We are a registered non-profit charitable corporation, owned and operated by the parents of our students. We are located in the newly renovated historic Carriage House in the welcoming and close-knit neighbourhood of Sandy Hill.
**EXCITING CHANGE OF LOCATION!** This piece from the Ottawa Citizen features our recent move to the historic Carriage House and change to a licensed daycare from our previous nursery school model: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/bettye-hyde-nursery-makes-move-to-new-sandy-hill-hub-1.2545399
Bettye Hyde Co-operative Early Learning Centre (ELC) offers full-time care and learning for children from 18 months to five years of age. We are located in Sandy Hill, an historic, downtown neighbourhood, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
We employ 6 full-time Registered Early Childhood Educators and a chef. We offer bilingual teaching (French and English) in our pre-school program and will be extending it to our toddler program in the near future.
For more than 70 years, Bettye Hyde Co-operative ELC has been providing an enjoyable, non-stressful environment where children can develop at their own pace with the guidance of specially trained staff. From a very young age, children enjoy and benefit from playing with others. Development is enhanced and socialization stimulated. Time spent in an early learning centre is one of life’s best developmental experiences.
Named after its first director – a pioneer in the field of Early Childhood Education – Bettye Hyde ELC is a parents’ co-operative devoted to awakening and strengthening that same co-operative impulse in the very young.
Admission conditions
As a co-operative venture, parental involvement is essential to Bettye Hyde's success, keeping costs down and quality and community spirit up!
Every family enrolled at Bettye Hyde is required to assist with at least one of our two major fund-raising events and to sign up for one or more volunteer roles behind the scenes.
