A safe and fun environment for your children to play and grow,
and quality care you can trust in our out of school program
It is our belief that if staff dedicate their time and energy to the enhancement of each child's individuality and to celebrating each child's uniqueness, to being responsive to each child's needs/abilities/interests while providing nurturing, respectful care in a stimulating and challenging, yet safe environment, with exposing the children to as much different play/learning opportunities as possible, each child will have a great start in life, will have better opportunity to fulfill his/her potential and become happy and contributing member of society.
We believe that children need and want time and freedom to experiment, explore, move, laugh, think, play and be creative while positively guided to promote respect, self-regulation, and socially acceptable behaviours.
It is our belief that the best way to attend to children's needs is to offer opportunities and experiences that nurture growth and learning, and support ideas through careful planning and encouragement.
Our mission and philosophy are based on principles of fostering children's well-being, learning, growth, and development through play and exposure to meaningful and fun experiences in combinations with positive guidance and designed to address children's development in all developmental areas and based on children’s mental, emotional, spiritual and physical needs, abilities and interests and in accordance with developmental stages in supportive, positive, nurturing, inclusive, physically and emotionally enriched and safe environment and in collaboration with families.
Our program’s curriculum and planning based on two concepts: flight/emergent and themed/topical curriculum.
Our curriculum and planning designed to expose our children to as much experiences as possible and covers important educational topic. Our planning is based on children's needs, abilities, and interests and done through observations and implementing children ideas and initiatives as well as encouragement and incentives. Every day, as part of our planning, children can be involved in a variety of experiences including but not limited to Literacy, Homework, Craft, Music, Science, Interest Clubs, Special projects, Gym, games, circle activities, and fun activities outside. Spontaneous/free play and planned activities happen simultaneously. All play stations opened all day. Children always can choose what they want to do and encouraged to try something new and different. As a part of our curriculum, we offer internal and external field trips and community guests on PD days. Our fun activities in combination with positive child guidance are designed to foster growth in all developmental areas and keep children happy, give them sense of security, promote positive self-image, and, over all, provide with positive and emotionally/physically safe environment to play and learn.
We consider our program unique as our planning/curriculum is focused on multiculturalism, diversity, and family traditions as one of the means to foster children's sense of belonging as well as extensive music experiences.
The experiences provided to the children are designed to nurture their development in the following areas:
Physical Development
· Developing gross and fine motor skills
· Increasing body awareness (nutrition, hygiene, health)
· Improving eye-hand coordination and perceptual skills
· Exploring rhythm, movement, and recreation
Social Development
· Getting along in group. Fostering Cooperation
· Learning responsible behaviors
· Respectful interactions with adults and peers
· Respecting ethnic/cultural/age/sexual differences
· Learning about and participating in multicultural activities
· Expressing feelings appropriately. Self-regulation
· respect for themselves and others
· learning problem solving skills and conflict resolution skills
· Learning leadership skills
Intellectual Development
· Providing experience with math and science
· Promoting children's curiosity about the world by encouraging observation, exploration and experimentation
· Building reading, writing and language skills
Creative Development
· Experiencing and creating art, music, drama, and dance
· Fostering imagination and creativity through a variety of lead and open creative experiences
Emotional and Spiritual Development
· Promoting positive self image and sense of security
· Developing independence, initiative, and trust
· Equipping children with skills to evaluate and consciously build on the moral norms and ideals towards themselves, other people, society, and the world generally
· Forming personal identity, feelings of cooperation and solidarity and mutual support as a member of broad community, society and world community
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Our curriculum is based on topics that are related to educational blocks outlining important concepts and seasonal celebrations. Our curriculum is just a guideline with topics to pick and choose during the year. All topics are supported with fun activities related to the subject. Curriculum and activities are flexible and depend on children's interests and staff observations and can be changed to meet emergent curriculum at any time.
Suggested educational blocks and related topics: All about me - topics related to emotional well-being, self-esteem, sense of belongings. All about others - topics related to social skills, socially acceptable behaviours, cooperation, kindness, manners, empathy. Nature around us -topics related to Planet green and nature. Inclusiveness and Diversity - topics related to Multiculturalism, Different abilities, differences celebrations, respect for all. Healthy living - topics related to Physical well being: healthy food, active living, body awareness, safety. Feelings and emotions - topics related to emotional well being, feelings, emotions, self-regulation skills. Community living - topics related to Community, and living together. Just for fun - Miscellaneous topics.
Our daily routine/planning is designed to promote children’s development through a balance of free play, and planned activities; staff lead and children led activities. Planning is based on curriculum topics, observations and children's input as well as flight/emergent curriculum. Every week we plan for Literacy (including homework), Physical, Music, Science, Craft activities. Children free to choose what they want to do during the day at the Program and encouraged to explore new activities. All play stations such as imaginative play, dramatic play, building play, board games, craft and colouring, science and quiet reading area, area for physical activities are open all day for free play and exploration to foster creativity and imagination, and independence.