Extra Steps Preschool

An acquaintance suggested Extra Steps Preschool to us as we were looking for some summer activity options for our 4 year old. Larry, Nicole and Krista are fantastic. Each week of their summer program has a theme and the activities are so well planned. Our daughter never wants to leave at the end of the day and has asked to do another week. We feel so lucky we found this place.

We have been lucky enough to put our 3 children through Extra Steps, first discovering this gem over 10 years ago. Teacher Robb made our eldest, and us, feel comfortable leaving him for the first time. Our son took a few days to get adjusted, then didn’t want to leave. The 3.5 hour duration and choice between am or pm classes are such a benefit. Our daughter attended a year later and loved teacher Christa. Our youngest is now in his final year of preschool and he loves Larry and Nicole (and Christa too!). The preschool space is bright and fun, teachers take the kids to the nearby parks and/or senior centre everyday and our kids always tell us how much they enjoy/ed the school. The teachers support each child’s development, offer to assist with any learning requests and instil the confidence and love of school which led to our older 2 thriving in private school kindergarten. We have recommended Extra Steps to numerous families over the years, even those who have been hesitant due to poor experiences at other schools, and they have all been so grateful for sharing this wonderful preschool with them. Kids are all treated with kindness and respect, which allows for personal development. As our time with Extra Steps will end at the close of this year, we wish to express our appreciation to the teachers for the love and support our kids have enjoyed- we really can’t recommend this preschool enough. Larry and Nicole also run the most fabulous outdoor program on Saturdays, which our youngest loves and will continue to do next year.

My son used to go to preschool here and he loved his teachers a lot. Originally he attended another preschool half of the week but the head teacher at the other preschool was terrible and treated him like he's challenged kid and she even talked to him like one. At Extra Steps Learning, they helped him to come out of his shell and helped him improve with his personal development without judging him any different from other kids. He improves tremendously ever since he attended preschool here 5 days a week. He's now in Kindergarten and he still talks about his teachers especially Ms. Christa. I like all the educators there but my favourite one is Ms. Christa. She really helps my son to develop social and personal skills there and always treated him with kindness.

We family loves Extra Steps! My elder son was originally attending one academic preschool and not happy so that we changed him to Extra Steps another year. It’s not only about the happiness (of course he couldn’t wait to be back everyday) but he just became a brighter, kindhearted, open mind kid in the single year with all the perfect teachers and friends, this is the most important foundation for kids I believe. Few years later we sent our younger kid there and receiving much more loves. All the teachers are amazing, they give all their love and care and support to their kids and, parents!! They are real people with flexible work. I would be way more happier to give more stars to Extra Steps than 5.