A non-profit agency providing Early Care & Education
programs for children through Kindergarten,
and School Age programs up to age 14!

Infant Openings
As our most recent group of babies prepare to move up into the big-kid world of the Tweenies, we now have openings for more infants. If you know of anyone who will be needing high-quality infant care, please have them contact Janet, our enrollment coordinator.

Summer Activities Update
Wow, summer is flying by! In only a few weeks our ECE children move up to their new classrooms, and our school age children return. But in the meantime we continue to enjoy summer activities. The ECE classes have been loving their new playgrounds, and enjoying water activities with their classmates. The Summer Campers enjoy swimming, outdoor games, and have been on great field trips to Hershey Park, The DE Air Mobility Museum and a ride on the Kalmar Nickel tall ship. They also toured the stars through a visit by a traveling planetarium. They are looking forward to one more big trip, to Dorney Park, and the annual Summer Camp Fun Fair. So there is still lots of fun and learning to be done!

Capital Campaign and Construction News
NDNCC's capital campaign surpassed the goal! We raised $797,335!! We thank the entire Newark area community for helping us achieve this goal!! Our final phase of construction is completed, with new lighting and a new ceiling in the multi-purpose room, updated signage, and our entirely new Toddler through Kindergarten playgrounds!!

NDNCC Annual Meeting
Our corporate annual meeting was held on February 25th, 2010, with dinner and entertainment provided. Our children enjoyed displaying their works of art for our annual art show, and staff members received service awards for 1, 10 and even 20 years of employment with NDNCC. Also, there were raffles of family fun bags full of things to do together as a family. Our music teacher, Mr. Brian, led the appreciative families in the musical activities that the children learn in their classes, and performed with another U of D music student.

Thank you volunteers!
NDNCC is honored to have again been chosen by PNC and DuPont to have their employees volunteer their time here. They have helped us with the many tasks involved in a center of our size. Volunteers have recently spread mulch on our playgrounds, performed landscape trimming, powerwashed our building, and painted many of our hallways and classrooms. These volunteer hours save us thousands of dollars that we can then redirect into the programming for our children. So thanks again to all the wonderful volunteers!

Science Night at Delaware Museum of Natural History
NDNCC's Preschool, PreKindergarten and Kindergarten children and their families have enjoyed three evenings at the Delaware Museum of Natural History. These exciting trips were provided courtesy of the PNC Grow Up Great grant that partners our agency with the museum and three other centers. Our teachers have received training in incorporating science teaching into their curriculums and have begun using the museum provided materials in their classrooms. Also, our children have attended two daytime field trips to the museum, to explore space systems and dinosaur exhibits. NDNCC thanks PNC and the DNHM for these exciting additions to our program.

NDNCC Wine Tasting Fundraiser
This year's Wine Tasting fundraiser, held on Friday, December 18th, 2009 at Deerfield Wines, was a great success. It was a fun evening of fine wine, fine music and fine comaraderie all for a donation of only $20. A silent auction of many wonderful donated items also was held, and the money raised from the event helped us in our mission to be able to provide high quality services to all children regardless of their family income level. We hope to see you there again this year!

City of Newark Outdoor Concerts
NDNCC once again is sponsoring the City of Newark's outdoor spring concerts. We will be providing treats at the family oriented concerts in May and June. We hope to see you there. NDNCC also sponsored the showing of Polar Express on Dec. 27th in downtown Newark. Thanks to all who attended these events. They are a wonderful opportunity for NDNCC to give back to the Newark community.