Before and after-school care in Burnaby
Royal Roots Early Learning is planned for Gilmore Place, Level 3, in North Burnaby, Burnaby, BC. It is for children up to age 12. Opening is planned for 2027. The centre is not open. Licensing status will be published before opening. Before and after-school care is planned for school-age children, up to age 12, not for high school. On the site this age group is called Bright Roots, ages 6 to 12. The program is not open.
Who this care is planned for
This program is planned for elementary-age children who need a place before school, after school, or both, when Royal Roots opens at Gilmore Place. North Burnaby has several elementary schools near Gilmore Place. The site says the care is designed to coordinate with nearby schools. Optional pickup and drop-off is planned, and the routes, schools, and times are not confirmed.
The age range stops at 12. Royal Roots is not describing a high-school program. Younger siblings would be in infant and toddler care or preschool, which are separate planned programs.
What after-school time is planned to include
The planned base is a safe room, a snack routine that has not yet been specified, time to unwind, and a personalized learning plan that continues from earlier years. Play stays at the centre of the approach. Homework support is not described as a guaranteed tutoring block. Tutoring is listed on the site as an optional enrichment, separate from the care place.
Optional enrichment for this age includes a STEM academy with project work in technology, robotics, programming, math, science, and language, plus music, arts, movement, and wellbeing through partner organizations. Those classes are planned as choices a family can add. They are not included in a published fee, because no fee is published. A family does not have to take enrichment to join the waitlist for care.
Weekend sessions, camps, and a parents' evening are also planned under the flexible programs on the site. Availability of drop-off hours is still being finalized with licensing. Royal Roots will publish hours before opening and will not treat a draft hour as a promise.
Schools, transport, and the SkyTrain
Gilmore SkyTrain station is the landmark families can use today. The centre is planned for Level 3 of Gilmore Place, next to that station. A street number is not published, so this page does not give one. A map search for Gilmore Place, Burnaby, is on the contact page.
School pickup and drop-off, where it is offered, will be described with the schools it covers before opening. Until that list exists, the honest statement is that coordination with nearby North Burnaby elementary schools is the plan, and the details are not published.
Fees, ratios, and the fact that it is not open
Royal Roots has not published a street number, a phone number, opening hours, a fee schedule, or staff-to-child ratios. Those details will be published before opening.
School-age group sizes in a licensed program follow British Columbia's Child Care Licensing Regulation. Royal Roots will publish its ratios before opening. It is not stating a ratio on this page.
Affordable Child Care Benefit and other provincial child care programs are explained by the Province of British Columbia. Eligibility depends on the family and on whether a centre is approved to participate. Royal Roots has not confirmed participation and has not published a school-age fee. There is no funded-place offer on this page.
Licensing status will be published before opening. The before and after-school program cannot accept children until the centre is licensed and open. The waitlist is the way to hear when that changes. It is free and it is not a contract.