The NBCC curriculum is designed to enhance children’s natural developmental progression. The curriculum is play-based and child-centered; teachers observe children to determine interests, curiosities, and developmental needs, letting curriculum ideas emerge. Children are offered an environment that fosters growth in all areas of development - body, mind and spirit. Play is the method by which children explore their world, construct knowledge and grow. Here at NBCC, we know how to play!

Staff/Child Ratios

Infants   1:3.3  Group Size: 10

Toddlers  1:6    Group Size: 12

3,4,5 yrs 1:9.5   Group Size 19

All classrooms are staffed with enough teachers to meet or exceed these ratios at all times. We do this to ensure your child’s safety, individual attention and opportunity to relate to more than one adult.

While daily schedules differ between programs and age levels, all rooms offer free-choice time with emphasis on large and small muscle activities, dramatic play, quiet centers for individual book exploration, literacy, art and music areas; outdoor or indoor large muscle play; large and small group times for stories, songs and building relationships. Our rooms are very busy spaces where learning happens as a natural consequence of being exposed to life.