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At Ida Barbour Early Learning Center, we’re proud to provide a caring and safe environment for your children. By following our mission, vision and values, we create a nurturing, stimulating and welcoming learning environment for all children.
We provide our students with the tools they need for future happiness and success. Our unique programs incorporate a variety of educational theories, while always keeping the child’s best interests in mind and allowing for hands-on, experiential learning. Get in touch to learn more!
Welcome to Ida Barbour Early Learning Center
Our goal at Ida Barbour Early Learning Center is to prepare children for the next stage of their lives through the development of motor abilities, thinking skills and healthy interactions with their peers. Keep reading to learn more!
Our Educational Program
Creative Play
Look into the eyes of every child and you will see their eagerness to learn. There’s a spark with each new discovery. And each new discovery is a step in the pathway to future learning. At Ida Barbour Early Learning Center, we prepare each child for success in school, in community, and in life. Our aim is to enhance quality of life for all children and their families by providing care in a safe, nurturing, and highly enriching environment. Our staff of loving, giving, and nurturing educators focuses every effort toward providing each child with the best opportunity to succeed in life.
Our Curriculum STREAMin 3
Interactive learning is hands-on training involving all senses, hearing, seeing, doing! With interactive learning, the student is in the spotlight, not the teacher, who supports, guides and motivates instead of lecturing and preaching about even simple daily tasks, like handwashing and tying shoes. Ida Barbour encourages Imagination, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Let's STREAM and LEARN
Being ready for school contributes greatly to a child’s ability to succeed academically and socially, in school and in later life. It requires physical and emotional well-being, motor development, a positive approach to new experiences, social and language skills, cognitive skills, and knowledge in general. A child’s readiness for school is impacted by many things, including home life, health, and social environment as well as incorporating and integrating all facets of the academic world.
Ida Barbour Early Learning Center Mission
The mission of the Ida Barbour Early Learning Center is to prepare each child for success in school, community, and life. The Ida Barbour Early Learning Center enhances productivity for all children and their families by providing care in a safe, nurturing, and highly enriching environment.
We believe that children thrive in an environment that values their own uniqueness, while providing support and opportunities to grow emotionally, socially, and creatively. By building on each child’s strengths, interests and curiosities, we guide each child to explore the world around them as well as develop new abilities and form close relationships.
Our Vision
Historic Ida Barbour Early Learning Center is a welcoming, safe, healthy and stimulating environment that facilitates the educational, personal and physical development of children and their families.
Contact Us
1400 Camden Avenue, Portsmouth, Va 23704
Office 7573973097
Fax 757 3985750
