We will contact you or a designated adult from your Emergency Information Form so that your child can be collected from the Academy as soon as possible. While waiting to be picked up, your child will be secluded from other children and rest peacefully.

Our facilities have a door with a key code. Entrances and exits to outdoor play areas are maintained and monitored with care. Only individuals authorized by you may take up your child from the Academy with valid identification. Prior to employment, thorough background investigations were conducted on every employee.

No. We provide healthy, age-appropriate meals and snacks for children to eat daily. However, if your child is going to stay OVERNIGHT, please pack the appropriate food items for them.

Because each student is unique, allergen information is posted in each classroom. Please indicate on our special needs form or dietary restriction form if your child has a food allergy, so that we can make the necessary substitutions.

All Joy & Gladness Academy instructors must meet or exceed state requirements for childcare providers and are required to participate in annual continuing education. Prior to employment, we also require background investigations through local, county, state, and/or federal agencies.

Under no circumstances do we employ physical or verbal punishment. As a time to calm down, we use positive guidance and re-direction to acknowledge children's feelings and emotions and provide them with social protocols, problem-solving techniques, self-calming activities, and interests-based choices and activities.

Your child is eager to learn new information and interact with companions at this age. Your five-year-old will learn and interact with classmates in both small and large groups. Character education, language arts and literacy, mathematics, science, and social studies will continue to be emphasized.

Due to the concerns around COVID-19, we are unable to allow drop-in observation by parents or family members. We hope to reverse this rule as soon as it becomes safe.

Yes. We schedule family-teacher conferences annually to discuss your child's development, but you may request a meeting with the Director at any time.

Using our standards-based kindergarten curriculum and the MELS standards, children will enter kindergarten well-prepared. We are committed to the development of the whole child by emphasizing the development of social and emotional skills that prepare children for academic success. Our curriculum encourages children to investigate and discover, making learning an enjoyable and enriching experience that fosters a lifelong passion for education.

Yes, we do take the children outside daily, weather permitting. Children should be appropriately attired for our playground and for group excursions.

We will occasionally take the students on field trips. You will be notified of any planned excursions in advance and will be required to sign a permission slip to return, along with any applicable fee, prior to the trip. The academy provides or makes arrangements for the field trip's transportation.

Staff at Joy & Gladness Academy utilize technology as a means of instruction and communication. We believe it is essential to teach children how to use the devices they will encounter in school so that they can use them for educational recreation and research.

Each classroom at a Joy & Gladness Academy location is equipped with a classroom camera.

Joy & Gladness Academy adheres to our Health Essentials guidelines, which are standard operating procedures designed to prevent the spread of potential infections across all of our Academies. This section contains precautions and recommendations for COVID-19, with a particular emphasis on social isolation, disinfection, wellness education, and symptom monitoring. These protocols may alter depending on the region and severity of the outbreak. The objective of Health Essentials is to maintain the utmost level of health precautions and cleanliness for the delivery of appropriate child care.