The Elizabethport Presbyterian Early Child Care Program is led by New Director Patricia McRae, who continues to provide a high -quality education and social development curriculum. As a Provider Center we serve 3year old students who are under the Elizabeth Board of Education and under the free and public Universal Preschool Program or Preschool Expansion Program as it is known in New Jersey. Our classrooms are large and attractive with bathrooms inside each classroom, we have six classrooms with the capacity to house fifteen students in each.

We utilize the High Scope curriculum, which provides an early childhood learning experience that can be adapted and modified for differences in age and ability, developmental stages, cultural backgrounds, family needs and identified special needs. Our curriculum includes: music movement, Art teaching both process (student’s unique creation) art and productive (a uniformed outcome for the project or art work), Social and emotional skills, math, language arts, and science.

We extend our curriculum with extra- curricular activities such as trips, storytellers, parties, as well as provide parent and their children events such as Thanksgiving Dinner and other parent-child activities and projects.

We celebrate the diversity of our students whose families come from over twenty different countries or territories. To serve the population better, each classroom is assigned a CDA (who is a teacher’s assistant with a nationally recognized credential in early childhood development) along with a licensed and certified teacher as staff members in the classroom; who speak both Spanish and English.

We are also staffed with Family Workers who provide the onboarding process of registration, information, resources, and parent workshops as well as a Chef and an assistant who prepare nutritional meals for breakfast, lunch and snack each day.

The Early Childhood program serves both children and their parents by providing resources that help to align the home/school connection in the classroom; as well as provide parents with information about resources throughout the community.

The Early Childhood Program has been experiencing low enrollment since the pandemic crisis to address the low enrollment crisis we are looking to utilize our full license capacity by bringing back the Before and After School Wrap Around Program and by offering a Two and a half Year Old Program to families in the community.