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Mary Hopkins Elementary

REMINDER: All ELCC and B&A programs closed Friday November 29th (schools remain open)

We wanted to remind you about the up coming facility closure on Friday November 29 as well as other upcoming events and closures. On Friday November 29th, while schools remain open, our ELCC (day care) and Before & After School programs will be closed so that our staff can participate in a City of Hamilton sponsored Professional Development opportunity for our educators.


2024 – 2025 Holiday Closures for B&A and ELCC Programs

A reminder that this winter our Board of Directors has decided to close our Early Learning and Childcare program (ELCC), and we will not be offering a Winter Break School Holiday Program this year, for the two weeks that schools are closed. All programs will be closed entirely from Monday December 23, 2024 to Friday January 3, 2025, inclusive. We will reopen our ELCC

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Update on Extension of the Before and After School Program Affordability Grant

Dear School Age Before and After School Families, Good News! We have confirmed that the City of Hamilton has now extended the Schoolage Before and After School Affordability Grant through to the end of December 2024 (originally ended June 30, 2024). This program was in place during the 2023 – 2024 school year affording our families a reduction in care fees. Children aged 6

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UPDATED Mar 18 (Wait List Open to All Families) SEPTEMBER 2024 – JUNE 2025 Before / After School Program Registrations

Our 2024/2025 Before & After School Wait List Registration has been launched for all families. Please note that we are already at or near full capacity for most of our locations and programs dues to increased demand from currently registered families. Due to limited demand, in consultation with the HWDSB, we will be unable to offer a program at FLAMBOROUGH CENTRE this year. Please

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2023 Child Care Tax Receipts have all been sent out by email or are on your Family Registration page

All annual tax receipts for child care in 2023 have now been emailed to our families. You will receive one receipt per child, per program, so the total of receipts received (unless you received a repeat by accident) is your total. Please check your Spam Folder first if you did not receive them. Then your Family Registration page 2023 Tax Receipt Tab: https://www.campwaterdown.com/registration/#fndtn-tabpane-0-3 Receipts

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Reminder: Winter Holiday Closures

2023 – Early 2024 Holiday Closures Before and After School Programs: Closed December 25 – January 5. All Before and After programs are closed due to the winter school break closure. A Winter Break Program for January 2-5 has been announced by email and on your Family Registration Page and operated at our Guy B Brown location. Capacity is limited. ELCC Programs: Closed December

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Before & After In-School Care Availability: Guy B. Brown and Mary Hopkins

This year we received high demand for space at our in-school Before and After School program and unfortunately we continue to have limited availability. Since June we have also been able to offer lower child care rates for ALL families due to government subsidy programs (CWELCC and the Hamilton Affordability Plan). We have reached out to many families on our current wait list in

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Mary Hopkins Before and After School Orientation

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Wait List Registration for our September 2024 Before and After School Program is currently open from the Program Registration menu or your Family Registration page.
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