[请求] Experience with "The Children's Place"?

[drc_98]

Opinion wanted!
Anybody has ever sent their kids to "The Children's Place" daycare centre on Legget St in Kanata?
Good, bad experiences with them.

Thanks

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[kliu]

I think they have been quite reputable in the past few years from reviews.

 

[sophiagao]

I worked full time there last year. personally I don't like it. It's not good child care center, too many children and some of the staffs are not professional.

最初由 drc_98 发布
Opinion wanted!
Anybody has ever sent their kids to "The Children's Place" daycare centre on Legget St in Kanata?
Good, bad experiences with them.

Thanks

Reply to drc_98@rogers.com or QQH

 

[SweetBunny]

Hi Sophiagao,

Can you please tell us more details? My kid is on the waiting list of the Children's Place in Kanata. Your comments scared me. Could you please give us more information?

 

[HomeAlone]

Strongly recommend Elsie Staiford Child Care on Terrey road. My daughter learned a lot of things there.

 

[SweetBunny]

There will be a Morgant's Grant Montessouri private school open at Kanata. They offer a Toddler Program (18 month to 3 years) and a Casa Program (3 years to 6 years). The full-day program is from 7:30am to 5:30pm. Toddler Program costs $1250 per month, Casa Program costs $1050 per month. Lunch is not included.

If anyone has experience with the Montessouri schools, could you please share some experience with me? I am thinking about it as one option for my kid and am eager to know any experience from moms here...
Thanks in advance.

 

[kliu]

I heard that the new Morgan's Grant Montessori's principal is the wife of the current Kanata Montessori's principal.

 

[kliu]

最初由 SweetBunny 发布
Hi Sophiagao,

Can you please tell us more details? My kid is on the waiting list of the Children's Place in Kanata. Your comments scared me. Could you please give us more information?

I think Children's Place should be ok. They have been serving in Kanata for 25 years, so if there's indeed any concerns, local people must know about it and we should see a lot of public criticisms.

Our boy will be going there too. Their staff ratio is 1 staff to 3 toddlers, and their programs seem very interesting to me(http://www.childrensplace.on.ca/infant.html).

My office is close by, so I always see them bringing toddlers and kids for a walk or outdoor play. They seem to have many staff, and I had talked to one of the staff before, and her own children are also being cared there.

 

[sophiagao]

This is just my two cents. I'm an ECE, so I know for licensed day care, there should be a ratio(teacher-children ), Infant (1-3), toddlers(1-5) and preschools (1-8). For a standard licensed day care, infant at most 10 in a classroom with 3 teacher, toddlers 15 and preschoolers 24. Children's place has a bigger classroom. for example, they have senior infant room in toddler's room, but for the most of time, these two groups are together, and I know they are over ratio lots of time. for preschoolers, you can go and see how many preschoolers they have upstairs. there are several seperate room upstairs, but i know lots of time they have bigger groups than standard one. Lunch time is always over ratio. Plus some of the staffs are not professional.
It is hard to find a good day care center. I suggest you to visit some good day care center like Early Learning Center at Algonquin College, look at the ratio, the interaction between staff and children, the room settings, how children play, you'll get a visual information.
Hope this will help.