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 drop...
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 2018....
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...
At Discovery we continue to take efforts to break the Canadian Child Care pattern of spending 95% of the time indoors and only 5% of the time outdoors. There are many benefits for children that motivate us to take these efforts and the attached Canadian document does a good job of explaining some of these. Please see...
As of May 30th (Tuesday) we will be vacating the parking lot east of the Preschool wing of our building. The window installers will be using the parking lot for their work vehicles for about 6 days so we have asked all of our staff in parking spots #1 –...
Last year on a Friday afternoon in July, two young ladies from China showed up at Discovery Centres front door. I was about to leave for the airport to pick up some relatives and so I had only 30 minutes to inquire about their visit and show them our Centre. While...
As a part of a multiple step process, Discovery Centre is discontinuing cash payments in the Flex room as of the end of May. All cash payments after that time will need to be made in the office during regular office hours (Mon- Fri 8:30am – 5:00pm). Our next step...