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Our Facilities

Infant Care

The infant rooms at Creek Wood Academy are designed specifically for our littlest students. The atmosphere is warm and nurturing, and the children are surrounded by caring staff and developmentally appropriate toys and materials. We believe that working closely with parents establishes a partnership that will grow over the years. Together, we will establish a daily schedule that includes nap times, play times, and feeding times. This daily schedule provides infants with a sense of security and order in their lives. Of course, the schedule is flexible and is adjusted to meet the needs of the moment for your infant.

Q: Do you open early or stay open late?
A: Our hours of operation are 6:00AM to 6:00PM Monday to Friday.

We are cloth diaper friendly!

Our spacious infant classrooms provide a place for infants to explore and make new discoveries. Each room is filled with materials that will help foster your child’s developmental growth. We provide experiences that challenge and support each child’s cognitive, language, social, emotional, physical, and creative development. During the course of the day at Creek Wood Academy, each child has opportunities to create, explore the environment, develop personal interaction skills, and learn problem-solving skills and concepts through hands-on experience.

Q: Do you allow breast milk and cloth diapers?
A: Yes, we do welcome parents to provide breast milk or nurse their babies at our school. Cloth diapers are welcome, and our baby teachers are trained on proper sanitary handling of cloth diapers.

Toddler Program

As toddlers, children need a place to foster their natural love of learning, independence, and to learn self-discipline. Our program is individualized for each child and their needs. We focus on the whole child and work to enhance intellectual, emotional, physical, and social development.

Q: Are you closed for holidays or in-services for staff?
A: We are closed for eight holidays and two in-service days: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and the day after, and two days at Christmas.

The HighScope curriculum is consistent with the best practices recommended by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). The curriculum integrates all aspects of child and youth development. Using research-validated strategies, this approach enhances each young person’s growth in the foundations of academics as well as in social-emotional, physical, and creative areas. We also teach math, science, and social studies with all our students. Every day is filled with developmentally appropriate activities, songs, rhymes, stories, books, and tools for assessing your child’s development. We use the activities that the children do each day to observe where they are developmentally and monitor their growth. We assess development at least twice each year and encourage Parent-Teacher Conferences with each assessment to discuss and compare notes as to how your child is progressing. We use these opportunities to talk and discover new ways to encourage, foster, and feed your child’s passion for learning.

The Toddler Program is designed to encourage good learning habits and develop skills in language, motor control, social development, dealing with confrontation constructively, showing respect, and gaining a positive attitude toward a school environment.

Preschool

The HighScope Preschool Curriculum extends into our Preschool Program. It’s built around 58 developmental milestones in eight curriculum content areas that are aligned with state educational standards. The developmental milestones are critical in defining what we teach, how we provide education, teaching practices, the classroom environment, routine, and interactions.

Preschool classrooms are carefully planned with learning in mind. They are conducive to our daily routine and allow students to be secure and self-reliant.

The centerpiece of the day is the unique plan-do-review process, a sequence developed by HighScope. Students have daily opportunities to plan an activity and carry it out. Then, they reflect on what happened. This strengthens their ability to regulate and organize themselves so they can stay focused on what they have chosen to do and to solve any problems that arise during that activity. Research has shown that this process significantly, positively affects children’s scores on measures of developmental progress.

Tuition Rates & Discounts

Our programs are designed to provide each child with exactly what they need. Call 615-790-3331 or contact us to schedule a tour of our spacious Franklin, TN, facility.