Hillhurst Sunnyside Daycare
February 2024- The Hillhurst Sunnyside Daycare is open to children aged 19 months to 5 years! We are a licensed childcare program, following the Alberta's FLIGHT Emergent Curriculum ensuring that individual needs of all our children are met through a wide variety of exploratory, creative, educational, and recreational play. Our location in the HSCA Community Centre allows the program to have access to many of the beautiful spaces Hillhurst Sunnyside has to offer. Reach out to Shannon Martel, Childcare Director at Shannon.m@hsca.ca or call 403-270-9703.
About the Program
Our Approach:
Here at the Hillhurst Sunnyside Daycare we aim to create a program where the individual needs of all our children can be met through a wide variety of creative, educational, and recreational play. In recognizing each child as an individual, we attempt to offer as wide a range of play as possible, so their developmental needs can be met daily. Through these choices we hope to enhance the physical, social, intellectual, creative, and emotional well-being of our children in a safe and secure environment where they feel they have room to grow and flourish. Each day we offer a variety of both active and passive play such as: gym time, outdoor play, art and creative activities, and general games and play centers. A quiet area for downtime is also provided. In giving our children these play opportunities, we aim to encourage confidence, self-esteem, self-awareness, and social awareness that will be the basis for learning to make choices for themselves as they grow.
We aim for the full participation of all children in our program, including those with diverse learning needs. We strive to support these children through our partnership with programs that specialize diverse learning: Kin-Dir Education Foundation, Providence, etc.
We are implementing Play, Participation and Possibilities, an Early Learning and Childcare Curriculum Framework for Alberta through a partnership with Grant McEwan University working with our assigned Pedagogical Partner and the Alberta FLIGHT Curriculum.
Communication is also an important part of the Hillhurst Sunnyside Daycare. By encouraging the children to communicate and listen, we hope they will feel loved and cared for by their educators and will learn to have these same relationships with others. By encouraging language development, we also strive to give the children the means to express themselves and interact with others. Social interaction is an important life skill, and we feel it is our duty to help each child develop social skills such as patience, cooperation, respect for self and others as unique individuals, and how to build positive human relationships.
The Hillhurst Sunnyside Daycare aims for excellence in its standard of care for children. As such, we will participate in the accreditation process through the Alberta Childcare Accreditation.
Ultimately, however, the Hillhurst Sunnyside Daycare is about having as much fun as possible in a safe and secure environment with enthusiastic, energetic people who care!
Free choice:
Each day your child will be given a choice of several activities in which to participate. These include but will not be limited to:
Gym time (including games or free play)
Outdoor play (the program has an enclosed private outdoor playground)
Arts and Creative activities such as: paint, playdough, sand & water play
Clubs/Learning Opportunities: Dance, Drama, Cooking, Art, Drama, Gardening buddies, foreign language learning, biking, swimming, gymnastics, etc. (the clubs offered change each year depending on the interests of the children enrolled)
*all clubs are optional and some require a minimal additional fee to join, such as drama and dance, due to materials required or additional instructor fees (hiring a professional)Free Play (Games, blocks, manipulatives, drama center, dolls, etc.)
Organized group activities (treasure hunts, field trips, etc.) We will at times offer one larger, structured activity in which all the children from the classroom participate together.
Waitlist - Waitlist applications are now open!
Thank you for your interest in our Early Learning and Child Care Centre program. Please understand that because space is limited, we will contact you as soon as a spot in available for your child. Please find the Waitlist Application form below.