The Bridge School

My son is new at The Bridge School and we couldn’t be happier! Ms Julie, Ms Jackie, and all of the teachers have been great and welcoming. The 2 year old class is the perfect approach of learning through play!

This is a great school! My little girl has been going here for a number of years and all the staff is fantastic. The more people I tell where my girl goes the more people tell me this is where their kids went and they have the same things to say about it.
I’ve had no problems with anything here. Super clean all the time. My girl always wants to stay longer. I wish there were more stars I could give.

My daughter has been attending the Bridge School since she was 2 and is now 5 and she is Thriving! This is such a wonderful school full of of teachers who care about and love the children. They send home art projects daily and my daughter is kindergarten ready. My daughter had a hard time with drop offs and the teachers never acted as if it was an inconvenience to hold her as I left… this happened everyday for 2 years… they would pick her up and hold her in their arms until she was ok and ready to play… wonderful.
It makes me sad to see that someone left a horrible review on here full of things that NEVER happen at the Bridge School. It is clearly a disturbed individual that is out to harm a wonderful business… now back to the good stuff. :)
My daughter was potty trained at the Bridge School and they were extremely patient and helpful. They started working with her before I was ready to train. It made it much easier once I started potty training at home. The school is kept super clean and sanitized. I HIGHLY recommend the Bridge School! I will be sad when my daughter has to leave for kindergarden in the fall but I’m thankful for the time we spent with the wonderful women at the Bridge School.

They say, if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all, but that doesn’t make for a very informative review. Still, I will try to be brief.
Our daughter attended The Bridge School for 5 months. We found the following issues:
— There is a lack of communication between the teachers.
— There is little to no support for toilet training, and no regular toileting habits are practiced.
— There is little to no structure, specifically in the 2’s and 3’s «classroom.»
— When our daughter had an accident (pooped in her underpants), the poop was sent back home to us.
— Our daughter was denied food on three occasions.
We were told that the school does not *do* potty training. Fine. However, once our daughter started wearing «undies», the school continued to put her in diapers, even though she fought the diapering and we told them that she was accident-​free at home. On two occasions, she was put in a diaper that was not changed. When I came to get her at school one afternoon, I could see just by looking at her that she had a thoroughly saturated diaper. The teachers did not even know that she was wearing a diaper. The naptime teacher had not told them. This tells me that there is a lack of communication, as well as a general lack of toileting habits. They should have known she was wearing a diaper because they should have checked out of habit, or they should have brought all the children to the toilet at a particular time (as I know they do at other preschools).
We finally got them to stop putting her in diapers. Then, when she had an accident in which she pooped in her undies, the teachers bagged up the undies with the solid poop and sent them home. While I do not expect the teachers to wash her undies, I do expect them to dump the solid waste into the toilet. Leaving poop tied up in plastic grocery bags is totally unacceptable and unhygienic. (There’s a receptacle outdoors for pooped-​in undies, although our daughter’s undies were most often left in her cubby.)
Our daughter was told that she could not eat her cereal bar (which the teacher deemed «a cookie») until she ate her applesauce. This was not acceptable to us, and we informed the staff of this. However, twice more, our daughter was not allowed to eat her cereal bar until she ate her applesauce. The teacher’s response when we inquired about these incidents was that she had said no such thing. A 3-​year old makes up a lie like, «I didn’t eat my lunch because my tummy hurt;» she does not make up the lie, «I didn’t eat my lunch because Miss X told me I couldn’t eat my cereal bar until I ate my applesauce.»

Hands down, best preschool around. My son spent 3 years here and now that he has moved into Kindergarten the preparation The Bridge School provided shows in his work and social ability. I recommend this school to everyone and will be returning with my second child when she is two.

Our daughter loved her 3 years at the Bridge School. Julie and all the staff are genuinely caring and creative women! I recommend without reservation.