The program and teachers are outstanding. Lindsey and Tanis have thoughtfully created a friendly, nurturing, and safe environment for students to explore their own interests, while facilitating learning through play. This has made our daughter’s preschool experience educational, as well as fun. The teachers meet the unique needs of each student. Their love and passion for children and strong teaching partnership make this a standout program. Initially, our daughter was quite nervous separating from us. Lindsey and Tanis worked with us to develop a strategy we were all comfortable with to help ease her anxiety. Each day they would communicate her successes, allowing us to feel completely comfortable dropping her off each morning. We have seen so much growth in our daughter throughout the year and it is absolutely heartwarming to witness her expanding confidence, budding friendships and true love of learning. We are so thankful to all the staff at MRELC  preschool for helping to create such a positive experience for our family. We would strongly recommend this program to anyone and will be sending our second child there in the fall.

After 18 months of staying at home with our daughter it was time for me to go back to work. There is that moment where you come through those daycare doors for the first time and start wondering if we made the right decision. When I was greeted by the staff and educators that first morning those warm smiles, reassuring words and their willingness to work with us was more than any parent could ask for. My heart was always at ease when we dropped her off over the years and she regularly did not want to leave when it was time to come home. They encouraged my daughter's growth, independence and would collaborate with us to carry on the practices from home into daycare as well. The staff and leadership always put the needs, health and development of the children first. They spend time getting to know children as well as families. We completed our time at MRELC with my daughter holding amazing memories, meeting wonderful friends and more than prepared for the next chapter in Kindergarten. I KNOW we made the best possible decision for our daughter by sending her to the Mount Royal Early Learning Centre.

I love MRELC and so do my children. It is an educational based facility with the most wonderful and engaging teachers exposing our children to so many different aspects of learning through sensory and play. The teachers really make an effort to individualize programs and develop based on the needs of the children. Everyone has done an amazing job navigating COVID and I have never once felt unsafe sending my children there on any level. To top it all off, the various outdoor spaces the children have access too are astounding and the available programming such as Kin-Dir or the music classes (Pre-COVID) are only an added bonus.

As of September 2020, we will be starting our 4th year at MRELC preschool (child no.2, second year) and our kids have been really happy there. Miss Tanis and Miss Lindsey are fantastic with their wealth of experience, big hearts and never ending patience. But another big draw for us is that there are two very large outside areas for the kids to play, but if it’s below -15C then the children can go on a walk within the university buildings all undercover. When we were looking at other preschools, they weren’t able to offer the guarantee of physical activity, which was important to us. MRELC also run almost the full 10 months of the scholastic year, whereas most other preschools we looked at had loads of ‘PD’ days and holidays, so the kids get a lot more days there. It’s a wonderful pre-school, and we’ll be sad come the day when the last of our kids has left.