Branching into the future
New Playland Nursery School has been serving the Mississauga ‘city centre’ area for over 30 years. Established in 1989, slowly inching west, along Elm Drive, until settling into our permanent home, at 40 Elm Drive West, winter of 2024. We have witnessed the growth our Mississauga has taken to evolve into the bustling city it is now. Our location is in excellent proximity to major routes used by transit services. Miway, Go, Square one Transit Terminal, TTC Kipling Station.
Our first priority at New Playland Nursery School (NPNS), is to provide a safe, quality, healthy, stimulating environment and program. That emanates our core foundations of Peace, Love, Unity, Respect, Responsibility, Equity (PLURRE), in all practices. We strive to create an environment and culture that is welcoming for all. We follow a ‘no-tolerance’ for behaviours that resemble racism and or bullying, and or unequitable expression by adults entering our facility.
Drawing from the Ministry of Education’s guiding document, “How Does Learning Happen?“, our pedagogy is based on four foundations: belonging, engagement, expression and well-being. A child who belongs, feels engaged, can express oneself and feels good, is a child who can learn and develop optimally. We view children as competent, capable of complex thinking, curious, and rich in potential, and, therefore, take our cue from the children in forming our curriculum. This “emergent curriculum” is play-based, but includes set learning objectives.
Children develop skills in several different areas:
Gross motor: These are movements using the body’s large muscles and include sitting, standing, walking, running, keeping balance, and changing positions.
Fine motor: These skills use the small muscles in the hands and fingers. Fine motor skills include using hands to eat, draw, dress, play, and write. They develop over time and also involve hand-eye coordination.
Language: Speaking, using body language and gestures, and understanding what others say.
Social: Connecting and having relationships with others, cooperating, and responding to others’ feelings.
Cognitive: These are thinking skills—learning, understanding, problem-solving, reasoning, and remembering.
Our program is based on a hands-on, free choice approach to learning. The room is set up to cover many areas of interest (science, music, art, movement, dramatic play, fine motor / manipulative) and the children are free to choose an activity of interest to them. The monthly and weekly activity invitations programed is based on children’s interests. Our Centre has six classrooms to meet the ever growing and changing needs of the children.
Infants: 3 Months to 18 Months
Toddlers: 18 Months to 2.5 years old
Preschool: 2.5 to 6 years old
Get to know us by reading the New Playland Nursery School Orientation Handbook.
New Playland Nursery School has been a long time member of Peel Region’s Quality Initiative Program ‘Raising The Bar’.
Our program is run in partnership with our Resource Consultant provided by Peel Inclusive Resource Supports. Individual Program plans can be developed for children involved with PiRS, parents are encouraged to self-refer if they observe any red flags within their children. Support for children with special needs in child care – peelregion.ca
NPNS has applied and joined the equitable CWELCC program, a universal reduction of childcare fees to all families registered at our school, Age 1-6 years. This program is governed by The Ministry of Education and facilitated regionally.
New Playland accepts families accepted to participate in the Region of Peel Childcare Subsidy Program. https://peelregion.ca/children-parenting/child-care-subsidy
New Playland cannot accommodate students and or staff with Bean or Lentil restrictions or allergies. Families are encouraged to contact the office for more information.