Bright World Preschool

My 4 year old daughter needed to gain some experience in a classroom setting before starting Kinder. I had just moved from the Mt. Diablo school district where preschools were more abundant, so when I started looking in Castro Valley, I realized I was limited to private preschools because my daughter had a condition that wouldn’t be allowed in the public preschools (and space was limited in those anyway). I decided to pick a few schools to visit, and brought her behavioral therapist with. The first school I visited seemed that they would be very accomodating with her disabilities but didn’t seem like a good match for her because of the volume of children they serve (my daughter gets overwhelmed easily and needed to be in a more individualized setting).
On our second school visit, we landed on Bright World’s doorstep and are so glad we did. It was immediately apparent that the school had the ability to provide the one-​on-​one attention my daughter sometimes needs as a child with mild autism. I found it unnecessary to look any further and enrolled her shortly after.
The staff at Bright World have been very accomodating with my daughter’s limitations, and have been an integral part of her development. Since the start of the school year, due to her success at Bright World, she has graduated out of speech therapy and no longer needs behavioral therapy. I owe that to the dedication of the staff, and the wonderful Kindergarden prep curriculum Teacher Kristy and Teacher Shelly provide. They have the perfect balance of play and academics to get the kids used to what will be expected of them in the coming year. The kids do many art projects that get displayed on the walls and eventually sent home to be displayed there. There are field trips, as well as a wonderful Christmas performance where each child gets a chance to perform in front of their family. There are just so many things that I love about this school, I can’t mention them all, but the most important in my book, is that when I drop my daughter off in the morning, I feel like I am leaving her with family. This is truly a family setting, and you can’t put a price on that!