The maximum capacity of the Children's Centre is 143 children from birth to kindergarten, with the new Fulmer Childcare Centre adding 74 of those spaces.
As a licensed child care centre in the province of British Columbia, the Children’s Centre operates under the umbrella of the Ministry of Education and Child Care. We work closely with B.C.’s Early Learning Framework, a provincial document that pushes the boundary of professionalism and the role of the educator.
The Children’s Centre is an academic laboratory supporting course curriculum and experiential, practice-based classroom learning for Capilano University's School of Education and Childhood Studies students. It is one of the top lab schools in Canada for training future educators.
Inspired by the Reggio Emilia approach, the Children’s Centre began working with a pedagogist and an atelierista over 15 years ago.
The pedagogist's role is to transform early childhood spaces by working alongside educators and children on projects that align with the B.C. Early Learning Framework’s vision.
As children begin their experience with us at the Children’s Centre, they are welcomed into a vibrant and rich collective life; life with other children, educators, materials and the place that surrounds us. Our early learning classrooms are pedagogical spaces; spaces of co-constructed emergent curriculum, exploration and experimentation. It is a lived curriculum. One that emerges through the shared research of ideas and interests and carried out with a sense of joy and in the generative spirit of working together.
Our mandate
Serving the University community by providing high-quality early learning and care to the children of students and employees.
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How to enrol your child
Complete the form using the link below to add your child's name to the waitlist for the Children's Centre.
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143
number of total childcare spots
2
centres
with a third in the works
8:1
ratio
of staff to children
18
Early childhood educators employed at the Centre
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