Early Learning Center
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Early Learning center
4 months- 4KThe main goal of St. Ignatius Early Learning Center is forming happy, confident readers.
A child’s early years are the foundation for his or her future development, providing a strong base for lifelong learning and learning abilities, including cognitive, social, and spiritual development. Well-established research continues to emphasize the importance of early childhood education as an essential building block of a child’s future success.
At St. Ignatius it is also the building block for the future of our parish and our faith.
The Early Learning Center at St. Ignatius is a vibrant and wonderful place. The faculty and staff love and nurture the students while providing academic and spiritual instruction.
The Early Learning Center has the finest teachers and staff who are ready to provide excellent learning opportunities using the most developmentally advanced curriculum. Not only are we the only school with a defined curriculum for even the youngest of Impalas, we also administer assessments to ensure your child is on track or help you address issues if or when they arise:- Annual Vision & Hearing Screenings for ages 1 year to 4 years
- Developmental Assessment Checklist at 3-month intervals from 9 months to 2 years
- Ongoing assessments with 3 formalized assessments using defined rubrics from 2 years through 4 years
- All assessments address the domains of Health & Motor, Social-Emotional, Language & Literacy and Cognition.
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Forming Confident ReadersLearn more about how St. Ignatius prioritizes academic success at a young age through programs like Phonics First.
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Nursery
The ELC Nursery program is focused on each child's development in areas of social and emotional skills, gross motor and fine motor skills, and language and cognition development.
Children are loved and intellectually stimulated in an environment focused on Christ. Our ELC Nursery utilizes the Lillio app for tracking of attendance, daily updates, pictures and parent contact.
Half day and full day options are available.
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Nursery Director
Mrs. Mary Catherine Turner
Mrs. Turner has her Bachelor of Education from
Auburn, her Master of Special Childhood Education from UAB and over 10 years experience.She brings extensive knowledge in childhood education and is a wonderful asset to the nursery program.
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Preschool
One of the main goals of our preschool program is forming confident readers.
We achieve this goal by teaching a combination of Phonics First, Heggerty Phonemic Awareness, Read Well and Writing Without Tears.
St. Ignatius preschool also forms the child in a full religion, science and math curriculum.
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Preschool director
Dr. Kathy Wilkins-JonesDr.
Dr. Kathy has her Doctor of Audiology degree.
She is a certified Auditory- Verbal Therapist, a Listening and Spoken Language Specialist and has over 20 years
experience.
She hand curated our curriculum which has now been adopted by other schools in our area due to the success of our program.
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