In our infant classrooms, children are embraced as capable, confident and curious learners. Here, we support children as they develop meaningful relationships with educators, peers, their environment, and their own growing selves.
We maintain a classroom ratio of 1 educator to 4 children, with a maximum of 8 children per room — enabling strong, responsive relationships and individual attention.
“Respecting a child means treating even the youngest infant as a unique human being, not as an object.” – Magda Gerber
We provide a safe, playful, inclusive and reflective environment
- Play‐based learning, where children explore, discover, and invent.
- Strong relationships and responsive interactions.
- Inclusion, diversity, equity — valuing each child’s family, culture and community.
- A learning environment that invites exploration, inquiry, and emergent curriculum.
Developmental Highlights:
- Belonging & wellbeing: Children develop trusting attachments with educators and peers, feel safe and valued, and gradually build self‑awareness and confidence.
- Communication & connection: Children use gestures, sign language, babbling and early words — all within relationships that respond to their cues, model language, and invite meaning‑making.
- Exploration & invention: Through play, open‑ended materials, sensory textures, and shared experiences, children explore together with peers and educators — inventing, questioning, discovering.
- Social responsibility & community: Children begin to understand themselves in relation to others — sharing materials, taking part in care routines, noticing others’ feelings, and building a sense of community and collaboration.
- Choice, agency & independence: Children are encouraged to make connections, express themselves, feed/drink independently, move freely, communicate needs — within the scaffolding of caring relationships and a responsive environment.
Daily Schedule (flexible to each child’s cues)
- 7:30–9:30 – Arrival & Exploration Time (relationships, exploration)
- 8:30 – Open Snack (social time, independence)
- 10:00–12:00 – Activities/outings/programs (inquiry, play‑based learning)
- 12:00–12:45 – Lunch (shared meal, community, communication)
- 1:00–3:00 – Quiet/nap time (well‑being, trust, rhythm)
- 3:00–3:30 – Open Snack
- 3:30–5:30 – Activities, backyard play, pick‑up (outdoor exploration, relationships, transition to home)
As infants grow and their interests evolve, we partner with families to gently support transitions — always honouring each child’s pace, relationships, and context (family, culture, language, community).
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