About us

Welcome to Junior Hub Child Care Centre, your licensed childcare facility nestled in the vibrant neighborhood at the intersection of Hwy 7, 407, and Yonge Street. Our dedicated team comprises compassionate and nurturing educators committed to creating a secure, play-based atmosphere. We prioritize fostering the holistic development of children by providing a cheerful and convenient setting that promotes their physical, social, emotional, and cognitive growth.

A nurturing environment

We strive to create an environment where children get to:

• Feel secure, safe, and happy in an atmosphere created especially to help them develop to their full potential.
• Participate in a well-balanced program that encourages them to explore their natural environment.
• Develop skills that encourage communication, self-regulation and exploration.

We are located at 8100 Yonge St., Unit 8-9, and are open Monday through Friday, 7:30am to 6:00pm. We offer toddler, preschool, kindergarten, PA day, March break, and summer camp programs.

How children learn here

Our programs use observation and documentation to plan play-based learning experiences that encourage active exploration, inquiry, independence, choices, problem solving, wonder and theory building. Regular communication between families and educators is emphasized in our programs. Using the common framework in How Does Learning Happen? Ontario's Pedagogy for the Early Years (2014), our centre supports children to achieve their goals in four developmental areas.

Reference: How Does Learning Happen? Ontario's Pedagogy for the Early Years (2014).

Our educators

Our committed Registered Early Childhood Educators (RECE) are all registered through the College of Early Childhood Educators, and are trained in First Aid and CPR. Educators are carefully selected and screened to meet the needs of Jr. Hub, children and their families. Our RECEs participate in continuous professional learning, which helps them remain current in their knowledge, skills, and professional values. They reflect on their practice, and identify ways in which they can grow professionally.

Our educators view children as:

• Competent, curious, and motivated learners.
• Individuals who bring valuable knowledge, ideas, and experiences about their physical and social world to the classroom.
• Individuals who begin to make sense of their world from the moment they are born.
• Active learners and social learners.
• Individuals who come to our programs influenced by family, gender, culture, and previous experience.
• Individuals with a variety of learning styles and ways of understanding and constructing knowledge.

Volunteers and students do not have unsupervised access to the children in attendance at Jr. Hub, nor can they be counted in the staffing ratio. No child will be supervised by a person less than 18 years of age.

Our goals

The early years are critical to your child's positive growth and development, and children are eager to learn new skills, experience challenging opportunities, and be encouraged for their strengths and talents. We strive to promote optimal development in all aspects of a child's life.

Our primary goal is to help each child develop a healthy self-concept, confidence, curiosity, and motivation to learn, and the ability to build cooperative relationships with other children and adults for life. We strive to ensure that every child receives creative and fun learning experiences that support their cognitive, social, emotional and physical development. Our activities and programs are all designed to engage your child's natural curiosity and provide a foundation for lifelong success. Preparing your child to succeed in school and in life is the core of our childcare curriculum, in line with Ontario's Pedagogy for the Early Years: How Does Learning Happen? and Early Learning For Every Child Today.

Philosophy

We believe that every child is unique and possesses their own temperament and learning style.

We believe that children are competent, capable of complex thinking, curious and rich in potential. We are committed to the "emergent curriculum" approach to program planning, in which activities "emerge" based on ideas and interests from both children and staff. This spontaneous learning process prepares them for acquiring more complex skills of reading, writing and mathematical reasoning.

We believe play is integral to children's learning and essential to quality of life in childhood. Exploration and play are a child's primary way of understanding the world. Children are agents of their own learning, actively building knowledge, skills, dispositions, and feelings. We are committed to fostering each child's self-esteem, well-being and growing need for independence. All aspects of their development and learning are interrelated and interdependent.

At JHCCLC, our youngest learners are supported in the development of positive and effective communication. Early on, children experience meaningful opportunities and individual support related to expression and self-regulation. Rich in potential and ability, children develop understanding and competence in emotional expression, emotional intelligence and self-awareness. Expression is supported through observation, documentation, listening, and authentic communication. Child-initiated positive communication creates a pathway to self-regulation and problem solving. Through positive, self-directed problem-solving and respectful discussion, the children form relationships and practice behaviours that are foundational to effective lifelong communication and assist in creating a sense of belonging.

We use How Does Learning Happen? Ontario's Pedagogy for the Early Years (2014) to guide our programming and pedagogy. We provide a positive framework to support our children and families in an environment that promotes belonging, well-being, engagement, and expression.

We always:

• Commit to helping children develop independence, confidence and skills for the future.
• Recognize the uniqueness of each child.
• Keep children healthy and safe through shared and high quality practice.
• Become the catalyst for children making progress and achieving at their own pace.
• Promote equality and diversity.
• Make confidence an on-going priority.
• Ensure that parents and families are involved, encouraged and consulted.
• Make sure planning and self-evaluation is effective.
• Establish an ambitious vision that everyone shares and understands.
• Promote well-qualified staff and ongoing professional development.
• Establish meaningful and supportive activities, and allow children to make choices.
• Give children the time to think and speak.
• Allow children to do things at their own pace.
• Give children the skills and confidence to take the lead.
• Always plan for improvement.