Our Mission and Philosophy

At PuddleDucks Preschool, we are committed to developing your child’s love for learning and a sense of purpose in life. We do this by cultivating positive growth in your child’s Character, Confidence, Competence and Compassion. Each of these skills build upon each other and help children better understand themselves and the world around them. At PuddleDucks, we strongly believe in creating an environment which provides children a SAFE place to explore, create, make mistakes, try something difficult, try something new, ask questions, and be a better friend. Essentially, we want to create a place where all of our students can “become” who  they are meant to be in this world.

At PuddleDucks we are inspired by the Reggio Emilia philosophy. This means that themes are developed to tap into children’s interests and their natural curiosity about the world around them. It also means  that our themes build on basic skills such as numerical, early literacy, fine motor, gross motor, problem solving, and attention span. Through  collaborative play, learning alongside each other, teacher-led conflict resolution, and emotional awareness, we help your duckling develop those ever-important social-emotional skills. 

Being ‘inspired by’ Reggio also means that we do not limit our students’ learning style to one governing philosophy. Instead, we see each child as a unique learner and therefore we've chosen to pull what we believe are the best qualities from a number of other educational pedagogies such as Montessori, and the Waldorf  teaching method.