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2024-2025 Daycare Early Bird Re-Enrollment Information
By scrolling below, you will find Daycare information which includes:
1. Registration / Re-Enrollment Contract Links
2.Parent Introduction Early Bird Registration Letter
3.Early Bird Registration Deadlines
4.Early Bird Registration Discounts
5. Early Bird Registration Prizes
6. 2025-2026 Highlights
7. RSVP for our Kindergarten Information Session
Kindergarten RSVP Open House
Kindergarten Information Sessions In recognizing that the transition from Preschool to Kindergarten is an important milestone for students and families, we would like to take this opportunity to provide our Preschool families with information regarding our Kindergarten program at St-Laurent Academy.
Learn more about our hands on, experiential learning programs. Bilingual French Classroom, Daily Physical Education, Award Winning Science Program and Much More!
Session # 1 - November 8 - Kindergarten - 11:00am - 2:00pm (In Person)
Session # 2 - November 19 - Kindergarten - 4:30pm - 5:15pm (Virtual)
Daycare Early Bird Registration Information Below and 2025-2026 Highlights
Early Bird Registration for the
2025-2026 School Year
Dear Daycare Families,
As we find ourselves fully immersed in the 2024-2025 school year, our commitment remains fixed on your children’s success and fostering a vibrant daycare and school community. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to every family for your dedication to our daycare and school. It is a testament to your involvement that the St-Laurent Academy community has never been stronger.
St-Laurent Academy's daycare enrollment has reached unprecedented levels with a waiting list of approximately 80 families. We cannot thank you enough! Although our school and daycare continues to grow, our core principles and objectives remain the same: To nurture the academic aspirations and individual needs of every student through an enriching, supportive, and engaging curriculum while ensuring we continue to embrace a strong level of communication with our families and hold ourselves accountable for each student's academic and social success. Your child’s success is our success!
To reflect our continued appreciation of our current families, we are delighted to offer you the opportunity to take advantage of our Early Bird Returning Student Re-Enrollment for the upcoming school year, 2025-2026.
Our Early Bird Re-Enrollments will be exclusively available from October 21st, 2024 to December 17th, 2024. During this period, all spaces for the 2025-2026 academic year will be reserved for existing families. There are a number of prizes and giveaways for which our families are eligible throughout our early bird re-enrollment period. It is worth noting that the Early Bird prizes and giveaways provided between October 21st, 2024 to December 17th, 2024, collectively amount to over $150,000 worth of prizes available in our Early Bird 20 Day of Prizes Draw. We have also provided flexible payment options and methods which include pre-authorized debit and credit (VISA, M/C and now AMEX).
Included with your re-enrollment packages, you will find a few gifts in expressing our gratitude! These gifts include: St-Laurent Academy pens, calendar magnets, key lanyards, mugs, tumblers, scarfs, tote bags and St-Laurent Academy pins!
As we are currently operating at maximum capacity, any spaces still available after December 17th, 2024 will be open to our waiting list and followed by the public. Families seeking enrollment after December 17th, 2024 for the 2025-2026 school year may do so based on availability and will not be eligible for the Early Bird incentives. Please be reminded that the above incentives are also applicable to new siblings joining St-Laurent Academy and their registrartion takes priority over our waiting list and public enrollments during the Early Bird Registrations. We deeply appreciate your choice of St-Laurent Academy for your family’s educational needs. As a daycare, we are genuinely committed to working alongside you to ensure that every child receives the support required to reach their full potential.
To ensure we continue offering the CWELCC program and align with other childcare programs in Ontario, we are now providing full-year registration while maintaining our daily rates and offering flexible payment options and methods. Although St-Laurent Academy's programs and approach remain unique, our calendar year registration will be similar to that of other centers under the CWELCC program. By meeting the annual disclosure standards set by CWELCC, we will align more closely with other programs and simplify the administration process for our team.
Thank you once again for being an integral part of our thriving daycare community and looking forward to having you continue your academic journey with us for the school year 2025-2026 school year!
Warm Regards,
Andrea Crupi
Assistant Director & Admissions
St-Laurent Academy Inc.
[email protected]
Advantages and Discounts for 2025-2026 Daycare & Junior Kindergarten
Early Bird Registrations will receive the following advantages, if registrations are received by December 17th, 2024, 4PM.
Advantages and Discounts for Daycare Families Include:
1. St-Laurent Academy has and will continue to partner with the Government of Canada in the CWELCC program for the 2025-2026 school year. At this time, regular daycare fees have been frozen and have been reduced by 52.75%.
2. Daycare spaces will be secured for 2025-2026 School Year, spaces to the public and waitlist families will open on a first come first serve basis as of December 18th, 2024.
3. Re-Enrollment discounts are applicable on all daycare enrollment contracts under the CWELCC at 52.75% fee reduction.
4. Flexible payment options and payment method- There are two payment options available:
- Advanced Payment Option (Pre-Authorized Debit or Credit)
- Monthly Payment Option (Pre-Authorized Debit and Credit for first two payments)
All Daycare Early Bird Registration received by November 27th, 4PM will receive the above applicable discounts and in addition will also be entered in our Early Bird 20 days of prize draws, which include:
- 1 free tuition (up to $25,000)
- Additional tuition discounts ($1K, 2K, 3K, 5K)
- Amazon Gift Cards
- Chapters Gift Cards
- Ipads, & MacBook Airs
Prize draws will take place between November 27-December 17.
Advantages and Discounts for JK - Grade 12 Families Include:
1. Secured Space: Student spaces will be secured for 2025-2026 School Year for registrations received by December 17, 2024. Any remaining spaces will be open on a first serve basis as of December 18th, 2024 including spaces to students on the waitlist or to the public.
2. Re-Enrollment discount on JK-Gr. 12 re-enrollment contracts: 4 flexible payment options, and payment methods including Pre-Authorized Debit and Credit (Visa, MC and now AMEX)
- Advanced Payment Option:
SAVE $2000-$3000
- Monthly Payment Option:
SAVE $1500
3. Sibling Discounts JK-Gr.12 applicable from JK-Gr.12 students:
- Two students per family: $500 off each student
- Three students per family: $750 off each student
- Four plus students per family: $1000 off each student’s full year tuition
4. Student Transportation Discount from JK-Gr. 12:
$1200-1500 for the academic year ($1400 discount)
5. Optional Program Discounts for JK - Grade 12:
As an early bird special, advanced payment options will be applied for optional programs. Discounts between $150 - $700 are available depending on your advanced payment selection.
Please be reminded that the above giveaways and advantages are also applicable to new siblings joining St-Laurent Academy for the full school year. Prior to the acceptance of a new sibling registering at the school, a virtual meeting along with supporting documents may be required. Please contact us for more information.
How to Secure Your Space for 2025-2026 Daycare & JK
Step 1
Submit Your Online Contract by completing the links provided above. Alternatively, complete the Student Re-Enrollment Contract sent home.
Note: When completing either contact in the payment section you have the option to check a box to use a credit card or pre-authorized information that you might have on your account to make your submission easier.
Step 2
Early Bird Contract Submission Due Dates (Hard Copy or Electronic Submissions):
1st Registration Deadline: Wednesday, November 27th, 2024, 4:00pm
- If your contract is received by this date, you will be entered in our St-Laurent Academy Early Bird 20 days of prizes draw, your child’s space will be secured and all early-bird advantages and incentives will apply.
or
2nd Registration Deadline: Tuesday, December 17th, 2024, 4:00pm
- If your contract is received by this date, your child’s space will be secured and all early-bird advantages and incentives will apply.
2025-2026 Highlights
Our Community
We will continue to build our Daycare and School Community with year round events including but not limited to: Art Show, Open House and Book Fair, Halloween Events, Remembrance Day Activities, Holiday Shows, School Social, Year End Events and so much more!
Language
St-Laurent Academy Early Childhood Education programs will continue to offer daily bilingual Infant, Toddler and Preschool Programs. St-Laurent Academy will offer a French Preschool Program as well.
Menus
In house meals will be provided to our daycare children with two snacks and a lunch during the regular school day. An afternoon snack during post care will be provided for children registered. As in the past, we have ensured that our menu follows Daycare Licensing requirements, which includes the Canada’s Food Guide to Healthy Living. Our menu has also been reviewed and approved by a certified nutritionist.
Parent / Educator Meetings
During our parent teacher meetings, parents are invited into the school to meet with your child's daycare educator. During these meetings we will discuss your child's transition and overall support and care in the daycare.
Prior to children moving from one program to the next, we ensure parents are introduced and have the opportunity to meet educators in supporting a smooth transition. These transitions include infant to toddler or toddler to preschool and will take place over a two week period.
Reporting Periods
As each child's milestones are unique, and in further enhancing our communications with our families we will distribute progress reports twice per year (November, and March) for Daycare children. Reports will include but are not limited to: Fine Motor Skills, Gross Motor Skills, Physical Education, Emotional and Social Skills, Listening and Speaking Skills, Language Skills, Spatial Concepts.
Our Focus
St-Laurent Academy’s Early Childhood Education program prides itself on continuing to offer a differentiated curriculum to accommodate many different learning styles. We respect that every child is individually special and comes from a unique background, and as a result we make it a point to accommodate for diversity in the form of an inclusive environment. We provide equal and engaging opportunities for all and encourage success through not only recreation, but also structured hands-on learning activities.
Health
The Health and Safety of our School Community remains our top priority. Daily maintenance, disinfection and maintaining a clean filtration system in our building is important and will be assessed and adjusted throughout each year. The daily routines of students which include hand washing routines and keeping our environment clean is equally important. We continue to keep close communications with Ottawa Public Health and the Ministry of Education and will update our policies and resources as required in ensuring we are aOur administration team, teachers and school nurse ensure that we communicate in regards to student health and safety and at a minimum require a 24 hour symptom free period during any illness.
Daily PhysEd and Field Trips
Healthy Active Living is our goal. As such we want to ensure all our children are exposed to daily outdoor play to ensure continual growth with their gross and fine motor skills while having fun during Phys. Ed at the same time. Our Preschool children will also be engaged in field trips including museums, Flying Squirrel and Farm visits for our preschool students.
Daily Connect
Communication
The Daily Connect app is used by our Educators to post updates of your child which will include photos, videos, activities, meals and more! The daycare menus, daycare calendar and events will be uploaded for the year in August 2025 and are available for viewing through the app. If you have any questions or are unable to login to Daily Connect, please reach out to the Daycare Supervisor for assistance.
Email Communication
Messages and reminders are e-mailed to our Daycare families from our Daycare Supervisor. Monthly newsletter communication will be shared for further updates regarding Daycare events, activities, PD Days etc. Should you wish to send communication, please email Ms. Umurungi at [email protected].
Canada Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement
As you may know, Ontario has secured a deal with the federal government on a national child care plan for Ontario families. Families will see financial relief through reduced average parent fees. St-Laurent Academy has and will continue to partner with the Government of Canada in the CWELCC program for the 2025-2026 school year. At this time, regular daycare fees have been frozen and have been reduced by 52.75%. For more information, please click here.