out on the playgrounds….

Take a peek inside our schools and events!

p.s Due to COVID, changes have been made to ensure we are meeting all healthcare protocols. The health and safety of our staff and students have been pushed to the forefront since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. We have implemented many safety and sanitizing protocols in order to decrease the risk of transmission of this disease. Those protocols such as our pandemic plan and how children will be dropped off and picked up can be found below for your peace of mind.

The children are encouraged at all times to be respectful and to display tolerance and acceptance of others who are different from themselves. The playground has a variety of equipment to encourage imaginative play. Our staff complement is compassionate and kind, and suitably qualified to meet the needs of the children. The staff-to-child ratio is very favourable.

A well-designed playground entices children to play and teaches key developmental skills. Playground activities like swinging, climbing and sliding may appear to be "just fun" on the outside but initiate important body systems to develop and function properly. The movements children perform on a playground build both gross and fine motor skills, along with core strength. Playground play also enhances the vestibular system — the sensory system that controls balance and coordination — and develops better body awareness. Playgrounds also offer the opportunity for children of different ages to learn from and help one another. Children will often copy or learn from older children or older children may help younger children—boosting them up while they were climbing, helping them on and off the equipment, encouraging them not to be scared, and offering to help them down from the top of a tall structure. These mixed-age social interactions are an important part of children's social experiences on the playground.

Graduating - yes our children get to graduate and head to BIG school, we make it a big thing! Each child is awarded a certificate with a surprise present. It is their day and we celebrate them.

Every year we host a School Christmas concert, where every child has a role to play. Our teachers and especially our students look forward to finding out what the play will be, and how they will contribute to the school. The excitement and enthusiasm meter goes all the way up in the music room when it comes to beginning rehearsals for the concert starting in November. The teachers help out a lot. They work on their choral speaking or the children’s speaking lines, and they work on the actions of the songs. We often see the children during the week, singing or acting it out in their own way, which is really precious. Our teachers help out wherever they can, getting them organized, getting their costumes on them, and making sure they do their actions properly, so it's definitely a group effort, everyone helps out.