Northdale KinderCare

These teachers and directors are HORRIBLE at reporting incident reports. Do NOT trust them. Its been multiple times an incident has happened with my children either they DONT report anything or they try to notify through their app which Ive told them COUNTLESS times I do NOT receive anything, to notify me ANOTHER way. Still NOTHING.
Aug 26th, 2023

***** update on Jan 2023 ***** I dropped my 4 starts to 2 starts since my review from last year. Its entirely your choice, but I would avoid this school for VPK. Reasons why: 1) They have another director for this school year. This is either their 4th or 5th. 2) Its January and I found out they have yet to do any AP testing. Thankfully, I dont think its that important for her to have for kindergarten, but imagine if it was 3) I understand the lack of direction without a stable director, but what about the assistant director? What is she for? Is it not her duty to step in when directors cannot? At this point I think this center just needs someone stable, dedicated and better communication, better management. Ive worked in VPK school and my mother was a VPK teacher and director for years. So I know what a teachers role, asst directors role and directors role should be. So the lack of the things I see in this school is beyond mind blowing. Again, thankfully the teacher teaches well. *******end of Jan 2023 update***** I received an email asking to please leave an honest review and so I will. Our daughter is attending kindercare at Northdale since the beginning of school year. She has only been going for VPK. I will give you readers the bad bits first. The first few months has been quite frustrating. They switched directors a few times within less than 2 months or so (typing this in Dec 2022) in the beginning of the school year. I never asked why, I just felt bad for the staff that was present. It seemed like no one knew what they were doing. The lack of communication drove me insane! We almost pulled our daughter out of this school. We started to look around for other schools and right when we were about to take her out there were 2 reasons why we didnt. 1) She was already almost 2 months in and I didnt want to do that to her. 2) The VPK teacher Mrs. Maritza is a phenomenal teacher! My mom use to teach VPK so her teaching style kind of reminds me of hers. Mrs. Maritza actually teaches and is getting our daughter ready for big kid school. She even gives her homework every Friday. She is very sweet to our daughter. The staff is pretty nice too. The director that has finally been there for more than a few weeks appears to be doing good as well. I pray that next school year things start off better for other parents. I understand that preschool staff are under paid and its hard to find great teachers for VPK not just kind but also one that teaches good. So if you made it this far into my review, Mrs Maritza is a great teacher and Im not sure if our daughter would have stayed had it not been for her. If management reads this, give her a raise! Teachers like her are rare and she deserves it. Our almost 5 year old recognizes and reads a good amount of sight words and her writing skills are improving over time. She is always so happy to see her teacher. Id give 5 stars but because of everything from the beginning of the school year and the lack of communication at the beginning I gave it 4. * I will update this review if needed by the end of her school year. If you see no update below this line, it means things continued to go well.* Update was posted up top since I felt it was important.
Feb 12th, 2023

Apr 29th, 2022

My kids used to attend here and due to relocating I had to transfer my children out. The worse decision of my life. The director and teachers were extremely helpful when it came to my oldest son who was having trouble adjusting to our new norm. The staff as a whole was amazing, almost felt like family.... We will be coming to visit very soon.
Jul 5th, 2021

My 3 year old loves KinderCare at northdale. He loves Ms. Sarah and Ms. Pam very much. Enjoy playing outdoors and very happy bringing the artwork, coloring and his alphabet and number writing to home.
Jan 23rd, 2021