A Place Where Children Belong

Community grows in the moments we share — the everyday ones and the ones marked on the calendar. Both shape how children learn to belong.

A school is its moments.

Throughout the year, school life at Creative Play Corner is filled with shared moments that bring children and families together. They are how children learn to belong.

Creative Play Corner bear mascot dressed as a birthday boy

Shared Moments

Our celebrations are varied — some belong to the child, some to the group, some opened up to the family. Music, movement, and play run through them all, playful on the surface and carefully built underneath.
A large group of CPC children and teachers posing together in front of a colorful decorated classroom wall
Creative Play Corner bear mascot dressed as a birthday boy

Shared Moments

Our celebrations are varied — some belong to the child, some to the group, some opened up to the family. Music, movement, and play run through them all, playful on the surface and carefully built underneath.

Pretend Week

Six weeks the school becomes a story.

We begin with six weeks of imagination.

Pretend Week is community learning through dress-up. Children imagine. They become characters. They live inside imagined worlds. And while they live inside those worlds, the school builds learning into them.

  • Superheroes. Action words come to life.
  • Dinosaurs. Literacy unfolds. Children create characters and settings to tell a dinosaur story.
  • Animals. Science begins. Children learn how body structures change at different heights, how legs vary, how tails add distinction. They begin to see the structure underneath.
  • Royalty. Formal wear and ceremony. The school transforms into an events place. Children learn how to dress for the occasion.
  • Storybook characters. Theater day at CPC. Children arrive as characters from books they love. They give their tickets, watch a musical interactive show prepared by the teachers, and become part of the celebration.
A young child dressed in a colorful costume participating in a Creative Play Corner classroom activity
CPC children and teachers gathered at a Christmas event display wall decorated with student artwork

Our Performances

A morning of school life, shared with parents.

When parents come to school, we want them to feel how school life is lived each day. We sing. We dance. We move. We play. We tell stories.

A CPC performance is not a show. It is the school’s daily life, gathered into a morning and shared with parents.

What we want you to see is the twinkle in your child’s eye as she stands in front of you. Choreography is played. Songs tell stories. What matters is the confidence to share what she has built with her teachers and friends, as a CPC family.

  • At Christmas, we invite parents to be part of the program. Imagine thirty parents holding colored scarves above their heads. The children look out and see a field of color, not a crowd of faces. The song flows.
  • At Graduation, the children take the stage themselves. The teachers tell stories all year. At Graduation, the children tell their own. The storytelling has come full circle.
  • Both are the same moment in different forms. The performance is not for parents to watch. It is for children to be seen, and for everyone to share a single morning of school life together.

Night Out

The night the school becomes a storybook.

Once a year, the school transforms into a theater. Teachers become characters from the story. Children walk in and step into the scene with them.

The decor is the children’s own art. Across the weeks before Night Out, the children make the scene and create the setting.

The teachers act the story. The children step into it. The whole school becomes the exhibit. please replace bold version

Student with teacher doing the night out activity in CPC
A joyful group of CPC children and parents participating in a festive holiday activity together

Parents inside the school

Parents are part of the daily life of Creative Play Corner.

A greeting at the door. A conversation at pick-up. A small note from a teacher about something a child said at the mat that afternoon.

The connection grows in the rhythms of the school day.

We deeply value the trust families place in us. We don’t take it lightly. We never have.

What children carry with them

Children at CPC are seen.

We notice the moments. The excitement, the hesitation, the shy first day, the brave hundredth day. Children come to know themselves through our attention to them.

Every action we take in the early years is the way we treat each child with respect and concern. That is the whole of our work.

Parents may not always be able to put into words what changes in their child here. But they see it. In how the child walks in. In how she leaves.

That feeling stays.

Come visit with your child.

A school’s moments are best felt from inside them.

Limited slots remain across all levels for summer and school year 2026–2027.