Hawthorne On Essex Daycare is a licensed non-profit community based childcare centre serving children attending Essex Public School and Hawthorne II Bilingual Alternative school as well as children in the community ages 2 ½ to 12 years old.

Breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack is served to our preschool to Senior Kindergarten children. Breakfast and an afternoon snack are served to our School Age children. School Age children (grade 1 and up) are required to bring a packed lunch from home on a daily basis. ( Please note that School Age children eat lunch with the school)

 Preschool Room

Our preschool program provides a vast array of opportunities for children to build upon their existing strengths and skills as well as discover new ones. We nurture and guide children in their budding development as they explore learning experiences, develop self-control and become more independent. By exploring the “world” around them, the preschool child will develop the skills to become empathetic, nurturing, friendly, respectful to themselves as well as others, self-reliant, responsible and empowered individuals.

Our play based curriculum helps by preparing each child academically, socially, emotionally and physically for kindergarten readiness.

Junior and Senior Kindergarten

Both of our Kindergarten programs continue to stimulate and promote development and independence while supporting and encouraging early school experiences. We continue to utilize play as a vehicle for exploration and learning while incorporating the expansion and maintenance of developing friendships, evolving independence and self-help skills.

School Age

Our School Age curriculum is developed by input from the children in the program. The children decide what activities they would like to participate in the following week and the teachers include these in the weekly program plans. We have found this to be very successful as it is child directed and will often flow into helping with projects in school. Children also enjoy a vast array of arts and crafts activities, games and sports. Emphasis is put on cooperation, respecting ones self as well as others, solving problems and finding solutions when conflicts arise.