Discovery Children's Centre

The Board and Staff would like to invite you as a family to join us in supporting one of the following two charities this Christmas. 1. Christmas Cheer Board – We have two boxes in our hallway where will happily collect any non-perishable food or gift items for the Christmas Cheer

On October 19th (next Thursday) we will host 120 teachers from across Manitoba in our Adventure Playground.  This all day workshop will be facilitated by Adam Bienenstock (www.naturalplaygrounds.ca) and planned by the Manitoba Physical Education Teachers Association.   The workshop will run from 8:00 am – 4:00 pm

Due to the weather forecast and our desire to have student pictures taken outside we have pushed postponing Tuesdays pictures till Thursday.  For those groups assigned to Wednesday for pictures, nothing changes.  For those assigned to Tuesday you will now be having the pictures taken on Thursday.  Thanks for your

Did you know you can direct your United Way or All Charities Campaign contributions to Discovery Centre?  Many of your workplaces are about to embark on a workplace fundraising campaign with either United Way or the All Charities Campaign (provincial employees). If you plan on participating in your workplace campaign,

On September 19th the parents of Discovery will gather for our Annual General Meeting (AGM).  As a Not-for -Profit organization we will need to elect this coming year’s slate of Board Members.  8 of our 12 Board members are returning so we are searching for 4 new volunteers.  Please

Many of you will not have children in room #4 and will have missed all the excitement as their old flooring was removed and their new flooring installed.  Here is a picture of the final outcome.  What a very nice change.  A special thank-you to the always positive staff in

If you have been paying with cash and will not be using cheques (starting in September) consider filling out an EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer) form in the office.  The staff would be glad to help you with that.

We have just completed a four week, first time, experimental program with four 10 year old’s from China.  The students had a wonderful time in our School-age program and their school (Grace International Language Center) will likely be asking us to accommodate some of their students in July of

At our June Staff Meeting, Mr. Blatz, Mrs. Freeman and Mrs. Gordon shared some of their experiences and reflections from their professional development journey to New Zealand. Staff enjoyed seeing photos of the different centres in New Zealand, hearing about cultural differences, unique practices and equipment and reflecting on how

9 wonderful volunteers from the RBC Customer Service Centre in Winnipeg (and a few of their family members) came together on Saturday to donate 3 hours of their time to Discovery.  They shoveled, planted, and shoveled some more, until we all had just had enough :-).  We want to extend