OUR ROOTS

Great Hope Preschool (GHP) is developmentally appropriate in its approach to early childhood care and education. The first location opened in October 2014 in Wesley Chapel, Florida. In the winter of 2018 our Lake Magdalene location in Tampa opened. In the summer of 2020 GHP assumed the operations of the childcare center, previously TodayCare Children's Center, located on PHSC's West Campus at 10230 Ridge Road in New Port Richey. Our program provides each child with the opportunity to attach firmly to a warm, responsive, appropriate, and consistent adult during the early years of your child’s life. We believe that children learn best by active exploration of their learning environment through play. Play is the foundation for academic learning and discoveries. According to Jean Piaget’s theory, learning is established through play and exposure to a variety of experiences. We believe that a home away from home should provide a warm, positive, understanding, safe, secure, and loving, place for a child to play and learn. Children are individuals with unique and special needs. Reach out to learn more, and enroll with us today!

DISCOVER

Great Hope Preschool

About Us

-Learning Through Play-

Three Locations to Meet Your Family Needs:

Tampa/Lake Magdalene - 1745 West Fletcher Avenue. Tampa, FL 33612

Wesley Chapel - 30126 State Road 54. Wesley Chapel, FL 33543

New Port Richey - 10230 Ridge Road. New Port Richey, FL 34654 at Pasco Hernando State College

Monday - Friday

6:30 am - 6:30 pm

Breakfast, Lunch and Snack Provided (Formula and Jar Food for Infants)

Infants

The infant program is designed to meet the unique and individual needs of the infants we serve. ... The components of a quality infant/toddler curriculum are based on: close, caring relationships with a primary caregiver. Predictable routines and environments. Infants is currently offered at the Lake Magdalene and PHCC locations.

Toddlers - Ages One Year to Two Years

At this age, your child is learning at a rapid rate. Each activity is purposeful and intentionally planned based on the teachers’ observations of each child and your child’s needs as well as their interests.

Community Partners

Community involvement and engagement produces long-term benefits. It gives children a sense of belonging and is crucial to the building of their identity. Children are gifted the opportunity to learn, grow, and achieve greatness through their community.

Field Trips

Communities are rich learning laboratories. Field trips make it possible for children to see the connections between what is happening at school and in the ‘real-world’. Field trips and hands on learning make concepts more memorable.

Parent Involvement

Families are the keystone that holds the educational framework together. When parents foster an atmosphere of learning and collaborate with educators, the entire educational system benefits, from students to teachers to parents themselves. Parents receive program updates via a private Facebook group, Learning Genie and Google Invites.

Healthy Homemade Meals

Cutting down fat, sugar and salt. Serving whole grains, fruit and vegetables. These meals (click here for menu) incorporate food from the four main food groups – grains, protein, vegetable and fruit. Milk is served with breakfast and snack. Meals are included in tuition. GHP is CCFP sponsor program. For more information on CCFP click here

Formula Provided

Our infant program includes healthy formula and baby food at no extra cost. We provide Parent's Choice™ Advantage® Infant Formula milk-based and soy based baby formula with iron that is a sole source of complete nutrition for your little one's first year.

Environmental Education

By providing both unstructured and structured experiences in nature from an early age, children build an understanding of the natural world that allows them to engage in increasingly complex investigation and knowledge building over time.

Financial Assistance for PHSC Students

The Child Care Grant is designed to provide financial assistance to PHSC students for childcare costs while attending college. Students who demonstrate financial need and are enrolled in a valid program of study may apply for this grant. Financial aid staff award these grants as part of the financial aid awarding process. Please visit the PHSC website for more information: https://financial-aid.phsc.edu/financial-aid-options/scholarships

Health and Safety Practices

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Learning Genie

Learning Genie helps parents to stay involved in children’s early learning. For more information click here.

Updates:

Receive instant updates on your child’s day at school: pictures/videos, activities, mood, books, songs, school reminders and daily routines (diaper, meal, nap for infant/toddlers). Never miss a moment.

Reminders:

Stay on top of important school events and reminders from teachers: all automatically synced with your calendar.

Learning Media

Access songs and books used during class! All at your fingertips. Extend interactive learning at home, and establish a greater relationship with your child.

Parenting Tips

Receive multimedia parenting tips and best practices recommendations from educators – customized for your child’s needs from his/her teacher

Email Daily Reports

Receive a beautiful email daily report about your child’s day at school. Easily shared with friends and families.

Privacy & Security

Your information is kept private in the AWS Virtual Private Cloud + SSL security license. Only you and the authorized school teachers have access to your child’s information

Price Match

We do our best to always offer you the lowest price, but if you find lower we will price match it. The match school must be a licensed preschool within 5 children of our capacity (55), provide meals and have similar hours. Breakfast, Lunch and Snack is provided. We do our best to always offer you the lowest price, but if you find lower we will price match it. CALL TODAY 813 -323-8030 FOR ENROLLMENT SPECIALS!

Creative Curriculum and Teaching Strategies Gold

MyTeachingStrategies™, GOLD®

The authentic, ongoing, observation-based assessment system that helps teachers and administrators focus on what matters most for children’s success. Strong partnerships with families are an essential part of any high-quality early childhood education program. With Teaching Strategies, we have a wealth of tools completely devoted to helping early childhood teachers build connections between a child’s two most important worlds: school and home.

Grounded in our 38 research-based objectives for development and learning, GOLD® supports effective teaching and assessment, while providing teachers with more time to spend with the children in the program. Accessed through MyTeachingStrategies™, GOLD® automatically links teaching and assessment, making it easier to connect the dots across the most important aspects of high-quality early childhood education.

The Creative Curriculum®

The Creative Curriculum® for Preschool is a comprehensive, research-based curriculum that promotes exploration and discovery as a way of learning, enabling children to develop confidence, creativity, and lifelong critical thinking skills.

Rates

Great Hope Preschool - Click Here for Full Rate Sheet

$255 Infants
$195 One Year Old $175 Two Year Old
$150 Three Year Old $135 Four Year Old
VPK 8-5 $110.00. VPK All Day $120.00
OST $110/$75.00/$45

Please call 813-323-8030 for PHSC Student, Faculty and Staff Rates

Part-Time Options available. Military and Payment Discounts. Referral Program.

*Re-enrollment fee is charged in January
We accept School Readiness/ELC from Pasco and Hillsborough

Prek - Potty Training Twos to Three Years

The prek program is designed to place learning to play and social skill building at the for front. Your child will work on developing the fundamental skills to be a good friend and explore the classroom materials appropriately. One of our favorite conversations to have with parents is how to potty train.

Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK) FREE

Give your child a jump start by preparing them for school and enhancing their pre-reading, pre-math, language and social skills. By developing the skills children children are more likely to be successful in school.

OUR MISSION

To provide quality preschool while supporting and working side by side with families.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

Great Hope Preschools believes that children thrive in an environment which 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.