Bradford Progress Childcare Centres

Our North Centre has limited Toddler space available for September. Please contact Krystal Pearson at 905 778-0176. All our centres are part of the CWELCC funding agreement. The current daily rate for toddler care is 24.57 per day. Further reductions in fees are anticipated for January 2025. Please note that families in our Child Care Centres get first priority for all of our Before and After School Programs.

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Thank you to all the parents and staff that joined us for our AGM last night. We were sad to see some of our long term Board members leaving the board and welcome the new members to the organization.
As part of our meeting we held a draw today for a free week of child care for one child. The winner is Jennifer Bellio from our St. Angela program. Our office will be in touch.
Thank your to our preschool children for pulling the winning name!

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So excited to share this video filmed partially at our Harvest Hills location. Partnerships with our community schools are so vital to supporting families!

Child Care Partners in Education The Simcoe County District School Board (SCDSB) is committed to building strong positive partnerships with Licensed Child Care Operators as partners in educa...

Today was so great! Owen Pacitto #18 of the Innisfil Spartans joined the kids on the ice again. He was teaching backwards skating and sharing his love of hockey! Thank you Owen, we wish you great success with your hockey career.

A new educational experience at the Simcoe County Museum.

Creative Cafe Pottery today at camp!

1st week of camp was so much fun. The children participated in water play, yoga, games and so much more. Here is one friend from Hands on Exotics this week.

Fun Day at the Elmvale Zoo

Are you passionate about quality care for children? Are you looking for a Part time or Full time job in September? We have opportunities for RECE, OCT, SSW and assistants at many of our Before and After school programs. We are also hiring students over the age of 18 for casual work that have some availability to work a few mornings or afternoons a week. Interested candidates can submit their resume directly to [email protected] We will be interviewing candidates during the second and third week of July. We look forward to meeting you!

Last night we had our Annual General Meeting. Thank you to the families that were in attendance, the staff that joined in and our amazing Board of Directors for all their volunteer hours this past year. We had some extremely kind words about our programs and our fabulous staff.
Our winner for our free week of child care can be seen in the photos. Thank you to one of our preschoolers for choosing the winning name. Your week of free child care will be applied in July!
Congratulations Sylvanna Vella!!!!

We are looking to hire RECE Educators and Assistant Teachers for our new child care in Beeton. It is under construction at this time. Join us at the New Tecumseth Job Fair on June 13th to learn more about our organization and the benefits of being part of our team. The job fair is from 3pm-7pm at the New Tecumseth Recreation Centre(7300 Industrial Parkway). We look forward to seeing you there!

Are you a dedicated RECE that works well in a team and wants to contribute to the best possible environment for a child to feel nurtured and loved? We are hiring an infant room teacher and a toddler teacher in Bradford. We are also hiring RECE, OCT , CYW and assistants for our Before and After school programs. Start date will be August 28th. These are split shift positions and come with a competitive wage and other perks. Resumes can be emailed directly to [email protected]

We are so excited to congratulate two of our staff on the birth of their beautiful baby girls. Welcome to the Bradford Progress Family Addison(with her nice warm cap) and Gabriella(cute as a strawberry).

Some of our Fieldcrest staff went out to support and cheer on a couple of children from the B/A group that were playing hockey before the March Break.
Great community support and relationship building. Go Bulldogs!

Who can make a snowman? We can!!! Tec South preparing for winter and holiday fun!

Our Fees for 2023 with CWELCC reduction applied:
Infants 151.20 week
Toddlers 122.85 week
Preschool 106.80 week
Kindergarten B/A 60 week
Kindergarten Full Day during school year 19.37 daily
Space is limited and some sites are full!

Great news for families. We are now accepting Infants at St. Charles Child Care, Toddlers and Preschool children at St. Charles, Harvest Hills and our North site. As a reminder families in our child care programs are given priority for Before and After Care programs as space comes available. Fees were reduced in November by 25% and will be reduced further at the end of December. Current fees for Infants $48 daily, Toddlers $39 daily, Preschool $33.90 daily. Enrolment is 5 days per week. We do not offer part time care at this time. Further fee reduction amounts to follow next week!

Bradford Progress Child Care opened our new St. Charles site on Monday November 7th. We welcomed our first 12 toddlers and 15 preschoolers to this beautiful location. Next week our infants will start. Our fees have been reduced by 25% and will see a further reduction at the end of December. This has been supported by the new Canada Wide and Early Learning Funding. If you are looking for a warm and nurturing child care please reach out to our child care supervisor "Alicia Lalansingh." The temporary contact number is 289 383-6695. Alternatively you can send an email to [email protected]

Halloween fun at Fieldcrest!

Thank you to our great team of supervisors for moving, loading, unloading, unpacking and helping us to get St. Charles Child Care ready. We hope to have our license very soon and hope to have our doors opened to families on November 7th for Toddlers and Preschoolers. Our infants will start the following week. Thank you to Carrie for being our go to Uhaul driver. We are blessed to have an amazing team of staff!

One of our RECE supervisors "Jacob" participated in the County of Simcoe ECE recruitment video filmed at our New Harvest Hills location today!

Bradford Progress Child Care is very excited to announce that we have received our Canada Wide Early Learning Funding. What does this mean for our families:
1. Rebates of up to 25% for children under the age of 6 retro active from April 2022 if your fee was higher than $12 per day.
2. Our families will see that money directly deposited into their accounts on October 19th and 20th.
3. As of November 1st our fees have been reduced for children under the age of 6 by up to 25% to a minimum of $12 per day
4.Further fee reductions for children under the age of 6 will occur in the new year.
5. Although York Region has not accepted our application for the East Centre for the months of April-June, we will reimburse the families affected out of our operating account.
We thank you for your patience, the quick turn around at the County of Simcoe and the hours of work by our head office to make this happen for our families.
Enjoy your weekend!

Look at our staff. This was the last day of a very busy summer program and these athletes still had the strength to climb to the top. Amazing!

It has been a busy week. Welcome to all of our families, the children and all of our staff. All our school age programs are up and running. St Charles Before and After school program had the green light to open this morning and we look forward to opening the Child Care Centre in November. The North Child Care and Harvest Hills Child Care Centres have new children transitioning and we look forward to another successful year. We wish the children that have left for Junior Kindergarten the greatest success.
Today we continued to move items as needed. Thank you to all our staff for your assistance. Thank you Carrie for taking on the role of truck driver and Lyndsey for assisting her.
Have a fabulous weekend everyone!

Making an announcement of a new baby is the best way to end a day. Welcome Ezariah! Olivia, a staff from the North site delivered this handsome boy on September 5th. Congratulations to her and her husband. We can not wait to meet this bundle of joy in person!

We are so excited to announce that our newest Child Care Centre will open on September 6th, 2022. Harvest Hills Child Care, "where we plant the seed for lifelong learning" is beautiful and fully staffed with an incredible team of experienced educators. We offer Toddler, Preschool and School Age care. Families interested in care can reach out to the Supervisor Katy Stever. Please visit our website for her contact information and to view all our other programs. We are excited to have partnered with the Simcoe County District School Board to create a seamless day for families in the community.

On Monday August 29th, a thief walked into our toddler playground at approximately 6:04 am and stole our shelter that provides shade for the children. This was planned and deliberate. Likely a person that lives in the area or uses a community service nearby. An individual on a bike was also present. If you know who this is or one of your neighbours has a large white shelter that has suddenly appeared in their yard this week, please contact the South Simcoe Police. We are so disappointed and hope this individual will return what does not belong to them. Just a reminder to lock things up every night. Please share this!

Decorating cookies and painting pottery. The fun never ends!

Today I stopped by our summer program while they visited in the community. I enjoyed seeing children skating, children listening to stories in the library, children having snack and children playing eye spy..... All staff and all children were engaged, appeared to be having a great time and the transition with over 100 children to head back to the school was seamless. We have an incredible group of children in our program and such an amazing team of dedicated staff and leaders. In addition to heading into the community for some adventures it was also costume day. Have wonderful weekend everyone!

Another great week of Summer Program Fun. The children and staff experienced Monday Yoga, explored nature(even the ducks joined us for Nature bingo!), made bird feeders, played with colour, had a dance party with a great DJ and had a visit from Hands on Exotics. Have a wonderful long weekend to everyone!