025
Unprompted review
Reply from Mini Maestros - AltonaNorth
Dear Donna,
Thank you for sharing your feedback and for taking the time to outline your experience. We are truly sorry to hear that your time with Mini Maestros did not meet your expectations, as we strive to provide a welcoming and inclusive environment for all families.
We appreciate the effort you put into researching activities for your granddaughter and are glad you chose Mini Maestros Altona North for your trial. We understand how important this activity was for you and your granddaughter and deeply regret that you left feeling disappointed.
Our facilitator worked to ensure your granddaughter could participate comfortably and safely. This included adjusting activities to her pace and offering assistance with her walking frame to make transitions smoother. These efforts aimed to balance the needs of all children in the class while providing a positive experience for you both. Our program is not rigid, it is in fact a very important part of our teaching methodology that our program be flexible and our teachers are appropriately trained to adapt as they go to meet the needs of each particular class. Adapting the program to meet the circumstances for the best learning outcomes is one of the things our teachers very much enjoy!
Regarding the trial fee, we sincerely apologise for any confusion. The 3-week trial is a paid opportunity to experience the program before committing to full enrolment. This was communicated after the first class when you expressed interest in continuing. Your fee was reduced to reflect your actual attendance and to accommodate your plans.
As for follow-up after your trial, when travel or other commitments are mentioned, our experience is that some families prefer to reach out when they are ready to return rather than be contacted while they are away and while we are a few weeks out from term commencing. As you mentioned you were going away, this was the approach adopted but we apologise if this made you feel unsupported. Follow-ups are done on a case-by-case basis depending on the situation plus we have beginning of year/term reminders.
Inclusivity is a core value at Mini Maestros, and we continuously strive to improve. While it is disappointing to hear that we fell short in your expectations, your feedback highlights areas where we can reassess. We are committed to learning from our feedback to better support families of all abilities in the future.
If you would like to discuss your concerns further or give us another opportunity to create a positive experience for you and your granddaughter, please don’t hesitate to reach out. We would love to work with you to ensure her musical journey is as enriching and enjoyable as possible. 🎶 🐝💕Mini Maestros
Love everything about it.
Love everything about it.
Michelle is amazing and music education is awesome.
July 25, 2024
Reply from Mini Maestros - AltonaNorth
Thanks for that lovely review, it's so great to see you acknowledge the music education portion of our program. We thrive to help young ones nurture, learn and grow through musical fun. It has been so great to see “S” participate more independently each week. I look forward to lots more music making in term 4. 🎶 🐝💕 Michelle
So much to learn for my Bub
So much to learn for my Bub
He loves going to his class
Michelle from Altona session is the best
July 14, 2024
Reply from Mini Maestros - AltonaNorth
Thank you for your lovely review. It's great to see Little "G" engage in the musical activities with the biggest smile. Looking forward to more music making in Term 4. 🎶 🐝💕 Michelle
My baby loves going to the music class!
June 25, 2024
Reply from Mini Maestros - AltonaNorth
Wonderful to hear your baby loves the classes, looking forward to many more fun filled classes with lots of learning. 🎶 🐝💕Michelle
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