Great New Beginnings Early Education Center

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This center has a strong focus on academics and learning in a fun and creative environment that allows children to blossom without them knowing that they are following a curriculum.

In the before and after program there is daily individual focus on homework.. Kids are allowed to explore and play and have a plethora of opportunities to learn on their own without instruction due to the scholastic environment that they are exposed to. My youngest child is a toddler and I love tuning in to see him playing with different toys and enjoy that there is a mixture of arts, crafts, reading, and problem solving that he is involved in daily. The ratios are wonderful. Sometimes I notice that there are extra teachers in a room as opposed to not enough which happens in a lot of facilities. It is apparent that the administration of this facility plans for staff absences. The communication with administration and classroom teachers is amazing! I have received phone calls, emails, and notes to keep me informed. The staff are consistently friendly and really keep their personal lives out of the workplace. No one is ever disgruntled or has a negative demeanor. Even when students are crying or it seems to get hectic. They are trained and know how to handle it. The environment has really helped me to provide my children with structure during a difficult time in our personal lives. Honestly, this center has given me piece of mind and set me at ease to know that my children are in good hands. As a mother, that feeling allows me to go to work and provide for my family without any hesitation because it is easy to find a safe environment for your children; but finding a center that your kids are happy about, where they hate to leave and look forward to attending, that is a rare thing indeed. Thank you Great New Beginnings for being AWESOME, AMAZING, and providing SUPERB FAMILY service! From the costume characters that come in for free every month to the breakfast for $1 a day per child...They are simply amazing and have very inexpensive field trips that are fun and exciting for the kids. I would ask them only to please just keep up all of the good work! I feel so blessed that a coworker referred me to their center. I wouldn't dare call it a daycare because that is almost an insult since this center is truly a learning school that has private school level learning and very involved and educated staff members and teachers.

My daughter and absolutely adore GNB! Every single staff member we've met has been exceptional. I've seen the greatest change in my 14 month old daughter since we started coming here.

I gave it 4 stars because I had just once incident that bothered me but other than that I love Great new beginnings!! The staff are very friendly and understanding. The front office staff always says good morning, hello and even have a great night when face to face. They even know your child by name when coming in or leaving which shows they care who you are. That's important for me. The webcam is especially great for new mom's who are uneasy about leaving their child for the day. I must be on it all the time and each time I see the teachers care and love the children. The one incident I had was when i came to pick up my child, she was in the swing with a knited blanket over her face. It was a teacher who is only there in the afternoon's when I pick her up. When i talked to the office about it, they told me all teachers would be addressed about this and it wouldnt happen again. I also love their open parent policy. I would visit my baby every day on lunch and they understood and encouraged my visits! I love this place!

This childcare center is the absolute worse. The turn over rate of the teachers is astronomical. Compared to the other centers and what is offered it is over priced. Great New Beginnings needs to hire qualified staff to teach the children. More times than I wish to count have I walked in my childs classroom to find words misspelled..is that what my child is being taught?smh. I made a mistake in enrolling my child in camp last year and was quite embarrassed afterward of what Great New Beginnings defined as "camp". Will not recommend this center, glad to have transferred my child out of this place.

Allison is absolutely right. This is a terrible place, with a high school mentality. Glad our baby is no longer there.

Heard a lot from people. Buts its a total disappointment for us. We were expecting a lot from the teachers and other staff, especially from the room #7 teachers (GnB St. Andrews Bear DE), they are absolutely pathetic. They are not caring and loving towards to children at all, they show no affection for their students. They are not bothered of children crying for long time, cleanliness of the children. They are not putting their efforts on their students and least bothered about parents satisfaction. We expect our children to learn love, affection, kindness etc... apart from the other educational stuff, but with these kind of teachers as an example we are afraid of our children becoming the other way.



The front office/Admin staff is again matter of concern, they will try to be as good as they can till you get your kid enrolled in the center and once that is done they start behaving like aliens. Front office/Admin staff are supposed to be customer friendly but these folks are not bothered to throw a smile or drop a hi on entering the center which comes absolutely free and for which they don't have to pay anything. Moreover they turn their faces on the other way, it looks like as though they are doing favors to us and we are not paying the fees for our children.

We hope the management will take some necessary steps to improve the standards and focus on parents and children satisfaction centric. GnB still has some good and quality teachers at the center and their kitchen staff is good as well.



Disappointed parents of affected child.

Wow - I'm really shocked to here this. My son has been with Great New Beginnings since 2005 and LOVES it. He's now 11 so I'm sure if there were things like this going on he would tell me immediately. Were you there long? Did you speak with the administrators? I have had an excellent experience with all of the staff and find them all to be really receptive.

I feel the owner/state needs to make sure that the people they hire or allow to work as teachers/care assistants are qualified to provide care for all children.

There are going to be some kids that will have a bad day just as adults...so if a 3-4 year old child is having a tantrum or difficulty adjusting to the new surroundings it doesn't mean that the have add/adhd which was suggested to me about my child. I was told that maybe my child should see a doctor for testing!!!!!!!!!! Totally outrageous! They are quick to make that assumption and not willing to come up with a plan of action. I am happy to say that my child has adjusted very well at the new school and is a very bright, intelligent, well rounded kid working with seasoned professionals who are willing to go that extra mile to help those precious children that will one day shape our world and hopefully operate a better day care than this one!