This past week Hubby and I had the oppor­tu­nity of chec­king out three dif­fe­rent preschools in our neigh­borhood. Appa­rently you need to apply in the win­ter in order to get your 3 year old into a ‘good’ preschool for the follo­wing fall. So we, of course, jum­ped on the band wagon. We loo­ked at Cha­llen­ger School, Strat­ford, and St. Stephens.

We weren’t too impres­sed with the pre­sen­ta­tion and school site for Cha­llen­ger. The prin­ci­pal just didn’t sell the school all too well. St. Stephens was a great school, and close to our house. Since BC is sho­wing signs of being an early rea­der, and St. Stephens only focu­ses on one let­ter a week in the 3’s and then again in the 4’s pro­gram, it wasn’t what we were loo­king for either.

Stratford’s web­site, in my opi­nion, left a lot to be desi­red. The pro­gram is not well defi­ned online, the site is dif­fi­cult to navi­gate. It also seems quite imper­so­nal. But, when we went to the school, we were very impres­sed! The curri­cu­lum is well orga­ni­zed, class­rooms clean and new loo­king. Kids see­med happy, focu­sed, and all see­med enga­ged in the acti­vity in which they were doing. We put in our appli­ca­tion and now have to wait until the middle of March to see. Funny, how we are pra­ying that a preschool will accept our appli­ca­tion. :-) Who’d of thought?

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