Educators & Staff

Hi, I’m Brittany

I’m a 2021 graduate of the Early Childhood Education diploma program at NSCC Kingstec here in Kentville, and have been working in the childcare field ever since. I was born in Ontario, but moved to Bridgewater in 2005 where I lived and completed my schooling, from elementary all the way through grade 12. I located to the valley in the fall of 2019 to begin college and start my ECE career and lived here for about a year and a half, before moving back home in the spring of 2021 due to Covid. I since relocated back to the valley not long following, after accepting an ECE position here at Little Pumpkins, joining the LP team in the fall of 2021. I’ve been around children basically my whole life - from babysitting, to coaching, and then to becoming an educator. My biggest passion is working with children, being a positive role model, guiding them and helping them grow and succeed into beautiful and confident future adults. I love arriving to the centre every morning and see all the children greet me and hug me. In my eyes, children learn best through play - allowing them to get messy, take risks and use their imaginations. In my free time outside of the centre, you can find me spending time with my friends & family, going shopping or for spontaneous road trips, being outdoors, hanging at the beach in the summer, or just relaxing at home. I feel so blessed having the most rewarding career and caring for all of your beautiful, creative, loving children.

Lead Teacher: Rainbow Room

Toddlers

Full Time Chef

Hey I’m Chef Dylan.

I’ve been cooking for sixteen years within various locations all across Nova Scotia, I’m a husband, father to 3 kids, have a beautiful Shepard mix named Sasha and I’m a proud business owner.

My passions include, spending time with my family, dancing multiple of styles, hiking, mushroom foraging, camping, gaming, playing pool (I love playing pool), huge kid at heart, laughing until my face hurts and always trying to put a smile on everyone faces.

This year my focus is implementing cultural meals into our daily recipes . It’s important to me as a father to eat healthy meals from various cultures on our beautiful planet. With a family of mixed cultures , we eat a lot of different foods and it’s something I’m very passionate about and excited to bring 

this into our kitchen at Little Pumpkins .

Support teacher- Preschool

My name is Cindy Graves. I live in North Alton, formally from Hall’s Harbour. I have three older sisters. I am a mother of two wonderful children , a grandmother, a great grandmother and a wife to a loving husband. I love being around children and watching them grow.

My hobbies include horseback riding, cross stitch, diamond painting, going to the beach, long drives and spending my time with my children when they come for a visit from Ontario and of course spending time with my grandchildren and great grandchildren.

School-Age Teacher; Afternoons & Summer

Paige is attending Acadia University, BA-Psychology, minor in Sociology. She enjoys hiking, scrapbooking and being outdoors.
She loves working with children and dreams of attaining her masters in Social Work. 

Hello, my name is Hazel, 

I’m a high school student at NKEC, in the Early French Immersion program. 

I’ve always loved spending time with children, they just have the purest and sweetest hearts, and they never fail to make me smile and laugh. 

I joined little pumpkins the fall of 2021, and would come in after school, to tidy up and help around. 

This summer has been the first time being in the classroom with the children and I am absolutely loving it!   I love knowing that I’m helping children to grow and learn - while making it fun! 

I’m very happy that this has been the experience of my first ever job.

Hi my name is Dustin Sellars, originally from New Brunswick, from a small community called Blacks Harbour. I love to travel on my spare time, mostly because I love learning about different cultures but also exploring the beautiful scenery our earth gives to us.

 I am currently studying Early Childhood Education through Nova Scotia Community College, with being a kid to heart, it makes me enjoy this profession even more. I am very happy to announce that I will be joining the Kentville After School Program, with bringing forward my interest and connections to the children, to also being a role model and a support system for families in need. 

One quote that has stuck out to me from jumping into this field is from Maria Montessori, she stated 

 “ It's the process, not the product.” 

Understanding that no child should be judged on what their creative minds have introduced to the world, but acknowledge on how they did it. 

Assistant teacher in mornings at LP, teacher are KASP in the afternoons

We are hiring-please find our job posting on indeed or send an email with your resume to littlepumpkinskentville@gmail.com