North Herts Music Classes
Andrea Lee Barrett
07944 759007
email: andrea.lee@musictrain.co.uk
Andrea founded The Music Train in 1995, and the organisation soon grew to cater for 1000 children a week, operating at that size for many years.
As well as being fun, The Music Train classes are highly educational. Andrea has a Masters Degree specifically in Early Years Music Education and Leadership as well as a PGCE in Kodaly based Early Childhood Music which means our programme is based on solid founations.
In 2024 we were selected to become an official Partner of Hertfordshire County Music Service, providing consultancy and training for their new Early Years Music programme. Andrea has also in the past, trained each of the Music Train teachers and written the current teaching programme.
Andrea is passionate that every child should be given the opportunity to develop their innate musicality to its fullest potential and a number of her pupils, taught over the past thirty years, have gone on to perform in West End shows and start careers in music. Most recently we have trained one of our early pupils to deliver EY music herself as a County Music Teacher.
Parents have said and written many lovely things about our classes over the years but this little quote sums it up, "She makes the class so much fun, and without any effort my boys have gained fantastic music ability which is helping them in so many ways."
AUTUMN TERM 2026
TERM DATES:
Weekday Classes: Monday 7th September - Saturday 19th December. No classes 26th October - 8th November (2 week break) and also no classes 30th November - 4th December. Term length is 12 weeks.
Saturday Classes: 5th September, 19th September, 17th October, 14th November, 5th December, 19th December. Saturday term length is 6 weeks. Saturday Fees are £10.50 a session due to a higher hall hire rate.
A £10 Christmas party gift supplement is added to this term's fees for weekday and Saturday classes.
New families are encouraged to book a single trial session before committing to the term.
| Day | Times | Age Band |
|---|---|---|
| Mon | 09:30 | 2.5 years - rising 5 |
| Mon | 10:30 | 12 months - rising 3 years |
| Mon | 11:45 | 0 - 12 months Nurturing Babies' Musicality Course |
| Wed | 09:30 | 2 years - rising 5 |
| Wed | 10:30 | 0 - 24 months |
| Fri | 09:30 | 2 years - rising 5 |
| Fri | 10:30 | 0 - 24 months |
| Sat | 09:20 | 2.5 years - rising 5 |
| Sat | 10:20 | 3 - 30 months |
Topics
Sep - Oct 2026: General Topic - Transport; Advanced Topic - Rhythm Notation
Nov - Dec 2026: General Topic - Food; Advanced Topic - Large Percussion Instruments
Location
Mrs Howard Memorial Hall, Norton Way South, (off Hillshott), Letchworth, Hertfordshire, SG6 1NX. There is a paid for car park adjacent or 3 hours free parking at Morrisons, a 5 minutes walk away with a buggy. Weekday classes are held in the upstairs Underwood Room. Saturday classes are sometimes in the upstairs Underwood Room and sometimes in the Main Hall. Look for the signboard outside the relevant entrance.
Cancelled classes
We regret that if classes have to be cancelled due to force majeure such as snow, or on specific medical advice, they cannot be refunded.
Letchworth, Hertfordshire Early Years Music Classes for babies, toddlers and preschoolers 0-5
