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Show Day care available for teachers What do employees of the Davis School District do with their children while moms are teaching in the classroom and dads are coaching on the athletic field? Most of them more than 65 districtwide will place their preschool-aged children in one of the three high school day care centers, according to Alice Breckenridge, coordinator of the Woods Cross High School day-care center. The centers are located at View-mont, View-mont, Davis and Woods Cross high schools. All three centers accommodate accom-modate between 18 and 25 youngsters, as young as two months and as old as five years. "And the centers do a good job of not only accommodating, but also teaching these youngsters,' said Breckenridge. And proof of their ac complishments comes with the awarding of "Certificate of Outstanding Achievement" honors to all three high schools for the past year. The awards were presented to the Davis School District and hence to the schools from the office of Gov. Norman Bangerter. Breckenridge said all three schools provide classes in creative art, music and dance for the older students and story telling, development de-velopment of social skills and other progressive classes for the younger students. We have infants as young as two months old, as well as preschool pre-school students, most of them children of teachers and faculty of the school district," she said. "However, each school accepts a few youngsters from the communi- ty-" The classes also provide 'on-hands" 'on-hands" training for high school students, Breckenridge explained. She noted that second and third-year third-year child-care students will spend time in the nursery and pre-school classes as part of their academic training. "The second-year students will work primarily in the pre-school program while third-year students will devote their time to learning first-hand how to care for children," Breckenridge said. Viewmont High is in its sixth year of operating a child-care center in its school. It now has two rooms and last year cared for 26 children. Davis High has been operational in child-care training for the past three years, and Woods Cross High is in its second year of the child-care training program. |
