Welcome to the Banff Child Care Centre
Serving families with early education and child care for over 40 years. We are an accredited, non-profit society whose mission is to serve our community. We appreciate generous support in Banff and many collaborations within the Bow Valley that enable us to offer creative and fun early education backed by a strong organization.
Our mission is to work with families and our community to provide quality child care and opportunities for personal growth in a nurturing atmosphere of activity and fun!
The Banff Child Care Centre was among the first child care programs accredited by the province of Alberta.
Accreditation is a rigorous quality process of continuously maintaining very high standards. We are also regularly inspected by Alberta Human Services for licensing standards and Alberta Health for health and safety quality assurance.
We offer programming Monday – Friday 7:30 AM – 6:00 PM in six developmentally appropriate age group rooms and two safe and natural outdoor place spaces.
Child Care to Fit Your Family
The Day Care Society of Banff has Puzzles under its umbrella.
Puzzles was one of the first 22 Alberta Early Learning and Child Care sites in the Province of Alberta. We are an accredited program serving families of the Bow Valley with children 1 through 5 years of age. Accreditation is a rigorous quality process of continuously maintaining very high standards. We are also regularly inspected by Alberta Children’s Services for licensing standards and Alberta Health for health and safety quality assurance.
Puzzles provides a warm, nurturing environment for children’s discovery and development. We implement the Alberta Early Childhood Framework in guiding our program to fit the needs and interests of our children. The FLIGHT framework “frames curriculum meaning making that highlights the relationships and curriculum decision shaping responsive practices in early learning and child care communities” (FLIGHT, pg.12, 2014) https://flightframework.ca/
Guiding Principles:
Puzzles recognizes the image of a child as a ‘Mighty Learner’. Our responsive environment is inclusive and captures all children’s dispositions to learn. Puzzles is a place of vitality, providing access, support and participation. A practice of relationships with family, community, and educators makes meaning for our early learning citizens.
Puzzles is partnered with Grit-ASaP;
An Inclusive Framework Supporting Social and Emotional Learning in the Early years using the The Pyramid Model
The Pyramid model is a framework that ensures nurturing, responsive relationships and quality inclusive environments for all children and families. https://gritasap.ca/
Find Us At:
102 Spray Ave, P.O. Box 1454,
Banff, Alberta, T1L 1B4
403-763-1323
puzzles@telus.net
My son says he will only eat eggs at school and that if I learn how to make them like they do, he would eat them at home! Do you have a recipe to share?Heather P
We love the way you look at each child as an individual and appreciate their strengths! Thank you to all your staff for making great experiences for our children!Laura M.
Thank you for all the love and care! We are moving out of town and will miss you all immensely!”
“Living in Banff National Park, we are so pleased that you engage the children in so much outdoor play and exercise during their time with you. We like that they run and play as we did when we were kids!”
Your yummy and nutritious food program really takes the stress off our family in the evenings. I know that my child has eaten a healthy lunch and two great snacks during the day and that if we have a simpler dinner, she will have had a very healthy day!Natasha W.
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