The Infant’s Home is in association with Footprints School, a school for children in Preschool and Primary School through Grade 4. It is our intention to give students graduating from the Infant’s Home priority in placement at our Footprints School campuses. Both the Infant’s Home and Footprints School are dedicated to bettering Cambodia’s educational options by providing affordable quality education.

The Infant's Home was started in 2009 to provide an option for childcare for working parents other than in-home nannies.

 Curriculum

                The Infant's Home uses the Innovations Curriculum, developed in the United States by leading childcare specialists, in conjuction with international standard childcare and developmental guidelines. This curriculum advocates thinking about and planning for everything that can, by the nature of the setting (school vs. home), contribute to child development and the teacher’s relationship with the child and the family.

                 Everything involved in this curriculum works together to benefit the child. Observation and assessment come first, so nothing happens to the child before the teacher has  learned through observation where the child is developmentally.

                        -Teachers organize classrooms in ways that enhance children’s optimal growth and development. 

                        -Materials selected help support the curriculum.

                        -Children learn best through play and active involvement with the people and materials in their environment.

                        -Children are developmentally complex persons each with unique temperament, growth and behavior patterns. Each child grows and develops at his or her own individual rate.

                        -The interactions and the relationships that form between adults and children are the most important components of quality early care and education. Children thrive on supportive, positive, and individualized adult-child interactions. The adult’s role is to stimulate, guide and enhance the development of the whole child.

                        -The best atmosphere for learning is one of acceptance, mutual respect, fairness, consistency, clear limits, appropriate expectations, and encouragement.

                        -Learning is an active process. Children create their own knowledge from the inside out. The environment will provide for active exploration, making free choices, a wide variety of hands-on experiences, and many opportunities to enhance language and early literacy development.

                        -Children’s learning is integrated. They learn through a variety of experiences using all their senses.

                        -Children learn responsibility by making age-appropriate decisions and having an appropriate level of responsibility for their actions. A predictable, organized environment with caring adults, clear expectations, and appropriate consequences supports children’s cognitive, physical, social, and emotional growth.  

                        -The outdoor environment is an extension of the classroom, requiring the same level of adult planning, supervision, and involvement with children. Daily outdoor play gives teachers opportunities to interact with the children; plan and carry out specific learning experiences; and share responsibility for the care of the play area. Constant supervision and concern for child safety shall always be a priority.

Staff

                 Our number one priority for our staff is that they love children. Our staff members have much experience in caring for children, both in the home, and in educational settings. We provide continuous training for all of our staff members in hygiene, care, and child-development, so we can continually update our methods of care and instruction. 

                 In each group, we strive for a low child-teacher ratio, so each child receives the attention and care that he/she needs. There is at least one foreign caregiver per group, with assisting Khmer caregivers. We speak English in all activities at our center, as we desire to provide a good linguistic foundation for children who will be going into an English-speaking education system.