Programs

Program Goals and Objectives

At Butterfly Learning Centre, we strive to:

• Ensure a safe and healthy environment
• Provide an environment which supports the child’s sense of well-being and competence as well as social and physical development.
• Provide reliable and flexible care to meet the needs of working parents.
• Provide consistent, nurturing, individual attention for the child.
• Promote positive family relationships.
• Provide case management for children with special needs, in co-operation with local agencies.
• Provide a supporting working environment for staff, with opportunities for professional growth.

Child Guidance Policy

At the Butterfly Learning Centre, we use a positive approach to guide children. Each situation and child is dealt with individually. Methods include:

• Redirection: Guiding a child into acceptable options when engaged in an unacceptable activity
• Natural or Logical Consequences: Attempting to make the child aware of the result of his/her actions.
• Limit Setting: Boundaries are developed by the teach for the children as a group and for individual children according to each situation.
• Modelling: Demonstration of appropriate ways of interacting.
• Offering Choices: Appropriate choices are outlined and children are encouraged to make decisions for themselves.
• Anticipating Trouble: Planning and preparing the environment.
• Ignoring: Some inappropriate behaviour can be ignore with more emphasis given to appropriate behaviour
• Positive Reinforcement: Showing genuine approval when children are engaged in positive activity.

Prohibited Practices

Any practice based on a negative control technique is not part of the Butterfly Learning Centre’s Child Management Techniques. Such prohibited practices include:

• Harsh discipline of any kind, such as
• Corporal punishment
• Deprivation of food or normal activity other than a brief time alone
• Confinement in a lockable space
• Verbal abuse including
• Humiliation
• Threatening
• Swearing
• Harassment
• Yelling
• Sarcastic comments
• Discussion of a child within any child’s hearing
• Any type of behaviour that is sexually abusive
• Lack of supervision including
• Diverted attention for frequent or extended periods
• Leaving children unsupervised