About Us
– About Us –
Dreamland Daycare and Out-of-School Care
Dreamland Childcare Centre is built executively with careful consideration of all amenities, as there is a constant need of quality childcare spaces.
Dreamland Childcare Centre has always put a great deal of time and resources towards training our staff. We believe that a great company can only grow and mature to its true potential with the efforts of all its team players.
Monthly staff meetings concerning safety and educational childcare curriculum are ongoing. Third party trainers are at our facilities regularly updating our staff in many areas. All of our team players are First Aid certified, and have to be re-certified upon expiration.
Our Mission & Vision Statement
Our Mission
We are committed to striving for the highest possible standards in early care and education programs and, in so doing, supporting the children, families, students and professionals of Dreamland. At Dreamland Childcare Center, we believe in the value and uniqueness of each child we serve. Our childcare experience is designed to promote each child’s own individual social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development. As caregivers and educators, our mission is to provide a safe and developmentally appropriate learning environment, which fosters a child’s natural desire to explore, discover, create, and become a lifelong learner.
Our Vision
The Dreamland Childcare Centre strives to be a dynamic, professional force dedicated to improving the lives of young children through providing: consummate care and early education for children, support systems and resources for families, model training, and development opportunities for early childhood educators. Parents are invited to share in their child’s daily activities, to volunteer for field trips, special events or to just come in for a visit.
Our Philosophy
Provide a Home-Like Environment that Fosters the Child's Development
We aim to provide a home-like environment that fosters the child’s emotional, social, intellectual, and physical development. We allow the children to explore and learn through guidance given by trained, caring, and knowledgeable staff. We seek to provide individual attention in a clean, healthy, and creative environment designed for children and their needs.
Mutual Values and Respect Towards One Another
Dreamland programs and staff can best be defined by the mutual values which bind us together. Foremost among these is an abiding respect for each individual child in our care. We strive for consistency in our program, be it in the style of interaction, richness, and breadth of activities offered, or the reflection in our daily program of the diversity of families we serve. Our shared philosophy, goals, and objectives provide a guiding framework from which teachers expand using their own experience and creativity.
Our hope is to be a significant source of support for each family while providing a caring learning environment for each child. The goals of the program strongly reflect an abiding sense of respect for children, their unique cultures, and individual development.
Consistent and Individualized Care for Each Child
With infants and toddlers, we work to provide an environment as home-like as possible – warm and welcoming, cozy spaces, photos of family, and so on. In their classrooms, infants develop intimate relationships with a stable caregiver. Caregiving activities such as feeding and diapering are warm, consistent and individualized. These routines are viewed as opportunities for children to receive undivided adult attention and to promote language, self-awareness and social skills. The infants’ pre-existing patterns for feeding and sleeping are respected and incorporated into the child’s routine at the Center. Consistency in routines and schedules allows children to anticipate what is coming next; thus, transitions are predictable.
Provide Experiences that Enhance Childhood Development
The preschool classrooms are composed of children 3 years to 5 years of age. These multi-age groupings exemplify the Center’s commitment to provide experiences that enhance the development of each child’s whole self: creative, intellectual, physical, social and emotional. As each of these facets develops at different rates, the children seek activities and experiences that meet their individual needs. In addition, children with different knowledge and abilities stimulate one another’s thinking and encourage prosocial behaviors amongst themselves. But, perhaps most importantly, this enables families, children and teachers the chance to build strong and consistent relationships with one another.
Careful Classroom Structuring and Planning
All of the Center classroom environments offer a rich variety of spaces, material and activities organized to promote children’s active exploration and mastery. Although classrooms often appear informal, they are the result of careful planning and structuring to ensure that the needs of each child are met in a supportive and nurturing way. Our teachers encourage curiosity and enthusiasm for learning, promote cooperative social interactions, support individual creativity and diversity and provide opportunities for children to use their growing bodies to develop a sense of autonomy and self-worth.
Encouraging Parent Involvement
Children spend the majority of their day involved in a variety of activities: art, block building, dramatic play, music, sorting and matching games, listening to stories, movement activities, science activities and large motor play. Because we wish the Center to be an extension of a child’s family life, we offer a variety of ways for parents to become involved in children’s classroom experience and in Center concerns. Conferences are scheduled at least twice a year, or more frequently at parent or teacher request. The Center plans several social events, parent meetings and work parties each year.