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Family Day offers early learning and care to children from infants to 6 years of age in licensed child care centres in York Region, Peel Region and Toronto East (see School Age Programs for ages 6 to 12 years). Our programs offer a safe and secure environment, opportunities for both large and small group interaction, nutritious lunches and snacks and a HighScope-based curriculum.

Centre Locations

Click on one of our map links (City of Toronto | Region of Peel | Region of York) to find which of our locations is nearest you. You may also contact our Child Care Services Department at 416-922-3434 / 1-800-263-9703, during business hours for more information.

The HighScope Educational Approach

HighScope’s educational approach emphasizes "active participatory learning". Active learning means children have direct, hands-on experiences with people, objects, events, and ideas. Children’s interests and choices are at the heart of HighScope programs. They construct their own knowledge through interactions with the world and the people around them.

Children take the first step in the learning process by making choices and following through on their plans and decisions. Teachers, caregivers, and parents offer physical, emotional, and intellectual support. In active learning settings, adults expand children’s thinking with diverse materials and nurturing interactions.

Growing Readers Early Literacy Curriculum
This HighScope program has been documented to significantly impact children's literacy knowledge and understanding. It follows an "active learning" educational approach, with children involved with hands-on activities that help them become successful and motivated readers. The small group literacy activities support the four critical components of early literacy - comprehension, phonological awareness, alphabetic principle and concepts about print.

See the HighScope FAQ pages for more information.

Learning Language and Loving It™

To further support quality early learning, Family Day is committed to training all our child care centre staff in Learning Language and Loving It™ - The Hanen Program for Early Childhood Educators/Teachers. This approach promotes children's social, language and literacy development within every day activities and conversations.

Family Day was featured in The Hanen Centre's December 2007 issue of WigWag – a publication for Hanen Certified Speech-Language Pathologists worldwide.

“Family Day took on the not-so-minor task of training its entire child care staff. … They were looking for a comprehensive training model to compliment their HighScope® curriculum, enabling them to create language-rich environments in which children are engaged in frequent, stimulating interactions with educators and peers.”

Read the complete article online.

Fee Assistance/Subsidy

You may qualify for child care subsidy. Contact the Children's Services in the area you live for more information and to apply: City of Toronto | Region of Peel | Region of York