Our Daycare

Ages 3 to 5

❋ We are now accepting names for our 2026 waitlist ❋
To add your child, please email summerlandelc@gmail.com with their name and year of birth.
 
We look forward to welcoming your family to our learning community.
At Summerland Early Learning Centre (SELC), we believe children are naturally curious and active participants in their own learning. Our educators support this curiosity by creating engaging environments and thoughtfully designed experiences that guide learning through discovery. Learning is a journey of inquiry, connecting children to their surroundings, their peers, and the world around them.

Our program follows a flexible preschool curriculum that encourages holistic development through play. Children explore a wide range of areas including creative arts, drama, literacy, numeracy, social and emotional skills, cultural awareness, environmental studies, science, construction, music, and physical literacy. Through these hands-on experiences, children actively construct their own understanding while developing physically, intellectually, creatively, emotionally, socially, and linguistically.

The Early Learning Program operates daily from 7:30 am – 5:00 pm (when fully staffed) and is open year-round, except for summer and winter breaks, statutory holidays, and Easter Monday.

For more details, please contact the Summerland Montessori School Office to request a copy of our Information Handbook. Please note that while we share a Board of Directors and property with Summerland Montessori School, we do not offer a Montessori curriculum.

As a licensed facility, we participate in the Ministry of Children and Family Development’s Fee Reduction Initiative. Families may also apply to the Affordable Child Care Benefit program to determine eligibility for additional child care subsidies.

  • “The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.”

    Maria Montessori

  • “Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before.”

    Loris Malaguzzi

  • “The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’”

    Maria Montessori

  • “Play is the highest form of research.”

    Albert Einstein