The Extended Day Program will provide your child with the opportunity to participate in activities that will complement what happens during the regular school day. Activities will include quiet reading time, gross motor opportunities in the gym and outside, inquiry based activities, as well as open play within the classroom. Your child will be in a familiar setting with staff and children they have been with during the school day.
The Extended Day Program will operate on all regular school days as follows:
Morning Program (AM) - 7:00 am to 7:45 am.
If your child is attending the morning EDP, students may be dropped off to the designated classroom with the Early Childhood Educators (ECEs) on duty. The program and supervision begins at 7:00 am. Parents are required to enter the school and drop their children off at the EDP classroom each morning. The ECEs will have a variety of activities for the children to participate in. At 7:45 am, Kindergarten students will join the other students arriving to school in the Kindergarten yard and the School Age children will depart to their homerooms.
Afternoon Program (PM) - 2:30 pm to 6:00 pm.
Students attending the afternoon EDP will take their belongings to their assigned EDP classroom. Kindergarten students are brought to their EDP classrooms by staff members. Grades 1-6 will be dismissed at the end of the school day to go to their EDP classrooms where a staff member will be there to greet them. Here they will be provided with a variety of activities (guided and free choice), have outdoor time, snack time, and quiet time. All students must be picked up by 6:00 pm. Parents are required to sign out their child at the end of the day with the EDP staff member. Please make sure that you place your child’s shoes in the correct bin or cubby before leaving the school.
A healthy, allergy friendly snack is provided in the morning and afternoon portions of the Extended Day Program. There are a variety of different snack options that staff members provide and rotate through.
Just a reminder that snack will not be provided until the second week of the Extended Day Program. Please make sure that your child has a small snack for the end of the day for the first week.
The Extended Day Program also provides full day care from 7:00am to 6:00pm on most PD days, as well as days during the Winter Holiday Break and March Break at select school locations. There are currently no programs offered during the summer months. The Early Learning Office will send out email reminders to sign up for upcoming dates if parents require care for their children on those days.
The program is delivered by teams of Registered Early Childhood Educators (RECE’s) and Early Learning Assistants (ELA’s).
The Knoxdale team is as follows:
AM Extended Day Staff (ECEs)
Shelby Ewing
Kayleigh Stephanian
Risa Wine
Casandra Williams
Sozan Radfar
PM Extended Day Staff (ECEs)
Hadeel Abdo
Roma Boyko
Amira Farhat
Bella Michelli
Samantha Bramah
Zahra Anfasi
For more information about how to register your child, fees, and other important information, please visit the OCDSB's Extended Day Program website.