Pre-school Enrichment



    • Pre-School Music (3-4 years)

      Northwood Music is the premier music solutions provider in pre-school Kinder Beat music programmes in Singapore. We are the largest licence academy for the award-winning ‘Kinder Beat’ music programmes serving kindergartens such as Nanyang, Growing Up Gifted, Holy Grace, Lumiere, Little Sparks, Calvary Baptist, Daystar, Maris, Arise and so on.

      Click on the audio clip below for an introduction to KINDER BEAT music!

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      What is ‘Kinder Beat’? How does this programme benefit my child?

      This is a groundbreaking music programme that introduces elementary concepts of music learning to children aged 3-4 years in a hip and fun way!
      Kinder Beat builds a very solid foundation for piano/keyboard playing and goes beyond the traditional ‘music and movement’ curriculum. It provides a holistic approach based on :

      1. Rhythm and Beats

      2. Movement, dance and gesture

      3. Singing songs, rhymes and solfege

      4. Story telling and mime

      5. Listening, reflecting and responding

      6. Pre-reading through pictorial representation

      7. Introduction to traditional music notation

      8. Percussion playing (tuned and untuned)

      9. Keyboard playing and keyboard games

What is the teaching philosophy?

  • Northwood Music champions the foundational development of rhythm as fundamental in any child’s musical development. At the nursery level (age 3-4), we introduce to children to the basic foundation of music – rhythm, and rightly so. This is in line with the famous Swiss Music Educator Dalcroze’s philosophy that rhythm, not melody or harmony, is the foundation of music. Without an instinct of rhythmic feel, counting notes is just a mechanical and dull exercise.

    We conduct ‘Kinder Beat’ programmes at various kindergartens around Singapore. Smart Junior Kindergarten at Pasir Ris allows the public to join in their Kinder Beat programmes.