Star - Westwood is a center-based child care and early education facility serving the students and families of Los Angeles! As a center, Star - Westwood provides a school-like learning and enrichment environment that gives students a taste of what they’ll experience at more formal school in the years to come. Students at Star - Westwood are provided the socialization opportunities that come with peers of similar ages, the enrichment opportunities that come with a center’s resources and structure, and the community that comes with experienced staff. Star - Westwood at the same time provides a full-time schedule that can be a life-saver for busy parents. Full-time gives you the ability to get everything on your to-do list done - whether that’s at work or at home - and gives your child the structured, deep, in-depth learning environment that’s critical for early education. Children at Star - Westwood benefit from the time to make real, lasting friendships and a schedule that allows them to explore in so many ways! Students at Star - Westwood will also experience an arts-based curriculum that emphasizes how engagement with visual arts, dance, music and storytelling can develop the whole child. Children at an arts-based curriculum make with their hands, learn from staff and peers and take their creations from inception to finish. Through this engagement with the arts, students will develop a unique bend of social, emotional, motor and intellectual skills that will serve them well as they transition to more academic-based environments in the future.