Island Parent December 2020 / January 2021
Victoria & Vancouver Island Parenting Magazine Top Toys • How to Celebrate the Small Things • 3 Tips to Reduce Stress
Victoria & Vancouver Island Parenting Magazine
Top Toys • How to Celebrate the Small Things • 3 Tips to Reduce Stress
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PRESCHOOL&CHILDCAREDIRECTORY<br />
ESQUIMALT<br />
<strong>Island</strong> Kids Academy Esquimalt.....250-381-2929<br />
High quality child care (ages 1-5). Enriched Curriculum.<br />
Includes Music Classes and Character Development<br />
using the Virtues Project. Wait list being taken.<br />
<strong>Island</strong>kids.ca.<br />
La Pré-Maternelle<br />
Appletree Preschool....................... 250-479-0292<br />
French immersion preschool. Group child care programs.<br />
30 months to school age. Christian centre.<br />
prematernelleappletree.com.<br />
METCHOSIN<br />
Metchosin Cooperative<br />
Preschool...................................... 250-478-9241<br />
Play Explore Learn and Grow in beautiful rural Metchosin.<br />
Morning programs available for 3 and 4 year olds.<br />
Contact our ECEs at metchosinpreschool@gmail.com.<br />
OAK BAY<br />
Oak Bay Preschool........................250-592-1922<br />
Oak Bay Preschool is a co-op preschool, using a playbased<br />
curriculum with qualified ECE and ECEA. We<br />
use a balance of indoor and outdoor classrooms to<br />
enrich your child’s preschool experience. Learn more<br />
at oakbaypreschool.com.<br />
Recreation Oak Bay.......................250-370-7200<br />
Offers full day Daycare and half day Preschool for<br />
children ages 3-5 years old. Before and after school<br />
care for Willows Elementary and afterschool care<br />
for Campus View Elementary is also offered.<br />
Please contact childcare@oakbay.ca or call for more<br />
information.<br />
SAANICH<br />
Camosun College Child Care<br />
Services.......................................... 250-370-4880<br />
Quality licensed facilities on both campuses providing<br />
children, newborn to 5 years, with rich early learning<br />
experiences in a learn through play environment.<br />
camosun.ca/childcare.<br />
Carrot Seed Preschool...................250-658-2331<br />
Where children can discover, imagine, construct and<br />
learn through play. Wondrous natural playground.<br />
carrotseedpreschool.com.<br />
• Licensed programs, for children 3–5 years<br />
• Flexible part-time schedules<br />
• Supported spaces available<br />
• 2, 3 and 4 hour morning or afternoon classes<br />
Encouraging your child’s development and<br />
learning through play and exploration<br />
Fullobeans.ca 250-360-1148 E: fullobeans@snplace.org<br />
<strong>Island</strong> Montessori House........... 250-592-4411<br />
Inclusive, integrated and nurturing Preschool<br />
and Before/After School Care programs.<br />
Lovely rural setting with a focus on<br />
nature and outdoor environmental activities.<br />
islandmontessori.com.<br />
Pre-School<br />
Junior Kindergarten<br />
PacificChristian.ca<br />
250-479-4532<br />
Educational Excellence to the Glory of God<br />
If you’d like to be listed<br />
in the Preschool &<br />
Child Care Directory,<br />
please email<br />
sales@islandparent.ca<br />
Ready Set Grow Preschool............. 250-472-1530<br />
Join our learning through play preschool located in<br />
Hillcrest Elem. Our caring ECEs offer an enriched<br />
Program for 3-4 hour, 2-5 days a week and help with<br />
kindergarten transition. heoscmanager@gmail.com.<br />
St. Joseph’s Early Learning Centre... 250-479-1237<br />
A Christian childcare centre offering daycare and<br />
preschool programs for 3-5 year olds. Children learn<br />
through play-based and emergent curriculum in a<br />
warm and nurturing environment.<br />
St. Margaret’s School<br />
Jr. Kindergarten................................. 250-479-7171<br />
Apply now for our Early Learning (JK and Kindergarten)<br />
Programs. Early learning at SMS is a curriculum-based<br />
program for 3 and 4 year olds. admissions@stmarg.ca.<br />
Wiseways Child Care Centre.......250-477-1312<br />
Established, quality, licensed, Christian centre for<br />
3-5 year olds. Experienced ECEs, cheerful spacious<br />
facilities, large playground. Subsidized fees<br />
welcome. Call for a tour. Wisewaysvictoria.com.<br />
SIDNEY<br />
Sidney Preschool............................. 250-655-3333<br />
We are a licensed co-operative preschool with a<br />
philosophy of learning through play! Four and six<br />
hour programs available for children ages 2.5-5.<br />
Celebrating 48 years! sidneypreschool.com.<br />
Child Care<br />
Resource & Referral<br />
Funded by the Province of BC<br />
Your community’s best source<br />
of child care information<br />
and resources.<br />
Looking for child care?<br />
Need help with the Affordable Child Care Benefit?<br />
Taking care of children?<br />
Need child care training?<br />
Call your local Child Care Resource & Referral for free referrals and resources.<br />
Victoria & Gulf <strong>Island</strong>s: 250-382-7000 or 1-800-750-1868<br />
Sooke: 250-642-5152 West Shore: 250-217-7479<br />
Cowichan Valley: 250-746-4135 local 231<br />
PacificCare (Ladysmith north): 250-756-2022 or 1-888-480-2273<br />
gov.bc.ca/ChildCareResourceReferralCentres<br />
36 <strong>Island</strong> <strong>Parent</strong> Magazine <strong>Island</strong><strong>Parent</strong>.ca
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