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Supply Fee
A $60 school supply fee will be charged for children starting in September. $30 of this must be paid upon registration and
$30 is collected at Orientation in September. This fee includes an HDCK
t-shirt. These fees are non-refundable after August 1st. For 4 year olds starting in January, the supply fee is $30.
Items Needed
Each child must bring a paint shirt labeled with his/her name, one outdoor
pair of footwear. Children bring their own snacks and lunches each day.
Children enrolled in the full-day program must bring a labeled toothbrush.
Field Trips
In the course of the Kindergarten year we will be taking the children on many field trips.
Places we have visited include Orwell Corner, a dairy farm, pottery
making, a honey bee farm, a pumpkin patach, the library, a fire hall,
basket making, apple picking, a nursing home, and ice skating. The children enjoy these outings very much, and we believe they are valuable experiences for pre-schoolers. Volunteer drivers are needed for the success of all our field trips and your assistance is greatly appreciated.
Special note: All siblings are welcome on these field trips, but are the full responsibility of their parents. Our insurance policy does not cover anyone other than the children registered at
HDCK.
Behaviour Management
At HDCK our Behaviour Management Policy is based on the belief that children benefit from meeting the reasonable expectations of compassionate staff. Our teachers endeavour to model the Christian principles of gentleness, love, respect, kindness, and self-control. These qualities generate trust and a sense of security that create freedom in the classroom setting. We see ourselves as supporting partners with the parents.
We strive to keep our communications with parents current.
The rules at HDCK are basic and easy to understand. Their purpose is to ensure safety and to build good manners and consideration for others. This contributes to an orderly, friendly, inviting and stimulating environment.
Our kindergarten prohibits any form of physical punishment. Our approach to Behaviour Management recognizes the child’s maturity level, adaptive growth, understanding, capabilities and individual needs/circumstances, and personality.
We believe that behaviour correction must always be carried out with love and patience. A child’s misbehaviour is never to result in withdrawal of respect or affection for the child. Our job as staff is to gently coach, train, and encourage each child to progress at his/her individual
 level of development.
We have a number of tools to achieve these goals. One important tool is encouragement and praise — that is, “catching people doing things right”. Another tool is one-on-one reasoning conducted in calm tones and preferably at the child’s eye level. Starting at the beginning of the year, we consciously build a repertoire of social skills and constructive problem solving in the children. These include learning to say “I’m sorry” when warranted and knowing how to renew friendly intent. Our experience has been that form follows function — a child’s character expands at the realization that an apology does not diminish self-respect but builds the trust of the whole group.
These in themselves are not enough to achieve positive behaviour at all times. Some other approaches we use are:
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Requiring a simple process to be redone correctly by the child (i.e. if a child forgets the “no running except outside or in the gym” rule, he/she is asked to go back to where he/she started running from and to travel to his/her destination again, by walking). Practice improves performance, habits and capabilities. |
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Redirection or relocation of an individual or group to a new activity. |
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The ‘3 sticks-in-the-jar method’ which is used in a very limited context for specific and persistent self-control problems. |
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Removal of a related (usually) privilege. |
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Removal of the child from a situation for a few minutes to allow him/her to gain self-control and/or perspective. When time-outs are used (one minute per year of child’s age) they are approached as a positive learning tool and not as a humiliation of the child. |
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As a very last resort, the parent may be called to take a child home if the situation has become so unmanageable as to be harmful to the child or the class as a whole. |
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Registration is now open for the 2008/2009 school year!
We are now accepting registrations for the 2008/2009 school year, for
both our 4 year old (pre-kindergarten) and 5 year old (kindergarten)
programs.
Please call or email us for a registration form or any inquiries you may have.
Our Parent
Handbook & Registration Form is now available online as well.
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