Natalie Kawaja ECEA
My name is Natalie and I am an ECE assistant
Savanna Helsdon ECEA
My name is Savanna and I am an ECE student
Janel Frechette
My name is Janel and I am a child care worker
Amelia Mellis
My name is Amelia and I am a student volunteer
Jessica Bryant ECEA
My name is Jessica and I am a child care assistant
Sheila Craig
My name is Sheila and I am a director and former school age assistant.
Our Team
Little Scholars Child Care is a Not For Profit Society managed by founder Sherri-Lynn Hamilton. Check the profiles below for a closer look at our incredible team.
Sherri-Lynn Hamilton ECE IT
My name is Sherri and I am the founding manager of Little Scholars Child Care.
I love to create enthusiastic learning environments that facilitate happy fun filled activities for the children.
I have 27 years experience teaching in kindergarten, school-age, pre-school and infant toddler programs. Since opening Little Scholars in 1997 I have had plenty of opportunities to use and improve communication skills, analytical and problem solving skills, supervisory skills, stress managment skills, teaching skills, listening skills and of course the skill of working with and loving the children and their families.
I received my Early Childhood Education certificate at Northern Lights University, my Infant Toddler certificate at Capilano University and my Licence to Practice in the year 2000.
My husband, William and I now have a quiet home as our two sons have grown and now have families of their own. Our oldest son is married with three children and our younger son is married with two children. I love children and I feel so blessed to be still working with the little ones at our child care.
I have to say at Little Scholars we have a great group of fully qualified and caring teachers. This in turn creates a great learning environment for the wonderful children entrusted in our care.
Darlene Streicker
My name is Darlene and I run the School Age Program with my team, Sheila, Janel, and Kimoko.
I have been a worker at Little Scholars for 12 years. I am presently managing the After-school program at Little Scholars Child Care.
I love working with children of all ages. My husband, Steve, and I have 5 children of our own - ages 20 to 28. We also have 3 precious grandchildren.
Some of my interests are music, antiques, and coin collecting.
Some of my favourite activities are canoeing, swimming, horseback riding, and doing puzzles.
My experience at Little Scholars is filled with special memories shared with special people, and I look forward to more of the same in the time to come.!!
Carolyn Fairholm ECE Montessori
My name is Carolyn and I work with the 3-5 program. I received my ECE Licence to practice from North West Baptist College on the Trinity Western Campus in Langley BC in 1997. I received my Montessori teaching certificate in 2001. I was the director of a Montessori school for five years. My husband Dan and I have four children ranging from 6-11 years of age. I also have experience with special needs. I feel very blessed to be able to be working at Little Scholars Day Care as I get to work in a happy supportive environment that allows me to work with children to help them get a good education and a great start in life .
Thanks
Carolyn
We offer part time and full time programs, available for all age groups.
Our centre is dedicated to working with children and families to best meet the needs of your child.
We are licensed
Little Scholars Child Care is fully licensed and our standards exceed licensing requirements. The centre is routinely inspected by the Child Care Licensing Department, and the Fire Department. We work closely with the Language, Occupational and Physiotherapists, as well as Resource workers, Dental hygienist and Librarians.
Our Location
Our location is surrounded by 5 acres of majestic west coast rain forest. Our buildings and play yards are professionally designed and built to accommodate busy infants, toddlers, preschoolers and school age children. Our facility, toys, outdoor playgrounds and indoor spaces are all custom-built to meet the development needs of your child.
- Our 2’s and 3’s rooms offers free play activities related to simple math, science and language concepts. Other activities include circle time, stories, songs and outside play.
- Our 4’s and 5's room builds on math, and science using Pre-K activities in a wonderful, supportive responsive, enlivening place that imparts language and literacy development as well..
- Our 6's to 12's room is designed to provide safe and creative activities for young people to take part in games, art, science experiments and so much more.
- Our facility also includes three different outdoor play yards, two large multipurpose rooms and a library.
- Soon coming to Little Scholars an Infant Centre which accommodates young children ages 0-2 and allows children to explore through play, stories and painting.
Our Philosophy
Our philosophy of care focuses on all aspects of growth. We strongly believe that children learn best through:
- Active exploration
- Experimentation
- Problem solving
Little Scholars Child Care is a Christian centre that provides a loving, understanding, comfortable, safe and nurturing environment where children will be stimulated and encouraged to develop social, physical, emotional and intellectual skills.