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​Angela roy

Angela is the owner/operator of Serendipity Early Years Centre. Serendipity was in operation for nine years downtown Kelowna, and just recently moved to Lake Country BC in her home. Angela has been in the Early Childhood Education field for just over 21 years, graduating from the Early Childhood Education Program at Okanagan College in 2001. From there she worked in a variety of child care centres: 3-5 group day care, infant and toddler centre, preschool, Aboriginal Preschool, multi-age child care, family child care and StrongStart. 

Angela is a wife and a mother to two children, and she is also a Grandma to two amazing grandchildren.

Outside of preschool, you can find her spending time with her family or working on her hobbies, which include sewing, scrapbooking, crafting, reading, baking and gardening. 

Just recently Angela has started presenting professional development training workshops to Educators on Outdoor Play, highlighting the amazing benefits of outdoor play not only for children, however, Educators and parents too! She has also started publishing articles in the Play Outdoors Magazine reflecting on the value of outdoor play, outdoor activities, the importance of documentation in outdoor play and photos of preschool children at Serendipity engaging in outdoor play.

Education and Training:

Angela attends several training opportunities each year, averaging about 30 hours each year. 

A few highlights:

Reclaiming our Students- Why Children are more anxious, aggressive, and shut down than ever -- and what we can do about it- Hannah Beach, Tamara Neufeld Strijack- 12 sessions for a total of 18 hours

Lisa Murphy on Play and Being Child Centred- June/July 2021- 4 hours of training


Teacher Tom Play Summit- June 2021- over 10 hours of training

Free To Play Summit- July 2021- over 10 hours of training 


Circle of Security - Early intervention program for parents and children- May/June 2020- 16 hours of training

Annual Early Childhood Educators of BC Conference- May 2020- 6 hours

Teacher Tom: Speaking To Children So They Can Think & Educating Citizen’s Through Play- May 2020 - 4 hours


Annual Early Childhood Educators of BC Conference- April 2019-  14 hours of training

Dr. Deborah MacNamara- Heart Matters: What to do with Children's Feelings, Making Sense of Kids Through Developmental Science- Fall 2018- 8 hours

5 day Canadian Study Tour in Scotland- February 2018

Outdoor Play Training- Canadian Child Care Federation- 2017- 36 hours of training

Heart Mind Conference- Dalai Lama Centre for Peace and Education- October 2016

KHT Montessori Training Certificate Course- December 2014- November 2015


"Best Choices" Ethical Training- Fall 2015

St. John's Ambulance- Emergency First Aid- Community Care- August 2020 

Food Safe- 2018​

Memberships:

Early Childhood Educators Of BC- 2007-present
http://www.ecebc.ca/​

Early Childhood Educators of BC Okanagan Branch- 2007- present  (Branch Treasurer- 2014-present)
http://www.ecebcok.ca/​

Canadian Child Care Federation- 2007- present
http://www.cccf-fcsge.ca/​
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Kelowna Child Care Society- 2012- present
http://www.kelownachildcare.com/

Penticton Child Care Society- 2018- present


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