St. James

Our St. James site was the original location for Schoolhouse Playcare Centre of Lakehead Inc. Founded by the Lakehead Women Teachers Federation they had a vision of a workplace daycare which became a reality. It was the first workplace daycare centre in Northwestern Ontario and soon expanded to accommodate all families within the community. St. James School recently celebrated it's 100th birthday with a visit from Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

We have many advantages to being in a school with access to the gymnasium, library, computer lab and a recently developed adventure playground. This playground was a project initiated by the Schoolhouse Playcare Centre parents and staff. With a lot of creative ideas and a desire to see it happen, it became a reality with the help of the school community and Principal. We received funding from the Best Start initiative sponsored by our Provincial government to make this dream a reality.

The seamless day that the children experience who attend the school and our program is one of the many advantages of being located in a school. Our Kindergarten room and the school's JK Classroom have a doorway between them that is a pathway to collaboration of our programs. We meet regularly with JK/SK teachers and the Principal to look at ways of implementing the Reggio Emilia Principles within all of our programs. We do program planning and work on long term projects together that promote the current topic of interest, and we also follow the Ontario Curriculum guidelines for Kindergarten programs.

Many exciting events happen on a regular basis within the walls of St. James.

243 St. James St.
Thunder Bay, ON
P7A 3P1

Phone: 344-8719