Friendship Valley Elementary School

ABC Care Center – Friendship Valley Elementary School

A MD EXCELS Level 3 center and three-time nationally accredited program, ABC Care Center at Friendship Valley offers self-selected and organized team activities in language arts, creative arts and STEM, allowing children to pursue projects and topics of interest to them. Our program also provides planned activities to assist children with social and emotional development. Students enjoy supervised free play and team games in the large school gymnasium, outdoor playground and blacktop areas. Our extended afternoon hours give children more time to experience all that ABC Care has to offer including more complex art and science projects and extra time outdoors for more active time.

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The NAA Standards for School-Age Quality specifically address the indicators of quality programs reflected in current research. Examples include meeting the developmentally different needs of youth, 5-14 years, involving children and youth in program planning, providing positive interactions between children and youth and adults, and ensuring a safe and challenging environment for children and youth in and out of school time.

This Location Meets COA Standards
COA's After School Standards represent a merging of NAA's standards and COA's 8th Edition Standards, and include three different sections of standards: After School Program Administration (ASP-AM), After School Human Resources (ASP-HR), and After School Programming and Services (ASP-PS). The set of standards are based on generally-accepted elements of best practice, outcomes-oriented, effective in advancing quality, and responsive to the unique needs and diversity of after school programs. COA's standards are grounded in a long-standing, widely held belief that children, youth, and families benefit when a program enhances its capacity to achieve its mission and validate its impact. “Children and youth who participate in After School and Youth Development programs gain the personal, social, emotional, and educational assets needed to support healthy development, increase well-being, and facilitate a successful transition through childhood, adolescence, and into adulthood.” Council of Accreditation Core Purpose

Please ring the doorbell labeled ABC Daycare Doorbell and we will open the Door labeled 1. When you leave, please exit through any other door at the front of the building.

Ashley Appler

Mrs. Ashley currently has her Bachelors of Science of Elementary Education degree from Stevenson University. She has 6 years of experience with ABC Care and 5 years of experience in the elementary classroom, teaching 3^rd and 4^th grades. In her free time, she likes to read books even ones in the process of being published, hike or enjoy nature on a nice day, and go to the park or on playdates with her daughter, Skyler.
Katelyn Clark