Child Care

Goderich Municipal Child Care Centre

376 Cambridge Street

Goderich, Ontario, N7A 2Z1

519-524-7441

Director:  Bonnie Hastings

Supervisor: Cindy Austin

Helpful Documents:  

• Parent Handbook (updated March 2021)
• GMCC Policies
• Covid19 Parent Handbook (updated March 2021)
• Registration Package
• Decision Tool for Parents

Our programming is guided by How Does Learning Happen? Ontario's Pedagogy for the Early Years Document (2014).

Goderich Municipal Child Care Centre welcomes your child and family to a warm, caring, enthusiastic and respectful atmosphere.  Our Educators provide a quality learning environment for all children with daily opportunities to extend individual learning needs based on their natural curiosity, current interests and real life experiences. We provide our children with many play based, hands-on learning opportunities to keep children involved and creatively thinking.  Active investigation combined with reasonable risk taking opportunities allow children to be curious, explore the environment, and make strong connections to the world around them. This encourages children to build positive relationships, fosters problem solving skills, and increases the ability for positive self-expression with peers.

We promote a diverse and inclusive environment that provides children with the opportunity for personal growth, individual success, and a sense of pride in their accomplishments. There is ongoing communication with the families to establish individual learning goals and provide support for personal development. We also have In-Centre supports from the following Service Agencies to help with specialized programming.

Growing Together Early Learning Resource Program

Small Talk (Speech and Language)

Thames Valley Children's Centre (Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy)

Our program includes to following to promote our philosophy:

• Outdoor play
• Imagine, Create and Explore (I.C.E.) within the classroom or gym
• Story Time
• Circle Time
• Dramatic Play
• Nutritious snacks
• Hot Meals
• Rest Periods

Programs

Infants: 3 months- 18 months

Toddler: 18 months- 2 ½ years

Preschool: 2 ½ years- 5 years

Hours of Operation: 7:30 am to 5:30 pm

 Full and Half Day Care is available

Half Day AM with Lunch: 7:30am -12:30pm

 Half Day PM with Lunch: 12:00pm -5:00pm

Huron County has a centralized on-line Child Care waitlist available (OneHSN-Huron) Registration for the GMCCC waitlist is done through this application webpage  https://onehsn.com/huron  There will be no cost associated with placing a child on this waitlist or having them removed.  Please follow up with the Child Care Centre to check waitlist/availability at 519-524-7441

Goderich EarlyON Child and Family Centre 

Is hosting virtual programs.  See calendar below

Weekly Calendar - July 12 - 16, 2021

Weekly Calendar - July 19 - 23, 2021

Life With A New Baby - July 2021

(located on the south side of Goderich Public School - 125 Blake St. E. (entrance off of Bennett Street)

We are currently offering a variety of virtual programs for families/caregivers with children aged 0 – 6 years of age. We have Baby Time, Toddler Talk and Tunes, Game ON 3 year-olds, and Songs & Story time for All ages.  There are also some virtual pop up special programs.  We use the platform of Zoom to deliver our programming (we provide instructions on how to use Zoom)  and hope to see each of you soon!  To learn more please visit Facebook, and like/follow our Huron EarlyON page for all program details and times!  If you have any questions about our programs, resources, or parenting questions please call us at 519-524-9999 or email kkyle@goderich.ca