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Dear parents/guardians, The Hawthorne on Essex Daycare Board would like to draw your attention to a critical issue that may significantly impact how much the Hawthorne on Essex Daycare must pay to lease their space from the Toronto District School Board, and consequently, your child-care fees.  The issue: The Child Care Occupancy Grant from the City provides funding for leasing costs for more than 280 child-care programs located within schools. Next week, the City of Toronto is considering terminating this

Please see below for a message from the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care for information and links to their petition of the Ontario government’s cuts to child care in Ontario. Thanks! The Hawthorne on Essex Daycare ~~~~~~~~~ With one click, you can send a message to Premier Doug Ford to stop the cuts to child care. Our new web feature lets you instantly send an email to your MPP, Premier Ford, Education Minister Lisa Thompson, as well as Official

The Hawthorne on Essex Daycare Board is currently looking for one or more parent volunteers to help with coordinating social activities for families of the daycare. The hope is to build on some of the daycare’s past activities to create simple social get-togethers for parents to hang out and kids to play. Example events might include a barbecue on the school grounds, or movie night in the gym. With warmer weather just around the corner, we’d like to start planning

Dear families, The school has informed us that all external doors will be replaced over the March Break (March 12-16). They will start with door 2 (most westerly door facing Essex Street) so parents can still use door 3 (doors facing our fenced in playground). The following day or two families can use door 2 while door 3 is being worked on. TDSB Facilities have assured us that they have worked with Childcare Centers in the school before and will