Our comprehensive program provides a range of activities designed to promote social, emotional, cognitive, cultural, language and physical development. It is developmentally appropriate to the ages of the children and allows each child to participate at his/her stage of development. Open-ended activities permit each child to develop to their own potential.

Our program is planned to cater to the children's strengths, interests and areas of need through the integration of specific areas of language development, fine motor and gross motor development, art and craft, music and movement, drama, cognitive skills development and social self-help skills. We encourage self-confidence and independence, as well as group participation, co-operative skills and respect.

Complementary to our thematic structure is a commitment to remaining flexible, responding to spontaneous teaching opportunities and being responsive to the needs and interest of the children as they arise.

Evaluation of our program is continuous (both verbal and written) and is completed on a daily basis. The best indicated of a successful program is the involvement and enjoyment exhibited by the children.

The playroom is designed to offer the children a choice of activities in several important play-learning areas:

A book corner for quiet time and reading, developing pre-reading skills such as hand/eye co-ordination and directionality

A home corner and dress-ups for social-dramatic play. Children use symbols to represent familiar objects and situations to play out their joys, fears, anxieties and pleasures. The child progresses from alone play to being a part of a group learning the basic skills of sharing, caring, co-operation and team work. The child learns to match, sort, and classify items such as cutlery and develop visual discrimination skills in matching cups and saucers, etc.

The Child can re-enact life experiences through play such as frightening or worrisome events for example going to the dentist.

Blocks and construction toys for manipulative play enabling children to make choices, transform and re-arrange elements at will, problem solve, try out ideas, demonstrate creativity, match, sort, sequence and learn about size, shape, number, colour and geometrical and share with others and develop a sense of mastery as they experience success and become a confident learner. The child can develop an understanding of concepts - length, weight, height and area, learn to predict cause and effect relationships, count in sequential order and use large and small muscle skills, grasping, lifting, placing.

Craft for expressing thoughts and concepts creatively through various materials, allowing for free choice, trail of ideas, uses of the senses and personal response. A process of experimentation and discovery where children perceive colour, texture, size, shape and form. Children develop fine motor skills and eye/hand co-ordination to control and organise a variety of materials to express feelings and individual perceptions of the world around them and develop a sense of beauty. Children develop pre-writing skills through different materials such as finger paints. Although your child may have been actively involved throughout the day she or he may not have a "finished product" to take home. If they do, please try to always be positive in your comments as their "masterpiece" represents a great deal of effort. Try saying "aren't those beautiful colours".