Are you looking for a great Developmental Preschool, Pre-K or private Kindergarten program in the Orange County area? Come browse around. You've found what you've been looking for! Hilltop is a non-profit, parent participation preschool where both parents and children learn and play together. Under the guidance of qualified early childhood educators, your child's inherent desire to learn will be nurtured.
Our play-based, Reggio-inspired curriculum addresses children's social and emotional development as well as their growth. Hilltop kids learn to live fully, joyfully and ultimately become self-motivated problem solvers with an abiding curiosity about the world. We have a wonderful facility, a beautiful play yard, terrific teachers, and a supportive community of warm, loving, caring parents like you.
Our play-based, Reggio-inspired curriculum addresses children's social and emotional development as well as their growth. Hilltop kids learn to live fully, joyfully and ultimately become self-motivated problem solvers with an abiding curiosity about the world. We have a wonderful facility, a beautiful play yard, terrific teachers, and a supportive community of warm, loving, caring parents like you.
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Hilltop Preschool is a special place, nestled quietly in Fountain Valley, California, where parents and children play together and learn together. Sharing school experiences with their parents, the children see the results of adults working together to accomplish mutual goals. Children also learn self-reliance, communication skills, and respect for others.
Our philosophy of early childhood education begins with a school environment of unqualified love, warmth, acceptance and understanding that each child is a unique individual. The philosophy at Hilltop is based on the belief that self-esteem is the foundation upon which all learning rests. Young children develop it naturally when they believe in themselves, their abilities and their worth.
Hilltop has long followed a child-centric philosophy in its approach to early childhood education. This philosophy encompasses a play-based curriculum and the belief that a child's school environment should be one of unqualified love, warmth, acceptance and respect. Recently, the staff and parents have explored a similar education philosophy that is known as the Reggio Emilia Approach.
Hilltop is staffed by fully qualified, enthusiastic and caring professionals all of whom have extensive training and background in the field of child development, possess CPR/ First Aid Certification, and are active participants in professional workshops in order to enhance their knowledge, growth and development as teachers guiding young children and their parents.
The physical environment at Hilltop encompasses a wide variety of play equipment; materials for art, science, language enrichment and more curriculum than could possibly be explained here; animals; a vast outside playground with garden centers; and much, much more. We are certainly fortunate to have a lot of equipment and the space in which to house it.
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Jamie Green
Feb 20, 2015
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I can honestly say that Hilltop Preschool has changed my life and that of my family's in so many incredibly positive ways. Hilltop is so much more than a preschool that it's hard to put into words the value of this truly invaluable program. It is a place where children and parents learn about eachother together. A place where each child thrives and… each family is supported through a philosophy that reaches far beyond that of a typical preschool. It is a community of teachers, children and parents that work together to provide a rich learning, developmental environment, all the while honoring
Tami N. Antonio Meade
Feb 06, 2015
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Hilltop is an amazing environment for children and parents alike.
Children get to explore and learn in a safe, thriving space. Parents have the opportunity to be working parents to learn positive tools to gain a stronger bond of respect, communication, and love for the individual child and the family as a whole.
If Hilltop could deepen their roots… into society, the world would have so much more love in it. I recommend Hilltop to all my friends with small children. It's the best choice we made for our eldest first year of school. We love you Hilltop.
Children get to explore and learn in a safe, thriving space. Parents have the opportunity to be working parents to learn positive tools to gain a stronger bond of respect, communication, and love for the individual child and the family as a whole.
If Hilltop could deepen their roots… into society, the world would have so much more love in it. I recommend Hilltop to all my friends with small children. It's the best choice we made for our eldest first year of school. We love you Hilltop.
Shannon Hendriks
Jun 13, 2014
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Tanya Charfauros
Jun 08, 2014
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Hilltop is a safe place for your child to explore, experiment, learn and grow with confidence. It's a place for them to be who they are the learn new skills. The teachers are experts in child development and truly love the children individually for who they are and what THEY bring to the classroom. The teachers are vested in helping nurture each… child's growth through problem solving by respecting each other AND themselves. Because Hilltop is a parent cooperative school, I've been able to stay connected to my children's learning AND play a role in the growth of the Hilltop community. It
