Crown Parent Participation Preschool

Mothers are the heart of Crown Preschool. For over 75 years, mothers' love, dedication, and brilliance have kept our preschool alive, offering a beautiful first experience of community for young children. Happy Mother's Day to all of our Crown Preschool mothers, past and present.

A few spaces are still available in our Friday Toddlers' class and our Mon-Thu preschool class for September. Get in touch at [email protected] to inquire!

Our spooky haunted house is looking ready for Halloween!

Is there a better season in preschool than fall? Beautiful leaves, plenty of puddles and, in our case, amazing neighbours who grow the heaviest pumpkin in British Columbia!

We are delighted to welcome Dr Deborah MacNamara back to Crown Preschool.

Please join us for her talk, "Making Sense of Preschoolers," on Thursday, Sep 26th in the Fireside Room at St Philip's church.

Admission is by donation, and supports Crown Preschool's aim to remain an affordable, inclusive, community-oriented program.

Questions? Email [email protected]

Spaces are now available in our highly-regarded Friday Toddlers' class. Click on the link in our bio for our registration page.

This beautiful class is a joyful introduction to preschool for children and their grown-ups. Find fun, support, and play in the Crown classroom every Friday from 9:30-11:15, joining a close-knit community of peers who are also in the exciting (and exhausting!) toddler years. The Toddlers' class is always led by an experienced, fully qualified Early Childhood Educator, led by Crown head teacher Miss Nina. Enrolment in the Toddlers' secures priority registration for the following year's 3/4s class.

Questions? Contact us at [email protected]

Some more photos of our beautiful outdoor days this week. They were just as joyful as they look.

When our building is unavailable because of a tv show filming, we pivot! How lucky we are to have these beautiful places so nearby, where we can have outdoor adventures together.

Although we are not focused primarily on outdoor learning, it is an approach that meshes perfectly with our play-based, relational, inquiry-led philosophy. We ARE a rain-or-shine, daily outdoor play program, which means the children and families were ready and willing to try out some full mornings outdoors. This kind of support from families is essential to successfully implementing outdoor learning in early childhood education, and we are so grateful for the trust we've been given by all of our wonderful families.

Our two mornings outdoors have brought growth, wonder, challenge and joy - everything we could have asked for! We are sure there will be more to come before our year together comes to an end.

We are very excited to share that our silent auction is online this year, and FULL of incredible items just waiting for your bids!

Help us to raise the funds we need to refurbish part of our playground, and keep Crown children playing happily for many more years to come.

Link is in bio. Contact us with any questions at [email protected]

Often, play can be hugely enriched and extended through simple but carefully chosen additions to the environment.

A months-long interest in enclosures in this class was starting to feel "stuck". Bringing in a basic, wooden climbing frame has given the children an exciting new way of engaging with this schema, which comes with endless offshoots of learning: STEM, negotiation and compromise, language development, dramatic play... Their themes and interests are refreshed, and play continues to be the absolute best vehicle for learning and development.

Get out and PLAY today!!

Playing with light. Playing with shadows. Playing with animals. Playing together. Play is learning.