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UofA Nursery School
We see each child as a unique individual. Our goal is to provide opportunities for children to grow and develop in all areas of self: social, emotional, mental, physical, and creative.
We provide choices for children and plan activities for each child to be successful as well as challenged. A feeling of competency is encouraged. Indoor and outdoor learning centers offer social, language, math, science, music and creative arts experiences. Children explore, manipulate, predict, test, compare, discover, and evaluate.
The program we pursue is geared toward helping the child develop habits of observing, questioning, and listening. The program fosters personal awareness of feelings and promotes positive and pro-social behaviors. It gives children an awareness of their right to express those feelings by channeling them into acceptable means of expression. Children learn that they are for people and things, they do not always have to conform. An open-ended program like ours prepares children to utilize their intellectual and creative abilities in future learning tasks.
Positive guidance and adult modeling of these behaviors help children develop positive self esteem. Children will have fun while learning in a developmentally appropriate environment. The Nursery School is accredited by the National Association for Education of Young Children and is a member of the national organization.
The
Nursery School is open Monday through Thursday while University
classes are in session. The school is closed during University
vacations and semester examinations. Children attending the morning
session should arrive between 8:20 a.m. and 8:45 a.m. and depart
between 11:15 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Children enrolled in the afternoon
session should arrive between 12:20 p.m. and 12:45 p.m. and depart
between 3:15 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. If children must be absent from
the nursery school, their parents are asked to telephone the
Nursery School no later than 8:30 a.m. or 12:30 p.m. and tell
the teacher the reason and probable length of absence. Parents
are responsible for picking up their children by 11:30 a.m. or
by 3:30 p.m. because the staff often have teaching responsibilities
outside the nursery school after those hours.