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Jackman Community Daycare
November 2025

A Message from our Executive Director

October marked Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day, a time to recognize and celebrate the incredible work of our educators. This year’s theme — Care — beautifully reflects the heart of what our team does each day. At Jackman Community Daycare, care is shown not only through the meaningful interactions with children but also in the thoughtful ways educators support one another and our families.

To show our appreciation, the daycare gifted cozy blankets and shared a delicious Thai lunch together — a small token of thanks for a team that gives so much of themselves every day. I want to take this opportunity to once again express my gratitude for our dedicated educators. Their creativity, compassion, and professionalism are what make our programs so special.

The educators are excited to launch Children Clubs! Throughout November and December, educators in our School Age rooms will be planning and designing clubs for children to sign up for in January.

Children in Grades 3–6 will have the opportunity to join the clubs led by educators.
Children in Rooms 105, 207, and Grade 1/2 split classes will also be developing clubs tailored for their own age groups.

We look forward to the learning, fun and connection these new clubs will inspire.

~ Kayla Myles

November 14th PA Day

The daycare will be open 7:30am-6:00pm on Friday November 14th offering full day care for our daycare children. Our nursery school program will be closed. Morning drop off is between 7:30am-9:00am. Afternoon pick up is between 4:00pm-6:00pm, the school doors will locked throughout the day. Please let the room staff know if your child will not be coming to daycare on Friday November 14th.

Mark your Calendar for the Holidays

Each year the Daycare closes for approximately a week during the winter holidays. The daycare will be open on Monday December 22 and Tuesday December 23 providing full day care from 7:30am-6:00pm. Our Nursery School will be closed. A reminder that full day fees for grades 1-6 apply for December 22 & 23.

The daycare will be closed from Wednesday December 24, 2025 to Friday January 2, 2026. We will reopen Monday January 5, 2026.

Building Entry

We request that JK-Grade 6 families arriving to the school between 8:50am-3:15pm use the school buzzer, under the red arrow, for entry into the building. Preschool and nursery school families are to use the daycare buzzer at all times. Thank you for your cooperation.

Thank you for your co-operation.

Lice Policy
Lice is a common occurrence in group settings involving children. To minimize the spread of head lice and maintain a healthy environment for all children, we ask families to notify the daycare if you find head lice on your child. We will conduct a screening of all children in the daycare room.
If live lice or nits are found on a child while at daycare, families will be notified to pick up. Children can return once treatment has been administered and following conditions met:

The child must be free of live lice.
Fewer than five (5) nits must be present.
Parents/guardians must arrange for a designated daycare educator to perform a head check prior to the child re-entering the program.

Our complete head lice policy can be found on our website.

Picking Up from Daycare

For the safety of the children, please notify the teachers when you have arrived to pick up your child. This is particularly important when picking up your child from outside of the school.

Please remember that for pick ups, under no circumstances will the daycare release your child to someone with just a phone call if prior written consent has not been given.

Withdrawing from Daycare
Parents or guardians are required to provide written notice of withdrawal for their child from Jackman Community Daycare no less than 30 days in advance. This notice should be submitted to the daycare supervisor, Gwen Pitteway. Our full withdraw policy can be found on our website.

Stay Home if you are Sick
Cold and flu season is here. Anyone who is feeling sick or has any new or worsening symptoms of illness should stay home until their symptoms are improving and seek assessment from their health care provider if needed. For the health and safety of all children and staff in the daycare, parents are asked to follow our policies, exercise good judgment and keep children at home while ill.

If your child will not be coming to daycare please remember to call and leave a message with your daycare room prior to 2:00pm. Please do not email the daycare office as emails may not be received in time. Please review our Dealing with Illness policy.

2026 Daycare Fees

The Board of Directors has completed a review of the daycare's current and future financial context for 2026. We are pleased to announce that daycare room fees will remain constant and will not increase for the year 2026. This decision reflects our commitment to providing quality care while maintaining affordability for families.

Current fees can be found here.

Daycare fees are charged for all days regardless of a child's attendance. Fees are not adjusted for statutory holidays, unplanned program closings, student absences or family vacations.

Questions regarding our fees can be sent to our Executive Director, Kayla Myles at director@jackmandaycare.ca

Daycare Invoices 2026

Invoices for January-June 2026, will be entered into our payment system TUIO by December 10th (January to August for Preschool and JK which operate through the summer).

Once the 2026 program enrollment notification has been received, users have the opportunity to log in to view the new invoices and confirm the payment method to be used. This is done via the Enrollments Tab.

TUIO profile holders authorize Jackman Community Daycare to link the most recent payment method used, on their behalf, to the new 2026 invoices if a payment method has not been confirmed by December 22, 2025.

If you have any questions, please email Christine at admin@jackmandaycare.ca

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