Potential
Providing the opportunity to fulfill the human potential of all children regardless of race, creed, gender, color, sex, cultural heritage, political beliefs, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, religion or national origin.
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Play
The work of the child is play, and through play experiences children learn. Provision of role models who adhere to their philosophy should be an integral part of the child's experience.
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Responsibility
Developing responsibility for one's own actions in a gentle but firm and consistent manner. Guidance should be given in a positive and accepting verbal manner. All persons should be respected equally, whether adult or child.
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Unique
Each child is an individual with unique and valuable human characteristics, that each child should be encouraged to progress at his or her own rate, and that excessive pressure to achieve is harmful to the child.
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Curriculum Philosophy"Play is at the heart of the early childhood program. It is the center of curriculum, the way children develop and express their understanding of the world, the window into the lives of the children and it provides an avenue for children to practice emerging skills and confirm emerging concepts."
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CHILDREN ENROLLED IN PROGRAMS
FAMILY HOME AND CENTER-BASED PROGRAM SITES
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What Programs Are Offered at Webster Square Day Care Center?Webster Square Day Care Center provides full-day, full-time center-based group and family day care programs.
Children between the ages of two years nine months and seven years are eligible. Programs are run five days per week, fifty-two weeks per year. |
Meeting Your Child's NeedsMeeting of the children's needs is ensured by close cooperation between all parties involved in working with your child. Each child is treated as the unique individual that he/she is and the program is flexible to corresponding needs.
Both programs are supplemented by a full nutrition program, health education, staff training, social services, and identification and remediation of learning delays, physical and developmental delays and disabilities. Therapeutic programs for children may include speech therapy, physical therapy, play therapy, or social service referrals. Services are by no means limited to these. |
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Webster Square Day Care Center, Inc. is a private non-for-profit corporation that provides comprehensive quality services to children and families in the Worcester area. From its small beginnings, Webster Square Day Care Center, Inc. has grown to include both a center-based and a family day care component; both publicly and privately funded. The center-based program, still in its original location in the Aldersgate United Methodist Church, provides full-day, full-time group care for sixty-one children, ages two years nine months through age seven. |