Our Program Statement

At Rainbow Village Day Care Centre, we strive to provide a program that will meet every child's  needs regardless of class, colour, and creed. We thus provide opportunities through play for children to grow physically, emotionally, socially and intellectually.

 In addition, our goal is to provide opportunities to learn about the children in our care and their families, as we believe that children are best understood within the context of their families.

Our curriculum at Rainbow Village is a play based approach that incorporates the Ministry of Education's Policy guidelines as mandated by its document,  How Does Learning Happen? Ontario's Pedagogy For Early Years. We integrate the four foundations of learning: Well Being, Expression, Belonging and  Engagement so as to nurture healthy development that fosters a  sense of self, a desire to play and learn through inquiry and exploration, and to develop authentic relationships and connections among other children, and adults and thus make sense of the world around them and how and where they fit in.

With this ideology being at the core of our planning, educators at Rainbow Village are dedicated and consistent in planning   learning experiences for children that promote self-help skills, turn taking, sharing and self-regulating their emotions. Teaching/ learning experiences are based on their interests and move from the known to the unknown so as to foster curiosity and encourage an eagerness to learn and feel a sense of self-worth when success in learning is achieved.

With this ideology being at the core of our planning, educations at Rainbow Village are dedicated and consistent in planning learning experiences for children that promote self-help skills, turn taking, sharing and self-regulating their emotions. Teaching/learning experiences are based on their interest and move from the known to the unknown so as to foster curiosity and encourage and eagerness to learn and feel a sense of self-worth when success in learning is achieved.

At Rainbow Village, there exists an understanding that every child is an "individual" and is from different cultural backgrounds. We also view children as competent and capable of complex thinking, curious and rich in potential. We accept this and thus all experiences provide choices in terms of materials available for play and different methods to express how and what they have learned.