:: Ms. Miriam's Nursery School & Play Centre Ltd. ::

Our Staff

The Nursery School is set up to bring the very best in early learning experiences to each and every child. In order to do this it is important to have highly skilled staff to implement the programs and to nurture the children. While the environment is intended to be very exciting and enriching it is vitally important that every child relates on a very personal level to one or two teachers who will take full responsibility for his/her welfare while in our care. Therefore each child is assigned to a homeroom group which they stay with each session. Every Home Room has one teacher and one assistant who remain with your child and take this group, on a timetable, to the various rooms of interest in the school.

Every school also needs support staff to make sure programs are up and running, fees are recorded, supplies bought, phone is answered, front door monitored etc.

While all of our staff are unique and come to this centre with a wide variety of skills and educational backgrounds, all must go through the same mandatory screening procedures. Every person who would be on site and have any kind of contact, no matter how casual, with a child, has gone through these procedures.

1. Police Reference Check
2. Medical, Tuberculosis and Immunization Check
3. Professional Qualification Check
4. Hiring Interviews with Supervisor
5. Employment Reference Check
6. Sign Behaviour Management Policy (annually)
7. Sign Policy and Procedure Manual (annually) for yearly contract staff
8. Formal Written Performance Evaluation (annually) for yearly contract staff
9. Formal Written Performance Evaluation (after 4 months) for new probationary staff

*** In every Home Room group there is at least one staff with recent CPR and First Aid Training.

Home Room Staff

Ms. Carolina - Home Room Teacher

In 1997, Carolina graduated from Seneca College with a diploma in Early Childhood Education with high honours. For the past decade, she has been raising a family while volunteering, supply teaching, and being a Home Daycare Provider.

Ms. Ramona D. - Home Room Teacher

She is a recent graduate from Mothercraft's Early Childhood Education Program. She is eager to take on her newly chosen career after 15 years as an Administrative Assistant.

Ms. Pushpa J. - Home Room Teacher

Registered Early Childhood Educator since 2005, Pushpa worked here as a teaching assistant after coming from a Montessori background in her native Sri Lanka. In 2009, she went to Mothercraft to receive her diploma in Early Childhood Education. We welcome her back as a Home Room Teacher.

Ms. Toula - Assistant

Ms. Toula has had 5+ years experience working with children of various ages. She studied at George Brown College in the Social Service Program, Literacy Worker.

Ms. Danielle T. - Assistant

As a former student of this Nursery School, Danielle is pleased to join our staff this school year. She has had recent experience working with children with mental and physical exceptionalities.

Specialty Staff

Coach Mike - (Sportplay) - Afternoons

Mike P. is the founder of Sportplay and has spent many years working with children in athletic, educational and social service settings. His sport background includes coaching track and field at the local, provincial and national levels. He organized and coached numerous exchange games including the Canusa and International Children's Games.

Administrative Staff

Ms. Miriam (Supervisor and Owner)
E-mail: miriam at msmiriams dot ca (Replace at with @ and dot with .)

She is a graduate of Lakeshore Teachers College Toronto (1970). Also a graduate in Early Childhood Education from Centennial College where she served on the Alumni Board of Directors for several years. She also took courses at Ryerson about children with Special Needs. Miriam has been teaching and designing fun and educational programming for preschoolers for the last 30+ years. She and her husband Felix have two children.

Mr. Felix (Office Manager)

He is a native of the island of Malta who came to Canada in 1973. He studied Engineering at Ryerson and worked as a machinist until the plant closed. He joined the Nursery School officially in 1998 even though he had been helping with the administration since its inception in 1979. He enjoys the fun environment of the Nursery School while he handles the financial side of the business.

Student Teachers

Each semester the Nursery School offers its services to students from the Board of Education, Community Colleges, and Universities who are training to become Early Childhood Educators. These students are supervised by our Home Room Teachers and are under the direction of their program advisor from their college. All student teachers undergo the police check, provide immunization clearance and sign our behaviour management policy before they begin their practice teaching assignments here.

Volunteers

Helping hands are always needed and appreciated in our Nursery School classes. All volunteers must sign our behaviour management policy, submit to a police check and provide up to date immunization information. Volunteers are supervised by Home Room staff.

Supply Staff

Nursery Support and sentient are agencies which supply Registered Early Childhood Education Teachers and Assistants to nursery schools and daycare centres. Occasionally when we are short staffed, we call an agency to supply us with a teacher either on a daily basis or for a longer period of time. All of these supply teachers have appropriate qualifications, police checks and up to date immunization.

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