Since 1991 we have been providing a learning environment where children feel safe and secure within our care. We encourage children to experience challenge, take risks and explore their environment.

It is very gratifying, when on occasion, we meet up with parents of those children we have had the pleasure to have had in our care, just how many good things they credit to the positive start their children enjoyed at Summerside Kindergarten.

We know from experience, children are inclined to make significant intellectual progress in our fully integrated setting where care and education, are amalgamated and where the early learning and childcare practitioners have achieved higher qualifications.

All staff are required to be; actively involved in continuing professional development provided both in-service and through higher education. Currently, many of our staff, who have not already achieved degree-level qualifications, are studying to achieve these by distance learning while supported by our in-house mentors.

Practitioners work ceaselessly to provide improved outcomes in pre-school education and strive to reflect the holistic approach and vision of Curriculum for Excellence and by so doing ensure that all children are included and treated equally. We deliver a curriculum that provides an understanding of the value of diversity and those characteristics common in people.

Further, our practitioners possess, the skills necessary to offer Additional Support for Learning and the physical support and different communication needs of some children.

We are committed to seeking and taking cognisance of children’s views and that of their parents, in all decisions concerning their learning and development.