Seton Ridge Children's Center Is Now Offering Early Drop Off and Stay & Play!

We are so excited that our school year is up and running. It is so nice to see all of our families and to hear the joy in all of the children.

The state has started to lift some of the COVID restrictions. We will continue to follow previous guidelines as the health and safety of our students, staff and families is of the utmost importance to us. This being said, we are please to announce that on Oct 20th, we will begin offering Early Drop Off and Stay & Play to our families.

Our early drop off will be anytime between 8:00 and 8:50am. The fee is $8.00 per hour or $4.00 per half hour. All children may participate in this program.

Our Stay & Play program will be available anytime between 12:00 - 2:00pm. There is an annual $25.00 registration fee. The fee is $8.00 per hour or $4.00 per half hour.  At this time, Stay & Play is only offered to toilet trained children. Children must bring their own non-perishable peanut free lunch. The afternoon activities are low-keyed and varied, responding to the needs of the children at that time of day.

Parents, if your child will be absent please leave a message on our Attendance Hotline
954-282-6315
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Please take your child to the bathroom prior to bringing them to school.
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We have school shirts available in the office.

Stay safe and may God bless you and your families.

Register now for the 2020-21 School Year!

We are continuing to enroll students for the 2020-21 school year.  You can call 954-345-7178 or complete the form on our Registration page to schedule an appointment to tour our school and pick up the appropriate registration papers.

We look foward to having you join our Seton Ridge Family.

At Seton Ridge Children’s Center, we fundamentally believe that children are entitled to a childhood that is rich in wonder and discovery. After all, that is what childhood is for!

We respect the child’s right to be exactly who he or she is at exactly this moment in time - with all the limits and possibilities his or her age and developmental level impose and anticipate.

These early childhood years are the ones in which the world is being absorbed through every pore. Everything is new, and so we provide as many experiences as possible in which children can discover, test, re-invent, and reconstruct their knowledge until they own it. These are the experiences that reading, math, science - all the traditional academic skills - will build upon as a foundation. But first children must glob, pour, line up, squish, sing, dance, invent - and do it all again.

In early childhood experience is the teacher, the process - not at all the product - is what has meaning. Activities need to be open-ended, allowing for all sorts of possibilities, and facilitated by a skillful teacher who knows how to ask the right questions or get out the right stepping stones.

Our children are learning how to take risks and learning to trust themselves (they are becoming competent.) They are learning about responsibility (clean-up is, after all, part of the process.) They are learning conversation, negotiation, storytelling, and making needs known: they are learning the power of the word. (They will want to read.)

Learn to expect wonder around every corner - that is something only a little child can do.

Seton Ridge Children’s Center operates as a ministry of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church. The children are exposed to basic Christian concepts and our 3’s and 4’s classes visit the Chapel for brief, age-appropriate Chapel Talks. We believe that children this age are too young to understand any of the church’s dogma; children learn best by what they see lived out before them. A loving way of life is what we strive to have the children see in all of us.

We offer classes for:
• Young 2’s - One year old by March 1, 2020
• Two ½’s: Two years old by March 1, 2020
• Three’s: Three years old by September 1, 2020
• Four’s/VPK: Four years old by September 1, 2020

 VPK program is offered for 4-year-olds - no fees.

Registration is required at www.familyservices.floridaearlylearning.com/account/login