Discovery Children's Centre

Jordana Kilgour attended Discovery Centre for many years until she became to old for our School-age program.  She has struggled with many medical challenges but has always been an overcomer, and we are so happy to here that she will be graduating from St. James Collegiate in 2016.  She and

The Centre will be closed at 2:00 pm on December 24th (Christmas Eve). We will be closed at 5:00 pm on December 31st (New Year’s Eve). These dates and times are also listed on the Events Calendar for future reference.

Discovery’s cash raffle is back this year. Raffle tickets will be handed out next week. We are asking every family to take a minimum of 1 book of tickets to sell. All ticket stubs and money collected must be returned to the office no later than 5:00 pm

Thanks to a connection made in Puerto Rico at the World Forum back in 2014 I, (Ron Blatz) was invited to travel to Toronto to address the first meeting of the Men in ECE Roundtable which was formed by the College of ECE’s in Ontario (the College).  All ECE’

A great big thank-you to all who so generously donated to the Christmas Bags for Romania campaign.  The money collected will help Doris & John Storey (Doris is a former staff) bless over 95 children in the orphanages, hospitals and villages near their home in Romania. Doris recently called and

Once again the Board of Directors of our Centre are organizing a campaign to help the Christmas Cheer Board make the season a bit better for those who are less fortunate than us.  By early next week you should see a wrapped cardboard box in the hallway by the office.

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend a gathering of “Forest School” enthusiasts in Victoria B.C. WOW!  Coming from Manitoba, where we have only one Forest School program (at Discovery) and traveling to B.C. where dozens of these programs exist, can be somewhat overwhelming.  If

Matt Bordush and I were asked to travel to Toronto to address a group of Early Childhood Educators (ECE’s) on the topic of Men in ECE. What a special day that was.  The next day we took advantage of some spare time and with all the boldness 2 prairie

Discovery Centre is closed one day each year for staff professional development.  In 2016 we have chosen to make this closure date March 24th.  Please be sure to mark this on your calendars as the entire centre will be closed for the whole day on March 24th.  This is the

The children were busy watching Mr. Buckley fixing the bridge on the hill today. They were asking him lots of questions about what he was doing and why. Mr. Buckley had filled the wheelbarrow up with some dirt and was putting it around the end of the bridge. Once the