Registration
Children wearing diapers or pull-ups
Exceptionally, the centre is able to accept children who are not fully potty-trained but who are expected to be in the weeks following their registration.
Location
The daycare is located in a portable unit behind École La Mission in St. Albert on its property (46 Heritage Dr, St Albert, AB T8N 7J5)
Schedule
The centre is open Monday thru Friday from 7:15am to 6pm
2024/2025 Calendar
Meals and snacks
Meals are not included. Parents must bring a healthy lunch containing no nuts or seafood. Two healthy snacks are provided by the daycare.
Grants and Subsidies
The Affordability Grant
Allocated based on the child’s age and automatically deducted from the monthly fees (Reduction column) in the table of fees.
The amount of the Affordability Grant is decided by the government. This is offered based on the number of days registered and the payable fees. A child registered part-time therefore benefits from the part-time Affordability Grant while a child registered full-time benefits from the full-time Affordability Grant.
This is not based on the number of hours the child is in the program but based on the number of days per week, and therefore the payable fees. Please refer to the fees table below to know what is considered full- and part-time.
Additional Family Subsidy
To receive the additional family subsidy, the family must apply online once their registration is confirmed. See below for more information. The subsidy is based on the family’s annual revenue, the parents’ situation and the number of hours completed in the center.
The amount offered for this is not fixed as it is based on the child’s attendance which is declared to the government each month, pulled from the hours entered in the center’s attendance tracking system.
ATTENTION, in your application, you must enter the official program name of your child’s program as well as its program number:
OFFICIAL PROGRAM NAME : Centre d’experience prescolaire L’Aventure
PROGRAM NUMBER : 80002048
***It is very important to enter the correct information for each child, otherwise your child will not be declared in the correct program and adjustments will have to be made, which may prolong the process.***
To apply and for more information on how the subsidy works, please consult the Government of Alberta’s website by clicking on the button below.
Fees (starting January 1st 2024)
| 3 to 5 years (5 days/week)* | |
| Current fees | 1,030 $ per month |
| Subsidies (reduction) | 626 $ per month |
| 2022 Fees | 404 $ per month |
| Deposit for preschool (reimbursable when you withdraw from the program provided we receive 30 days’ notice according to our policy) | 200 $ |
| Registration fee | 50 $ |
| NSF fee | 45 $ |
| Late payment fee | 45 $ per week |
On-demand service
The on-demand service is currently available. That is to say that we are ready to accommodate your child for a single day on demand.
| Age group | Fee |
| 12 to 19 months | 55 $ per day |
| 20 to 35 months | 50 $ per day |
| 3 to 5 years | 45 $ per day |
Discount
Effective April 1st 2021:
We offer a 10% discount to the registration fee of a 3rd and 4th child from the same family who is registered to the CEPP preschool program. The discount does not apply if the 3rd/4th child is registered to the out-of-school service.
Lateness fee
In the case of parents who arrive late after opening hours, a fee of 1$ per minute late will be billed and payable on the next invoice.
Admission criteria
Any parent who wishes to register their child in the CEPP daycare must fulfill at least one of the following criteria (according to Article 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms):
- Their first language learned and still understood is French.
- They received their primary education in French.
- One of their children received or is receiving their primary or secondary education in French.
To see our admissions policy (in French only), please consult this page.
Rights of francophones in Alberta
To know more about the right to a francophone education in Alberta, please watch these two videos:
What is Article 23?
Who can register their child to a francophone school in Alberta?