Douglas Park Community Centre

Welcome to the Douglas Park Community Association (the “DPCA”).Together with the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation (the “Vancouver Park Board”), the DPCA develops and offers programs and services to the Douglas Park community.

DOUGLAS PARK PRESCHOOL

Douglas Park Preschool strives to provide high quality, affordable and accessible child care to all children and families. The Douglas Park Preschool classes provide children with an environment that fosters a well-rounded social, learning, experience in a fun and safe space. Our enthusiastic, caring, ECE Licensed Professionals provide a warm, nurturing environment for children to play, learn and grow in.

The preschool program follows an Emergent Curriculum philosophy, it is play-based with programming initiated by the children’s interests.The program encourages exploration and creativity in a fun, stimulating environment through, art, music, dramatic/creative play and outdoor play. Other skills children will learn through social play within the classroom are math, science, creativity, literacy and language and problem solving. These skills are learned in the block area, at circle time, at free art and free play time.

DOUGLAS PARK LICENSED SCHOOL AGE CARE

All of our programs are currently full. Please contact the front office or Rosie at 604-257-8134 to put your child on the ongoing waitlist. Douglas Park strives to offer quality care in an environment that offers children a safe, nurturing place for them to socialize and participate in programmed activities.

We only offer care to children attending Emily Carr Elementary School and Edith Cavell Elementary School. Children are picked up at their school and walked back to the community centre. We only offer fulltime spaces (Mon-Fri).