The Good Shepherd Daycare is a Catholic daycare with an integrated preschool program that provides children from 10 months to 5 years of age with a fun but safe, emergent yet structured  environment where children can discover and learn about themselves and the world around them through play and guided social routines.

Our programs:

Our programs include a 3-5 group daycare with integrated preschool curriculum and an infant/toddler program with a basic thematic toddler curriculum. Both programs have a limited enrollment of 16 and 8, respectively, thereby providing all the benefits of small class sizes.

Mission Statement:

To establish a fun and safe teaching daycare where children will not only love to learn but learn to love.

Philosophy:

At The Good Shepherd Daycare, all staff are united in common philosophies which together they implement to ensure that the fullest standards of education are provided.

Our daycare is governed by the following philosophies:

  • We believe that each child is unique and has intrinsic strengths and talents that need to be discovered and reinforced
  • We believe that children are at their highest capacity for learning between birth to five years old
  • We believe that supervised play is an essential tool in the social, intellectual, emotional, physical and moral development of a child.
  • We believe in providing children with a harmonious environment and a balanced, well-rounded education
  • We believe that a positive environment produces positive children who will become positive influences in society
  • We believe that a daycare should not only build knowledge but also build character
  • We believe in a loving, God-centered daycare environment
  • We believe that the introduction of basic Christian moral values is essential in the development of children
  • We believe in creating a caring and loving environment for the children
  • We believe that self-esteem is the foundation that empowers children to learn anything they can and want to learn
  • We believe that our children are the VOICE of tomorrow and therefore we as a daycare must provide:

V – virtue

O – opportunites for learning in every area of development

I – interaction in its most dynamic form

C – choices and providing the children with skills to make the right ones

E – education that is well-rounded and well-balanced

The Good Shepherd Daycare is committed to bringing out the intrinstic strengths and talents of the children and create activities that stir their imagination and develop each child’s basic skills. Our promise is to look after the welfare of each child as if they were our very own.

The Good Shepherd Daycare is a nurturing, happy, peaceful and gentle environment. Our extremely wide open natural playground surrounds the children with joy and nature’s stillness. Come see for yourself!  Visit us at the lower level of the St. Clare’s Parish in Coquitlam, on the corner of Johnson and Delahaye Streets.