Smart Start

Margaret McCain accepts gift from children at the opening of the Holland College Early Learning Centre

CHARLOTTETOWN: Friday, Dec. 2/ The Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain joined Premier Robert Ghiz here today for the opening of a newly expanded Smart Start program at West Kent School and a new early learning centre at Holland College.

Smart Start includes a range of enhanced services for children and families transitioning from the province’s Best Start Program. Mrs. McCain announced a four-year, $600,000 pilot that will provide preschool programming for children transitioning from Best Start along with continued resources for parents. The ...

Smart Start PEI joins new Preschool Excellence Initiative

Smart Start, the integrated service model demonstrating best practices in early childhood service delivery, is becoming part of the PEI government’s new Preschool Excellence Initiative.

Four Smart Start programs have been selected to become Early Years Centres in phase one of implementation. Early Years Centres are the core of the new preschool initiative. They follow a common curriculum, have mandated parent committees and are operated by non-profit organizations. Staff salaries and parent fees reflect a province-wide grid.

Chosen as Early Years Centres are the Smart Start sites at St Jean and ...

CHARLOTTETOWN, Nov. 29, 2011 /CNW/ - The Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain joins Premier Robert Ghiz here for the opening of the new early learning centre at Holland College and a newly expanded Smart Start program. Both initiatives are supported by the Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation Inc. (MWMFF).

Friday, December 2

9:45 a.m.

Smart Start expansion. West Kent School gym, 27 Viceroy Street. With the Honourable Robert Ghiz, Jane Bertrand, program director MWMFF, Verna Bruce, Chair of Smart Start and the children and parents of Smart Start.

11:00 a.m.

Holland College Early Learning Centre opening. Prince ...

Smart Start is a comprehensive program that offers a continuum of services to children, parents and families. At the core are Smart Start Early Years Centres that offer early learning and child care to preschool children and a continuum of services to their families.

Smart Start began as a preschool program five years ago located in Prince Street School and modelled after Toronto First Duty. A partnership with the Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation (MWMFF) in 2009 expanded Smart Start into a full-time preschool and infant program, aligned with the school system.

In 2010, the PEI government introduced full ...

Smart Start provides promising beginnings for PEI’s children
December 4, 2009

CHARLOTTETOWN, PEI - An innovative new children’s program got its official launch here today in a school gym packed with kids and parents and government, education, health and community officials.

Called “Smart Start”, the program is a unique partnership between the Eastern School District, Prince Street School, Public Health Nursing, Holland College, the University of PEI and CHANCES, a non-profit community agency. Operating out of two inner city locations, the program reaches out to local families offering a full day/full year child and family program that includes ...