Important dates:
Play Learn follows the Fayetteville Public School Calendar

Pre-registration for Fall 2008:
*Play Learn fmailies already enrolled - March 3-14, 2008
*New families (FBC Members)-begins March 24, 2008
New families (general community)-begins April 1, 2008

ABOUT OUR SCHOOL

Play Learn School is a ministry of First Baptist Church of Fayetteville Arkansas. Play Learn operates under the umbrella of the church and is supported in many areas by the church.
Play Learn School began in September of 1970 as a mission project of the Women’s Missionary Union of First Baptist Church. It has grown from a Mother’s Day Out program designed to meet the needs of the church family to a preschool serving the church family as well as the community of Fayetteville.
Play Learn School is governed by a nominated committee made up of nine women from First Baptist Church. The committee also includes the Play Learn director, a treasurer and a First Baptist staff representative.

PURPOSE
Our purpose is to provide a positive, fulfilling learning experience for pre-school children in a safe and secure Christian environment. Our goal is that this experience will help all children grow and develop under the care of our trained and qualified teachers.
We believe that children learn in many ways and we hope to offer a curriculum that will offer those opportunities. We will use the Weekday Early Education curriculum. WEE Learn is a Christian curriculum developed by LifeWay. The most important goal of the WEE learn curriculum is to provide a program that allows children to grow and develop as Jesus did, “in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and man.” (Luke 2:52)
WEE Learn uses a learning center type of approach that provides age appropriate activities that relate to a specific unit of study. These resources are designed to provide hands-on activities to encourage each child to develop mentally, physically, spiritually, and socially/emotionally at her/his own pace.

ADMISSION GUIDELINES
Play Learn has classes for children from the age of six weeks to pre-Kindergarten age.
Pre-registration for the up-coming fall classes begins in March with children already enrolled in Play Learn having first opportunity for enrollment. Enrollment is then offered to Fayetteville’s First Baptist church members and then registration is open for other interested families.
Registration forms must be completed and a non-refundable $75 registration fee paid before a child is considered enrolled.
Children attending Play Learn must keep all immunizations records up to date with a copy provided for the school to be kept in the child’s file with their health form.
When the classes are filled families may place their child on our waiting list. The registration fee is not required to be placed on the waiting list. Names on the waiting list will be called in the order they have been placed on the list when an open spot is available.

All enrollment decisions are made by the Play Learn director with consideration given to balancing classes and maintaining Arkansas Licensing staff/child ratios.

TUITION POLICIES
Play Learn fees are due the 10th of each month.
Fees are the same each month regardless of the number of days in the month or days attended in the month with the exception of August which will be pro-rated.
Please remember that missed days cannot be exchanged or “traded” for other days.
Two weeks notice is requested if it becomes necessary to withdraw your child from school.
Play Learn accepts cash or checks as payment for fees. Please make your checks payable to Play Learn School. If you would like a receipt, please let the office know at time of payment.
Fees include one time registration fee(non-refundable) of $75 to be paid at the time of registration, a one time supply fee of $50 due at the first of the new school year for all children (except for the youngest babies) and a one time laundry fee of $10 also due at the first of the year for all babies and children who nap.

The monthly tuition fees are as follows:

Non-FBC Members:

Drop-in fees: 8:30-12:00($14) 12:-2:30($8) 8:30-2:30($20)

Cost/day based on 20-session days a month (4 weeks).

Rates for FBC Members

Drop-in fees: 8:30-12:00($13) 12:-2:30($7) 8:30-2:30($19)

Contact Carolyn Tanneberger