For the last 10 years, Libby Shone has developed a successful balance between professional musician, vocal coach, and entertainment industry advisor. While studying for her BMus in Popular Music Performance at the London College of Music, Libby formed and ran her own function/covers band (“Straight Up” and “Re-Play”), both of which performed on a weekly basis at various venues in Central London as well as being hired for weddings, birthdays, and other corporate events. She also ran iSing, a jam night in Acton that focused on vocalists. She was able to share her singing experiences with the Diploma and First Year Degree students, offering valuable performance advice, tips on vocal techniques and generally supporting them in their musical journey. Libby continues to teach vocal skills privately in her home and has expanded to studio singing, live performance and theory lessons. Her understanding approach as well as being able to “practise what you preach” has made her an extremely popular choice as a singing teacher.

Jessica is an experienced and practising primary school teacher and further education tutor, with a specialism in Early Years education. Masters degree in Early Years Education at the UCL Institute of Education at Distinction level. She has over 18 years of experience working with children of all ages and is passionate about helping parents and carers to lay good foundations with their child from the early stages of childhood.

Jessica is our in house Early Years Consultant at To Baby and Beyond, this makes sure we are up to date with the latest research and developments in education and child development. She has a sound understanding of current national frameworks and policies and also endeavours to familiarise herself with international frameworks in order to meet the needs of our international students. Jessica uses this knowledge to provide specialist support and guidance to To Baby and Beyond and inform our courses and professional development provision.

Jessica has worked along side Libby in her music and movement classes at Music and Me classes for a number of years and has seen how much the children and families gain from these.

Jessica facilitates the infant massage, baby yoga and toddler yoga, music and movement instructor courses in London and across the South East. She is also our distance and online learning lead tutor for the instructor courses.

Julie is a registered paediatric nurse, specialising in child health and development, a registered health visitor and Early Years first aider. She is an experienced infant massage, baby yoga and toddler yoga instructor and qualified trainer. She has extensive experience in writing and delivering courses in both the public (NHS) and private sectors. She is also a qualified clinical hypnotherapist, paediatric hypnotherapist EFT and NLP practitioner, life coach and hypnobirthing educator.

Julie has worked with women and their families for over 26 years. She has a wealth of experience with women in the antenatal and postnatal periods and a variety of teaching experience and expertise in child health issues and infant and child development .

Julie is also a mother of twins and understands the importance and impact of positive touch on bonding as she has seen it ‘first hand’.